 | 1850 - 642 Seiten
...characteristic hut deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work : — " It is come," says he, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much a suhject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. * * * On the contrary,... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 Seiten
...: ' That profaneness and impiety are grown bold and open.' " ' " Bishop Butler writes, in 1736 : ' It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - 156 Seiten
...least among the higher classes. Bishop Butler says of the state of things in his own time, " it is come to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a matter of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and, accordingly, they... | |
 | 1847 - 698 Seiten
...appeared at a critical pertod in the eighteenth century, when, as lîishop Butler said in his "Analogy," " it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as... | |
 | T. Timpson - 1847 - 714 Seiten
...Bishop Butler, in the preface to his invaluable "Analogy of Religion," published in l736, says — " It is come, I .know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 Seiten
...However, the proper force of the following Treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it,... | |
 | Author of Your place in Church is empty - 1849 - 1074 Seiten
...state into which we are unhappily fallen." And about twenty years later, Bishop Butler writes : — " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 602 Seiten
...1783. f Calamy 's Life and Times, vol. ii. p. 531. 1 [Bishop Butler, writing in the year 1736. says: "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now, at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they tre-:u it,... | |
 | 1849 - 600 Seiten
...characteristic but deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work: — ' It is come,' says he, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons ' that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry, but ' that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On ' the contrary,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 Seiten
...However, the proper force of the following treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as... | |
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It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were... 
