...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 even...

...than that in 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...

...than that in 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...

...prefatory 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,...And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age,this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up...

...skepticism was 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...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...

...skepticism was 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...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...

...we are only following the footsteps of the profound author of the "Analogy," who finding it, he knew not how, " to be taken for granted, by many persons,...Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry," set himself, in the first instance, to prove " that it is not, however, so clear a case that there...

...we are only following the footsteps of the profound author of the "Analogy," who finding it, he knew not how, " to be taken for granted, by many persons,...Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry," set himself, in the first instance, to prove " that it is not, however, so clear a case that there...

...we are only following the footsteps of the profound author of the "Analogy," who finding it, he knew not how, " to be taken for granted, by many persons,...Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry," set himself, in the first instance, to prove " that it is not, however, so clear a case that there...

...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...