ANALOGY OF RELIGION,

NATURAL AND REVEALED,

TO THE

CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE.

BY JOSEPH BUTLER, LL. D.

LATE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.

BY ALBERT BARNES.

Ejus (analogia) hæc vis est, ut id quod dubium est, ad aliquid simile de quo non
quæritur, referat; ut incerta certis probet....Quint. Inst. Orat. 1. 1. c. 6.

FOURTEENTH EDITION.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY DAYTON AND NEWMAN,
199 BROADWAY.

BOSTON,

SAXTON AND PEIRCE.

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1843.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by DAYTON & SAXTON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of the State of New York.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES, LORD TALBOT,

BARON OF HENSOL,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN,

THE FOLLOWING

TREATISE

IS, WITH ALL RESPECT, INSCRIBED

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE HIGHEST OBLIGATIONS

TO THE LATE

LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM,

AND TO

HIMSELF,

BY HIS LORDSHIP'S MOST DUTIFUL,

MOST DEVOTED,

AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT,

JOSEPH BUTLER.

Of the Government of God by Rewards and Punishments; and

particularly of the latter,

CHAP. III.

Of the Moral Government of God,

CHAP. IV.

Of a State of Probation, as implying Trial, Difficulties, and

Danger,

CHAP. V.

130

Of a State of Probation, as intended for Moral Discipline and

improvement,

CHAP. VI.

160

167

On the Opinion of Necessity, considered as influencing Practice,' 186

CHAP. VII.

Of the Government of God, considered as a scheme, or Con-

stitution, imperfectly comprehended,

CONCLUSION,

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