OR, EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF THE DEITY, COLLECTED FROM THE APPEARANCES OF NATURE. BY WILLIAM PALEY, D. D. ARCH-DEACON OF CARLISLE., ALBANY: PRINTED FOR DANIEL & SAMUEL WHITING. SOLD BY THEM AT THEIR BOOK-STORE, NO 45, STATE- TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND SHUTE BARRINGTON, LL.D. LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. MY LORD, TAB following Work was undertaken at your Lordship's recommendation; and, among ft other motives, for the purpose of making the mofl acceptable return I could make for a great and important benefit conferred upon me. It may be unneceffary, yet not, perhaps, quite impertinent, to ftate to your Lordship and to the reader, the Jeveral inducements that have led me once more to the prefs. The favor of my first and ever honored patron had put me in poffeffion of fo liberal a provifion in the church, as abundantly to fatisfy my wants, and much to exceed my pretenfions. Your Lordship's munificence, in conjunction with that of fome other excellent Prelates, who regarded my fervices with the partiality with which your Lordship was pleafed to confider them, hath fince placed me in ecclefiaflical fituations, more than adequate to every object of reafonable ambition. In the mean time, a weak, and, of late, a painful state of health, deprived me of the power of difcharging the duties of my ftation, in a manner at all funtable, either to my fenfe of thofe duties, or to my moft anxious wishes concerning them. My inability for the public functions of my profeffion, among ft other confequences, left me much at ifure. That lefure was not to be loft. It was only in my fudy that I could repair my deficiencies in the |