...we are only following the footsteps of the profound author of the "Analogy," who finding it, he knew not how, " to be taken for granted, by many persons,...Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry," set himself, in the first instance, to prove " that it is not, however, so clear a case that there...

...philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. So that in the language of Butler, " it had come to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of investigation, but that it is now at length, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat...

...against heresy, BO heresy now pleaded prescription against Christianity. " It has come," says Butler, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is net so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And...

...against heresy, BO heresy now pleaded prescription against Christianity. " It has come," says Butler, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is net so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And...

...However, the proper force of the following treatife lies in the whole general analogy confidered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many perfons, that Chriftianity is not fo much as a fubject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length,...

...Still, it is only an analogy of uncertainty, and, indeed, it is only in that light that Butler uses it. "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. . . On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved, that...

...extremity of decline. "It- has come," he says, "to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly it is treated as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment,...

...disregard for it in the generality of cases." In the advertisement to his Analogy he further says: " It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is riot so much a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious, and, accordingly,...

...were unwittingly stirring. " It is come, I know not how," he says in his introductory Advertisement, "to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity...it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. . . . Thus much, at / least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any reasonable...

...working classes in England; licentiousness and infidelity of the higher. Bishop Butler wrote, in 1736, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not » much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly,...