...myself to the 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 much a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And assuredly, they...

...philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. 80 that in the language of Butler, " it had come to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of investigation, but that it is now at length, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat...

...gave him excellent opportunities of observation : and his testimony is as follows. " It is come, 1 "know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons,...subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, dis" covered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present - age, this were...

...philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. So that, in the language of Butler, ' it had come to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of investigation, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious, and accordvoL. ix. 32 ingly...

...Analogy to prop the tottering faith which he said, in his preface, had come to be considered no longer a subject of inquiry, " but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ;" and Warburton wrote his " Divine Legation." Churchmen were found among the master-minds of the English...

...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 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...

...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 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...

...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,...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of mquiry ; but that it is. now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it,...

...not how, to be talen for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so ranch as a subject for inquiry ; but that it is now, at length, discovered...accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age/* — (last century) — "this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remain»...

...the current opinions of the class of men to which they belonged. As Butler says, it had come, he knew not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity was not so much as a subject of inquiry, but had at length been discovered to be fictitious. Moreover,...