ANALOGY- OF RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED Two BRIEF DISSERTATIONS: I. OF PERSONAL IDENTITY. BY JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D. LATE LORD Ejus (Analogiae) haec vis eft, ut id quod dubium eft, ad QUINT. Inft. Orat. L. I. c. vi. THE FIFTH EDITION. Printed in the YEAR, MDCCLIV. RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES Lord TALBOT. Baron of HENSOL, Lord High Chancellor of GREAT BRITAIN, The following TREATISE is with all Refpect, Infcribed, in Acknowledgment of the Highest Obligations to the late Lord Bishop of DURHAM and to HIMSELF. By His LORDSHIP'S most dutiful, most devoted, and most humble Servant, JOSEPH BUT LE R. ADVERTISEMENT. F the Reader fhould meet here with any thing, which he had not before attended to, it will not be in the obfervations upon the Constitution and Course of Nature, these being all obvious; but in the application of them: In which, though there is nothing but what appears to me of fome real weight, and therefore of great importance; yet he will obferve feveral things, which will appear to him of very little, if he can think things to be of little importance, which are of any real weight at all, upon fuch a fubject as Religion. |