 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...  The Panoplist, Or, the Christian's Armory - Page 4271807Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jackson - 1839 - 190 lehte
...is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so muck as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length,...accordingly-, they treat it, as if, in the present age, this mere an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a... | |
 | John Hoppus - 1839 - 634 lehte
...subject of inquiry, having at length been discovered to be a fiction : so that it was treated as if this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to hold it up to ridicule, ' by way of taking reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 lehte
...in 1736 : " 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...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." We may well estimate the... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 590 lehte
...in 1736 : " 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...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." We may well estimate the... | |
 | 1840 - 530 lehte
...many persons^ that Christianity is not. so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they...discernment, and nothing remained, but to set it up as a subject of mirth and ridicule," etc. About the time when Bishop Butler was penning the above ominous... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 lehte
...many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they...discernment, and nothing remained, but to set it up as a subject of mirth and ridicule," etc. About the time when Bishop Butler was penning the above ominous... | |
 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 lehte
...to be taken for granted by many persons, that christianity is not so much as a subject for enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious...and accordingly they treat it as if in the present * Hanes Brydain t'uwr, 567, 568. age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and... | |
 | 1840 - 526 lehte
...to he taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it ns if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained... | |
 | 1852 - 590 lehte
...treated it as if this were an agreed point among all people of discern VOL. 14.— NS D went; 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." Two philosophers rendered... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 lehte
...Analogy," " 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...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Meanwhile Providence was... | |
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