Natural Theology, Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity: Collected from the Appearances of Nature (Classic Reprint)

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In possession of so liberal a provision in the chu-rchpas abundantly to satisfy my wants, and much to exceed my pretensions. Your Lordship's munificeuce, in conjunction 'vith that of some other excellent Prelates, who regarded lay services with the partiality with which our Lordship 'avas pleased to consider them, hath since p need me in se clesiastical situations, more than adequate to every object Qf reasonable ambition. In the mean time. A weak, and, Of late, a painful state of health, deprived me of the power of discharging the duties of my station, in a mannerttall suitable, either to my sense of those duties, or to my most anxious wishes concerning them. My inability for the public functions of m profession, amo t other conse quences, left me mucli at leisure. That cisara was not to be lost. It was only in my study that I could re air my deficiencies in the church. It was only through t e press that I could s ak. These circumstances, in particular, entitled our ordship to call upon me for the only species of exertion of which was ca ble, and disposed me, with out hesitation, to obey the c l in the best manner that I could. In the choice of a subject I had no place left. (qt doubt: in saying which, I do not so much reier, Sweet t? Of the subject, or to any sun? Which the present. Tunes on. Ged, as I do, to its connexion with the subjects treated of in my former publications. The following discussion alone was wanted to make up m works into a system: in which works, such as they are, t e ublic have now before them, the evidences of natural religion, the evidences of re vealed religion, and an account of the duties that result from both. It is of small importance, that they have been written in an order, the very reverse of that in which they ought to he read. I commend therefore the present vol ume to your Lordship's protection, not only as, in all prob ability, my last labour, but as the completion of a consist ent and comprehensive design.

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