 | 1869
...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 subject of mirth and ridicule ; as it •were by way of reprisal, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of this world."... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...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....it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1807 - 612 pages
...— to be taken for granted, by many persons, that orthodoxy is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious....it up as a principal subject of mirth and Ridicule, as it were by way of re prisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."* Or... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...to be fictitious ; and 'accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreement among all people of discernment, and nothing remained...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way of reprisals for its having so lon;j interrupted the pleasures of the world." There... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 432 pages
...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 subject of " mirth and ridicule ; as it were, by way of reprisals for its " having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1812 - 424 pages
...it, as if in the present age, this were an agreed point among ALL PEOPLE or DisCERXMF.NT ; and that nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule ; as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Preface... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 350 pages
...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 principal " subject of mirth and ridicule ; as it were, by way of re" reprisals for its having so leng interrupted the pleasures of <* the world."... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...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....it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...-, and accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, tins were an agreement among all penpie of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. " There... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1816 - 566 pages
...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...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule; as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.* Such... | |
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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... 
