 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many Perfons, that Chriftianity is not fo much as a Subject of Inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, difcovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the prefent Age, this were an... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1765 - 488 pages
...together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many Perions, that Chriftianity is not fo much as a Subject of Inquiry ; but that it is, now...fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the prefent Age, this were an agreed Point, among all People of Difcernment ; and nothing remained, but... | |
 | 1869
...state of religion which he then saw around him : — " 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 as if nothing remained, bat to set it up as a principal... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...he, ' 1 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,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...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... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1807 - 612 pages
...be said of orthodoxy : — " It is come — to be taken for granted, by many persons, that orthodoxy is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that...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... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1807 - 662 pages
...suspect of exaggerating the fact: •" It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by inarw- persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, untv at fcneth, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they trtat it. at Mr. Whitefield soon... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christianity - 1807 - 508 pages
...was tending fast to infidelity. " It is come," says bishop Butler, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 556 pages
...that chriftianity is not fo much as a fubjedl of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, difcovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it, as if, in the prelent age, this were an agreed point among all people of difcernment ; and nothing remained but to... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 432 pages
...prevalence of infidelity, is very remarkable. " It is come," says he " 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... 
