...gave him excellent opportunities of observation : and his testimony is as follows. " It is come, 1 "know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons,...subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, dis" covered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present - age, this were...

...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 accordvoL. ix. 32 ingly...

...Analogy to prop the tottering faith which he said, in his preface, had come to be considered no longer a subject of inquiry, " but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ;" and Warburton wrote his " Divine Legation." Churchmen were found among the master-minds of the English...

...which, though there is nothing but what appears to me of some real weight, and therefore, of grep.t importance ; yet he will observe several things which...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of mquiry ; but that it is. now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it,...

...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...

...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...

...the current opinions of the class of men to which they belonged. As Butler says, it had come, he knew not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity was not so much as a subject of inquiry, but had at length been discovered to be fictitious. Moreover,...

...analogy as an appeal to men who will not acknowledge any other ground. He says in the advertisement, ' It is come, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, ' that Christianity is now not so much as a subject of inquiry ; ' but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious....

...appeal to men who will not acknowledge any other ground. He says in the advertisement, ' It is come, ' 1 know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, ' that Christianity is now not so much as a subject of inquiry ; ' but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious....

...when tie said, that " it had come to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject for inquiry, but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious ;" and he wrote his great work for the purpose of arguing the reasonableness of the Christian religion even...