THE ANALOGY O F RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED, то THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, TWO BRIEF DISSERTATIONS: TOGETHER WITH 469 A CHARGE delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, BY JOSEPH BUTLER, LL. D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM, Ejus (Analogiæ) hæc vis eft, ut id quod dubium eft, ad aliquid fimile QUINT. INST. ORAT. L. I. c. 6. A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED. WITH A PREFACE, GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CHARACTER AND WRITING3 OF THE AUTHOR, By SAMUEL HALIFAX, D.D. late LORD BISHOP LONDON: Printed for F. and C. RIVINGTON, G. WILKIE, W. OTRIDGE, M.DCC. XCVIII. LIBRARY то THE REVEREND Dr. THOMAS BALGUY, ARCHDEACON AND PREBENDARY OF WINCHESTER, &c. I DEAR SIR, Truft you will excufe the liberty I have taken of prefixing your Name to the following fheets; the latter part of which, I am confident, will not be thought undeferving of your approbation; and of the former part you will commend the intention at least, if not the execution. In vindicating the character of Bishop BUTLER from the afperfions thrown upon it fince his death, I have but difcharged a common duty of humanity, which furvivors owe to thofe who have deserved well of mankind by their lives or writings, when they are paft the power of appearing in their own defence. And if what I have added, by way of opening the general defign of the works of this great Prelate, be of use in exciting the younger class of Students in our Universities to read, and fo to read as to understand, the Two Volumes prepared and published by the Author himfelf; I flatter myself I shall have done no inconfiderable fervice to Morality and Religion. Your time and ftudies have been long fuccefsfully devoted to the fupport of the fame great caufe: and in what you have lately given to the world, both as an Author and an Editor, you have largely contributed to the defence of our common Chrif |