...much more than a hundred years ago, could write, in the preface to his Analogy, " It has come, Iknow not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons,...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals...

...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 accordingly they treat...

...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,...agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way...

...Christianity, through the wide realms of Christendom. 'It ' has come/ wrote Bishop Butler in 1736, 'I know not how, ' to be taken for granted, by many...agreed point ' among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set 'it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were ' by way...

...characteristic hut 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 a suhject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. * * * On the contrary,...

...Bishop Butler, in the Preface to his "Analogy," whom none will suspect of exaggerating the fact. " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to...

...: ' That profaneness and impiety are grown bold and open.' " ' " Bishop Butler writes, in 1736 : ' It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...age, this were an agreed point among all people of dis' Gladstone's Church Principlei, pp. 452. 153. écriraient ; and nothing remained, but to set it...

...least among the higher classes. Bishop Butler says of the state of things in his own time, " it is come to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a matter of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and, accordingly, they...

...appeared at a critical pertod in the eighteenth century, when, as lîishop Butler said in his "Analogy," " it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of...

...Bishop Butler, in the preface to his invaluable "Analogy of Religion," published in l736, says — " It is come, I .know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat...