A VIEW OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. IN THREE PARTS. PART I. Of the direct Historical Evidence of Christianity, PART II. Of the Auxiliary Evidences of Christianity. BY WILLIAM PALEY, M. A. ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE. THE SECOND EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, NEW BOND-STREET. M.DCC.XCIV. AD Pale 1 TO THE HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND JAMES YORK, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF ELY. MY LORD, WHEN five years ago an important station in the University of Cambridge awaited your Lordship's difpofal, you were pleased to offer it to me. The circumstances, under which this offer was made, demand a public acknowledgement. I had never seen your Lordship: I poffeffed no connection which could poffibly recommend me to your favour: I was known to you, only by my endeavours, in common with many a 3 |