 | 1857 - 540 pages
...transcribe a few lines from Bishop Butler, who within six months of Whitefield's ordination wrote thus : " 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...than that in which Bishop Butler, in the preface to his great defence of revealed religion, 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,... | |
 | 1858 - 592 pages
...Analogy must be pleaded in mitigation of sentence against even Gibbon's disparagement of our faith. ' 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... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 pages
...Still, it is only an analogy of uncertainty, and, indeed, it is only in that light that Butler uses it. "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... | |
 | Samuel Hobart Winkley - 1858 - 406 pages
...disregard for it in the generality of cases." In the advertisement to his Analogy he further says: " It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is riot so much a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered... | |
 | 1859 - 712 pages
...working classes in England; licentiousness and infidelity of the higher. Bishop Butler wrote, in 1736, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not » much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered... | |
 | Alfred Ollivant - 1860 - 94 pages
...Caroline a copy of his celebrated work, " The Analogy," &c., in the advertisement to which he 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 of inquiry, but that it is, now at length, discovered... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 478 pages
...would have upheld the same" .... He would do as Bishop Butler did, when he observed as follows : — "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... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 456 pages
...would have upheld the same" .... He would do as Bishop Butler did, when he observed as follows : — "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... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - 1862 - 196 pages
...gone out, or hardly a spark lived amid the embers, when Butler penned that melancholy sentence : " 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... | |
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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. 
