RELATING TO THE EVIDENCES OF REVEALED RELIGION. VOL. III. BEING THE SECOND DELIVERED AT PHILADELPHIA IN 1797, BY JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL. D. F. R. S. &c. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh PHILADELPHIA PRINTED. LONDON: Reprinted for J. JOHNSON, in St. Paul's Church-yard. ! THE PREFACE. ! THIS volume of discourses may be con sidered as a continuation of those which I delivered, and published, the last year, as those were of the set that I delivered in England, since they all relate, directly, or indirectly, to the evidences of revealed religion; and I flatter myself they will not be thought less original, or useful. All great truths, and systems of truth, have numerous relations to other truths, and it cannot be expected that they should all be discovered by the same person, and still less at the same time. We may therefore expect that if revealed religion be true, various proofs and illustrations of its truth will still be discovered by those who give their attention to the subject; and, in the present state of things, a more important one cannot be imagined. It is to be hoped, therefore, that many learned and studious persons, the friends of Chriftianity and of truth, A 2 |