 | James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 156
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 698
...century, when, as lîishop Butler said in his "Analogy," " it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not...they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal... | |
 | Abel Stevens, George Peck - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...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,... | |
 | T. Timpson - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...invaluable "Analogy of Religion," published in l736, says — " It is come, I .know not how, to be taken for granted by many 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 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not...treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal... | |
 | Author of Your place in Church is empty - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 1074
...about twenty years later, Bishop Butler writes : — " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not...they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...531. 1 [Bishop Butler, writing in the year 1736. says: "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not...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 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so...they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but. to set it up as a principal... | |
 | Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 92
...rapidly verging to infidelity. ' It has come,' says Bishop Butler, ' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not...they treat it, as if in the present age this were an agreed point among ALL PEOPLE OF DISCERNMENT, and that nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal... | |
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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... 
