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THE

ANALOGY

OF

RELIGION

NATURAL and REVEALED,

то THE

Conftitution and Course of NATURE.

To which are added

Two Brief DISSERTATIONS:

I. Of PERSONAL IDENTITY.

II. Of the NATURE of VIRTUE.

By JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D.
Late Lord Bishop of DURHAM.

Ejus (Analogia) hæc vis eft, ut id quod dubium eft, ad aliquid
fimile de quo non quæritur, referat; ut incerta certis probet.
Quint. Inft. Orat. L. I. c. vi.

The FIFTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for ROBERT HORSFIELD, at the
CROWN, in LUDGATE-STREET.

MDCCLXV.

RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES Lord TALBOT

Baron of HENSOL, Lord High Chancellor of GREAT BRITAIN,

The following TREATISE is with all Refpect, Inscribed, in Acknowledgment of the Highest Obligations to the late Lord Bishop of DURHAM and to HIMSELF,

By His LORDSHIP'S

moft dutiful,

most devoted,

and most humble Servant,

JOSEPH BUTLER.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

I

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 Conftitution 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 several 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 Subje& as Religion. However, the pro(a)

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