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THE

EVIDENCES

OF THE

CHRISTIAN RELIGION,

By the Right Honourable
JOSEPH ADDISON, Esa.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

SEVERAL DISCOURSES

AGAINST ATHEISM AND INFIDELITY,

AND IN

DEFENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION.

Occafionally published by Him and Others :

And now collected into one Body, and digefted
under their proper Heads.

WITH A PREFACE,

Containing the Sentiments of Mr. BOYLE, Mr. Locke,
and Sir ISAAC NEWTON, Concerning the
GOSPEL REVELATION.

OXFORD:

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

1801.

El am. Press.
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1.6. 10.

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PREFACE.

THE character of Mr. ADDISON and his Writings, for Juftness of Thought, Strength of Reasoning, and Purity of Style, is too well established to need a recommendation; but their greatest ornament, and that which gives a luftre to all the reft, is his appearing, throughout, a zealous advocate for Virtue and Religion against Profanenefs and Infidelity. And because his excellent Difcourses upon thofe fubjects lie difperfed among his other writings, and are by that means not fo generally known and read as they deserve, it was judged to be no unfeasonable service to Religion, to publifh them together in a diftinct volume; in hopes,

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