| 1851 - 652 sidor
...he says: "It has 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...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... | |
| Charles Buck - 1851 - 888 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point amongst people of discernment,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 610 sidor
...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... | |
| George Balderston Kidd - 1852 - 694 sidor
...follows. " It is come, 1 "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, dis" covered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present - age, this were... | |
| 1852 - 444 sidor
...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 they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1853 - 418 sidor
...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,...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... | |
| 1853 - 330 sidor
...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»... | |
| Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 sidor
...is come," says he, " 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 On the contrary, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
| Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 sidor
...is come," says he, " 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 On the contrary, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
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