ON THE EVIDENCE OF 1 REVEALED RELIGION. By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. That thou mightest know the certainty of these things wherein LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1794 V DEDICATION. TO The Rev. THOMAS BELSHAM, TUTOR IN DIVINITY IN THE NEW COLLEGE, DEAR SIR, AFFECTION and esteem join with a sense of propriety in leading me to dedicate this work to you. To your friendship and society I owe a very great part of the fatisfaction I have enjoyed during my refidence at Clapton; not many days having ever intervened without our having had fome intercourse, since I have been fettled in your neighbourhood; and the interruption of it, as the breaking of any other habit, will for a long time be sensibly and painfully felt by me. It has also been an intercourse as improving as it has been pleasing to me. And without the seasonable aid of impressions from the knowledge and virtue of others, no man can tell how much his own mind might have fuffered; man being the great inftrument in the hand of Providence of forming man for the best or the worst purposes. |