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PART I.

BUTLER'S ANALOGY.

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BUTLER'S ANALOGY OF RELIGION.

INTRODUCTION.

ON PROBABLE EVIDENCE.

ARGUMENT.-As Natural Religion admits only of Probable Evidence, we must not look either for mathematical demonstration, or absolute certainty respecting it. The Treatise therefore begins by explaining what is meant by Probable Evidence. It is assumed that "there is a God of Nature ;" and thence reasoning from Analogy, (i. e. inferring from those facts, or the results of those things wherewith we are already acquainted, as to what may probably be, with respect to matters beyond our knowledge) it is shown that the system of Natural and Revealed Religion is analogous

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