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The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution and Course of Nature
The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature Author:Joseph Butler Subtitle: To Which Are Added Two Brief Dissertations: I. on Personal Identity.--Ii. on the Nature of Virtue General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Lippincott Subjects: Analogy (Religion) Natural theology Apologetics Revelation Eschatology Religion / Christian Theology / Apologe... more »tics Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology Religion / Eschatology Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Hence it may be said as to the force of this treatise, 1. To such as are convinced of the truth of revelation, as proved on th principles of liberty and moral fitness, it will furnish a full confirmation. To such as do not admit those principles it is an original proof. it. Those who believe will find objections removed, and those who disbelievu will find they hare no grounds for their scepticism; and a good deal beside. 3. Thus though some may think too much is here made of analogy, yet there can be no denying that the argument is real. It confirms all facts to which it can be applied; and of many is the only proof. It is strong on the side of religion, and ought to be regarded by such as prefer facts to abstract reasonings. CONCLUSION. Recapitulates the general structure and design of the argument, the classes jf persons for whose benefit it is particularly adopted, and declares these who reject Christianity to be wholly without excuse. to % first (ffitiium. Ip the reader should here meet with any thing which he had not before attended to, it will not be in the observations upon the constitution and course of nature, these being all obvious, but in the appli- ' cation of them; in which, though there is nothing but what appears to me of ...« less