OR

EVIDENCES

OF THE

EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES

OF

THE DEITY,

COLLECTED FROM THE APPEARANCES OF NATURE.

BY WILLIAM PALEY, D. D.

ILLUSTRATED BY A

SERIES OF PLATES, AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,

BY JAMES PAXTON,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LONDON.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

PUBLISHED BY J. VINCENT.

1826.

TO THE

HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND

SHUTE BARRINGTON, LL. D.

LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM.

MY LORD,

To your suggestion the world is indebted for the existence of Dr. Paley's valuable work on Natural Theology. The universal and permanent esteem in which it has been held in this country, and its favourable reception in France, even after the desolating influence of the Revolution, have abundantly approved your Lordship's selection both of the subject and of the person to whom you intrusted it.

In looking round, then, for a patron for these ILLUSTRATIONS, it was natural to have recourse to him who was the original suggestor of the work which it is their object to explain. Nor was I disappointed in my wish; your Lordship