 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...even supposing it to have been purely an human invention, it had been the most amiable, and the most most useful invention, that was ever imposed on mankind for their good."* When Bolingbroke could write thus forciby in praise of Christianity, can we be surprized if the unpresuming... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 508 pages
...theology into the christian system, and thereby to swell, to perplex, and ferment it. Had they kept close t'o what the Saviour taught, all this had been avoided...for their good. But the extensions of it, and the ingraftinents that were made on this divine stock, by mere human philosophy, and by religious prejudices... | |
 | Thomas Young (minister of Zion Chapel, Margate.) - 1818 - 420 pages
...frankly acknowledged, with the sceptical Lord Bolingbroke, " That, supposing Christianty 'to have heen purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable,...and the most useful invention, that was ever imposed upon mankind for their good." JNor, would it. have been beneath them to enquire, whether the Deists... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been...that was ever imposed on mankind for their good." Thus even Rousseau: "If all were perfect Christians, individuals woiild do their duty; the people would... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 536 pages
...makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been...that was ever imposed on mankind for their good." Thus even Rousseau: "If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been...that was ever imposed on mankind for their good." Thus even Rousseau: "If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 pages
...which it was originally taught by Christ himself."t He says, that "supposing Christianity to have been a human invention, it had been the most amiable and...invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good : And that Christianity, as it came out of the hands of God, if I may use the expression, was a most... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 552 pages
...what has been said it is evident, that such a motley * Senec. Ep. 58. j Senec. Passim. : Strom. 1. i. crowd of Jews and heathens, as the first converts...a system, or rather caused divers systems to grow up, of fantastical theology. Christianity, as it came out of the hands of God, if I may use the expression,... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1857 - 354 pages
...Not Paul but Jesus." " Even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it has been the roost amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good." Bolmgbroke. " I value the religion of Jesus not as being absolute and perfect truth, but as containing... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1861 - 170 pages
...simplicity with which it was originally taught by Christ himself." " Supposing Christianity to have been a human invention, it had been the most amiable and...invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good; and that Christianity, as it came out of the hands of God, if I may use the expression, was a most... | |
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Saviour taught, all this had been avoided; and supposing Christianity to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good. 
