 | T. Timpson - 1847 - 714 страници
...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 602 страници
...p. 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...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 - 380 страници
...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,... | |
 | Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - 92 страници
...was 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...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 страници
...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...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 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - 84 страници
...as a subjeet of inquiry, but that it is now at length diseovered to be fietitious : and aeeordingly they treat it, as if in the present age this were an agreed point among ALL PEOPLE or DISCERNMENT, and that nothing remained, but to set it up as a prineipal subjeet for mirth and ridieule... | |
 | 1850 - 600 страници
...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, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 страници
...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, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that... | |
 | 1851 - 652 страници
...what a deplorably low state religion had fallen, he says: "It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is...discernment, and nothing remained, but to set it up as a prineipal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted... | |
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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. 
