 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 pages
...length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
 | 1850 - 622 pages
...were not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it was now at length discovered to be fictitious, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.' In the leading periodical of that day — ' The Edinburgh Hevicw'— religion, as found in the national... | |
 | 1851 - 860 pages
...length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." The very circumstance that such a work should be called for to prove the truth of Christianity shows... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 pages
...length, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat it, as if in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and...principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were oy way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the plea'sures of the world." In times of such... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1851 - 888 pages
...age, blished a school that favoured Calvinthis were an agreement among all people of discern men t, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way Mr. Whitfield. of reprisal for its having BO long interrupted the pleasures of the world.'* There is... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...fictitious. And assuredly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point amongst people of discernment, and nothing remained but to...up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule." I will next take the highest authority the Church had — Archbishop Seeker, who, in 1738, writes thus:... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 1851 - 652 pages
...length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly 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 prineipal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 444 pages
...discovered to be fictitious, and accordvoL. ix. 32 ingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and...so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.'" Originating soon after such an age as this, and throwing up so powerful and timely a bulwark against... | |
 | George Balderston Kidd - Messiah - 1852 - 694 pages
...fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present - age, this were an agreed point, among ah people of discernment; and nothing " remained, but...so long interrupted the pleasures of " the world." How much more hopeful is the aspect of the Christian came at present ! I add another remarkable testimony... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1853 - 418 pages
...length, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat it, as if in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and...principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were DV way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleas.-ires of the world." In times of 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... 
