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JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL. D. F. R. S. &c.

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that afketh
you a reafon of the hope that is in you. 1 PETER iii. 15.

PHILADELPHIA PRINTED.

LONDON:

Reprinted for J. JOHNSON, in St. Paul's Church-yard.

1799.

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THIS volume of difcourfes may be confidered as a continuation of those which I delivered, and published, the last year, as those were of the fet that I delivered in England, fince they all relate, directly, or indirectly, to the evidences of revealed religion; and I flatter myself they will not be thought lefs original, or useful. All great truths, and fyftems of truth, have numerous relations to other truths, and it cannot be expected that they fhould all be discovered by the fame perfon, and still lefs at the fame time. We may therefore expect that if revealed religion be true, various proofs and illustrations of its truth will still be discovered by those who give their attention to the fubject; and, in the prefent state of things, a more important one cannot be imagined. It is to be hoped, therefore, that many learned and ftudious perfons, the friends of Christianity and of truth,

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