...: and his testimony is as 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...

...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...

...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...

...forgotten Bishop Butler's lament that ' it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject...it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.' Again, in the first part of the nineteenth century, the bloody issue of the French Revolution and its...

...how, to be 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....subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."5 These are strong words,...

...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...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." In England, the 18th century...

...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,...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.13 The revival preachers could...

...eighteenth century that "It has come to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much a subject for inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious." 28 Such quotations, while always ambiguous, could be multiplied endlessly and may even have had a self-fulfilling...

...lamentation in nearly the same words ; eg, ' It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject...an agreed point among all people of discernment,' (Preface to ' The Analogy '). (A) ' The whole world was darkened.' This remains matter of debate. The...

...how, to be 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....subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."**4 Thus the leadership in...