COURSE OF NATURE

URGED,

ON PRINCIPLES OF ANALOGY,

IN VINDICATION OF

PARTICULAR TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE

FROM

SCEPTICAL OBJECTIONS.

IN SIXTY SECTIONS.

BY THE REV. F. E. J. VALPY, M.A.

MASTER OF READING SCHOOL.

"You have so little ground of argument, that you think you must
need argue even in opposition to the nature of things, to the custom of
men, and to the opinions of every body."

Cicero pro Rosc. Amer., cap. 15.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

1839.

595.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

TO THE RIGHT REV.

CHARLES JAMES BLOMFIELD, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF LONDON,

WHOSE INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS IN THE MAINTENANCE

OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

ARE KNOWN AND APPRECIATED IN ALL THE CHURCHES,

THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT

AT

REMOVING SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES IN THE RECEPTION OF

THE SAME MOST HOLY FAITH IS

Dedicated,

WITH SENTIMENTS OF SINCERE RESPECT,

BY THE AUTHOR.