...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...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Two years later, Archbishop Seeker writes: — " An open and professed disregard to religion is become,...

...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...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Two philosophers rendered good service to the truth during this period ; Locke, by his publications...

...places of the land, and, to use the words of Bishop Butler, " was set up as a principal subject of ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. "t Verily, if we could not without conscientious scruples read the service for the martyrdom of Charles...

...places of the land, and, to use the words of Bishop Butler, " was set up as a principal subject of ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."t Verily, if we could not without conscientious scruples read the service for the martyrdom...

...argument and authority. So late as 1736, Bishop Butler wrote in the advertisement to the " Analogy," " It is come,' I know not how, to be taken for granted...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Meanwhile Providence was preparing an agency destined to exert a marvellous and permanent influence...

...However, the proper force of the following treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be hero found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any...

...argument and authority. So late as 1736, Bishop Butler wrote in the advertisement to the " Analogy" " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Meanwhile Providence was preparing an agency destined to exert a marvellous and permanent influence...

...of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." That clay has passed forever. Yet the second theory is not a whit less absurd, though it proudly holds...

...However, the proper force of the following Treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any...

...Christianity, through the wide realms of Christendom. 'It ' has come/ wrote Bishop Butler in 1736, 'I know not how, ' to be taken for granted, by many...reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the plea* ' sures of the world.' It was this light and deriding state of th« public mind which evoked...