The English Church From the Accession of George I to the End of the Eighteenth
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Butler felt most keenly the evils of the days in which his lot was cast, and thought that his main duty was to impress upon his fellow- men a sense of these evils. Hence there is a tinge of melancholy about him which affected equally his writings and his life. He always regarded the Church as in a state of decay, and the weight of his great name has sanctioned a rather exaggerated idea of the low estate to which the Church had fallen, which, alas ! needed no exaggeration. Matters were bad enoug...h, but not so bad as Butler represents them when he says in a memorable passage : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity ii6 BENS IN, BUTLER, AND SECKER chap.
is not so much a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. 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 as a principal subject of mirth and pessimism, ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
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Butler felt most keenly the evils of the days in which his lot was cast, and thought that his main duty was to impress upon his fellow- men a sense of these evils. Hence there is a tinge of melancholy about him which affected equally his writings and his life. He always regarded the Church as in a state of decay, and the weight of his great name has sanctioned a rather exaggerated idea of the low estate to which the Church had fallen, which, alas ! needed no exaggeration. Matters were bad enoug...h, but not so bad as Butler represents them when he says in a memorable passage : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity ii6 BENS IN, BUTLER, AND SECKER chap.
is not so much a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. 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 as a principal subject of mirth and pessimism, ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
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