AN HISTORY OF THE Corruptions of Christianity, IN TWO VOLUMES. *BY Jofeph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. THE SECOND EDITION. Didft thou not fow good feed in thy field?-Whence then Matt. xiii. 27. VOL. I. BIRMINGHAM, PRINTED BY J. THOMPSON, FOR J. JOHNSON, No 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON. TO THE Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, A. M. DEAR FRIEND, WISHING, as I do, that my name may ever be connected as closely with yours after death, as we have been connected by friendship in life, it is with peculiar fatisfaction that I dedicate this work (which I am willing to hope will be one of the most useful of my publications) to you. To your example of a pure love of truth, and of the most fearlefs integrity in afferting it, evidenced by the facrifices you have made to it, I owe much of my own wifhes to im→ bibe the fame fpirit; though a more favourable a 2 |