...discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, and as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.* An impartial historian has also said,f " the bishops, in their corporate capacity, were not conspicuous...

...an agreed point among all people of dis' Gladstone's Church Principlei, pp. 452. 153. écriraient ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal...the prevailing tone of society in the present day. " In 1738, Archbishop Seeker writes : ' An open and professed disregard to religion is become, through...

...appeared at a critical pertod in the eighteenth century, when, as lîishop Butler said in his "Analogy," " it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Then follows his profound and immortal work on the analogy of religion to the constitution and course...

...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...

...state into which we are unhappily fallen." And about twenty years later, Bishop Butler writes : — " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." And in 1 738, Archbishop Seeker says : — " An open and professed disregard to religion is become,...

...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...

...were not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it was now at length discovered to be fictitious, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.' In the leading periodical of that day — ' The Edinburgh Hevicw'— religion, as found in the national...

...society at large. Bishop Butler, in the preface to his celebrated " Analogy," has the following remarks: falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; The very circumstance that such a work should be called for to prove the truth of Christianity shows...

...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,...its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the wqrid. On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved,...

...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained, but to set it up as a prineipal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Again, in his Charge to the Clergy of his Diocese>, he says: "I cannot forbear lamenting, with you,...