Note 6 — BISHOP BUTLER.[2] (1854.)
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Professor Rogers’s Defence of the ‘Eclipse of Faith’, p. 43. It is to be observed, we are not at all speaking of the facts of the Old Testament; we are but limiting the considerations on which the above writer has rested its defence. These refined reasonings but weaken the case they are brought to support. ‘I did not know,’ said George the Third, ‘that the Bible needed an apology.’