...when tie said, that " it had come to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject for inquiry, but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious ;" and he wrote his great work for the purpose of arguing the reasonableness of the Christian religion...

...he pleases with me hereafter; and he knows best what to do. May he bless you!'" WBK 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 an agreed point among all people...

...which Bishop Butler, in the preface to his great defence of revealed religion, remarks, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is before we adopt any opinion or assertion of Bolingbroke's, ia to consider whether in writing it he...

...which Bishop Butler, in the preface to his great defence of revealed religion, remarks, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is before we adopt any opinion or assertion of Bolingbroke's, is to consider whether in writing it he...

...reason, philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. 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 inquiry, but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly,...

...almost universal. Bishop Butler, in the preface to his Analogy, dated 1786, remarks : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many 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...

...almost universal. Bishop Butler, in the preface to his Analogy, dated 1786, remarks: " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many 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...

...advertisement to that profound and powerful work he was constrained to write as follows : " 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...

...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 an agreed point among all people...

...lines from Bishop Butler, who within six months of Whitefield's ordination wrote thus : " 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...