 | Abel Stevens, George Peck - 1847 - 368 Seiten
...in the very extreme of decline. " It has come 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,... | |
 | 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,...agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
 | 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...agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way... | |
 | 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,...discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they tre-:u it, as if, in the presen rnent; and nothing remain as it were, by way of repr world." Advertisement,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1849 - 380 Seiten
...in the very extreme of decline. " It has come 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,... | |
 | 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...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but. to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
 | Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - 92 Seiten
...the whole kingdom of England was rapidly verging to infidelity. ' It has come,' says Bishop Butler, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons,...agreed point among ALL PEOPLE OF DISCERNMENT, and that nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject for mirth and ridicule by way of reprisals... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 146 Seiten
...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 it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On the contrary, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 612 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 it is now at length discovered to be fictitious On the contrary, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
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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... 
