 | Joseph Butler - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 682
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...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 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... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...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 as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious On the contrary,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...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 as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious On the contrary,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 146
...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 as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On the contrary,... | |
 | Welsh Calvinistic Methodists - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 92
...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, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious : and accordingly... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 860
...society at large. Bishop Butler, in the preface to his celebrated " Analogy," has the following remarks: "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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...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,...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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...myself to tho clergy." The next extract is from Bishop Butler, who wrote thus in the year 1736 :— " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so mueh a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And assuredly,... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...work, the Analogy, as showing to 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 not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly... | |
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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... 
