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PHILOSOPHICAL UNBELIEVER.

PART I.

CONTAINING

An Examination of the principal Objections to the Doc-
trines of Natural Religion, and especially those con-
tained in the Writings of Mr. Hume.

THE SECOND EDITION.

1753

By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL.D. F.R.S.

AC. IMP. PETROP. R. PARIS. HOLM, TAURIN. AUREL. MED.
PARIS. HARLEM. CANTAB. AMERIC. ET PHILAD, SOCIUS.

SCILICET HAUD SATIS EST RIVOS SPECTARE FLUENTES
FONTEM IPSUM SPECTARE JUVAT.

ANTI LUCRETIUS.

BIRMINGHAM,

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NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON,

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то

WILLIAM TAYLEUR, Esq,

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OF SHREWSBURY.

DEAR SIR,

Shall think myself highly honoured, if, in dedicating this work to you, I can perpetuate the memory of our friendship, and at the fame time procure for revealed religion the advantage that it may derive from the knowledge of your zealous attachment to it.

We live in an age in which many perfons of a philofophical turn of mind are difpofed to reject revelation. This you

and I equally lament. But we confider it as a temporary circumftance, fince the