THE REV. R. TAYLOR, CURATE OF HART IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM, AND AUTHOR OF THE KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE. LONDON: BALDWIN AND CRADOCK. 1832. 312. "God created man in his own image." "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" BIBLE. "Be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." NEW TESTAMENT. G. Woodfall, Printer, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London. ADVERTISEMENT. THE present little Volume is abridged, in the Colloquial Form, from the MS. of a larger Work, intended to fill two octavo volumes. When the Author had nearly completed his original design, he thought an abridgment might as conveniently introduce the subject to public notice. But as the plan is new, and the general view of the subject original, while the arguments in this Edition are necessarily contracted, those who hold opinions herein combated may take the advantage; and if so, the impartial Reader is desired to suspend his judgment until the larger Edition come forth. CONTENTS. [Note. This Table is more adapted to the larger edition; I. His essential Attributes. 1. Theology.-2. Deity and nature.-3. Incomprehensibility.-4. Eternity.-5. Spirit- uality.-6. Self-existence and self-sufficiency.-7. Omni- science.-8. Omnipresence, or ubiquity.—9. Unity.—10. Om- nipotence.-11. Infinite wisdom. II. His moral attributes. 12. Immutability. 13. Happiness. -14. Goodness.-- 1. Natural philosophy.-2. The analogies of nature.- 3. The energies of matter.-4. How matter is prepared for entering the animal system by vegetable life.-5. How mat- ter enters the animal system.-6. Life, or the connection between soul and matter.-7. Organization of the brain.- 8. No traces of memory or of intellect in the brain.-9. Per- |