these are placed in high and influencing stations. Such is the fincere judgment which I have formed of your Lordship's character, and of its public value: my perfonal obligations I can never forget. Under a due sense of both these considerations, I beg leave to subscribe myself, with great refpect and gratitude, or, EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE AND ATTRI BUTES OF THE DEITY, COLLECTED OF NATURE. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT. IN croffing a heath, fuppofe I pitched my foot against a ftone, and were asked how the ftone came to be there, I might poffibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it perhaps be very eafy to fhew the abfurdity of this anfwer. But fuppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it fhould be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I fhould hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have |