THE

WHOLE WORKS

OF

JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D.

LATE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM.

NEW EDITION,

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1847.

JUN 30 1919

CHAP. II. Of the Government of God by Rewards and Punish-

ments;

and particularly of the latter

CHAP. III. Of the moral Government of God

CHAP. IV. Of a State of Probation, as implying Trial, Difficul-

ties, and Danger

CHAP. V. Of a State of Probation, as intended for moral Disci-

pline and Improvement

CHAP. VI. Of the Opinion of Necessity, considered as influenc-

ing Practice

CHAP. VII. Of the Government of God, considered as a Scheme,

or Constitution, imperfectly comprehended

CONCLUSION

PART II.

OF REVEALED RELIGION.

CHAP. I. Of the Importance of Christianity

CHAP. II. Of the supposed Presumption against a Revelation,

considered as miraculous

CHAP. III. Of our Incapacity of judging what were to be ex-

pected in a Revelation; and the Credibility, from Analogy,

that it must contain things appearing liable to Objections

CHAP. IV. Of Christianity considered as a Scheme, or Constitu-

tution, imperfectly comprehended

Page

119

136

143

158

CHAP. V. Of the particular System of Christianity: the Ap-

pointment of a Mediator, and the Redemption of the World

by him

165

CHAP. VI. Of the Want of a Universality in Revelation; and

of the supposed Deficiency in the Proof of it

184

CHAP. VII. Of the particular Evidence for Christianity

CHAP. VIII. Of the Objections which may be made against

ADVERTISEMENT.

1r the reader should meet here with anything which he had not before attended to, it will not be in the observations upon the constitution and course of nature, these being all obvious; but in the application of them: in which, though there is nothing but what appears to me of some real weight, and therefore of great importance; yet he will observe several things which will appear to him of very little, if he can think things to be of little importance, which are of any real weight at all, upon such a subject as religion. However, the proper force of the following Treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together.

It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were