EVIDENCES,

. OF.THE Sobi, Kenbrud
CHRISTIAN RELIGION,

By the Right Honourable
JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq;

To which are added,
Several Discourses against Atheism and In-

fidelity, and in Defence of the Christian
Revelation, occasionally published by Him
and Others :

:
And now colleEted into one Body, and digested

under their proper Heads.

With a PRE FAC E, containing the Sentiments
of Mr. Boyle, Mr. Lock, and Sir ISAAC
NEWTON, concerning the Gospel-Revelatio».

I ONDON:
Printed for Ji and R; Tonson and

S. D KA PË R in the Strand.

M DCC LIII.

Acloison

| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

- ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

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PRE FACE.

PO HE Character of Mr. Ad

difon and his Writings, AGD for Justness of thought, MSR Strength of reasoning, and ·

Purity of stile, is too well established to need a Recommendation; but their greatest Ornament, and that which gives a Lustre to all the rest, is his appearing, throughout, a zealous Advocate for Virtue and Religion against Profaneness and Infidelity. And because his excellent Discoursés upon those Subjects lie difperfed among his other Writings, and are by.that means not so generally known and read as they deserve, it was judg'd to be no unfeasonable Service to Religion at : A 2

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