THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION NATURAL and REVEALED, TO THE Conftitution and Courfe of NATURE. To which are added, Two Brief DISSERTATIONS: I. Of PERSONAL IDENTITY. II. Of the NATURE of VIRTUE. By JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D. Ejus (Analogia) hæc vis eft, ut id quod dubium eft, ad aliquid THE SIXTH EDITION. LONDON: ANGIENS Printed for JOHN BEECROFT, at No. 23, in And ROBERT HORSFIELD, at No. 22, in M DCC LXXI. 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 moft dutiful, moft devoted, and most humble Servant, JOSEPH BUTLER. ADVERTISEMENT. I F the Reader fhould meet here with any thing, which he had not before attended to, it will not be in the Observations upon the Conftitution and Courfe of Nature, these being all obvious; but in the Application of them: In which, though there is nothing but what appears to me of fome real Weight, and therefore of great Importance; yet he will obferve several things, which will appear to him of very little, if he can think things to be of little Importance, which are of any real Weight at all, upon fuch a Subject as Religion. However, the pro(a) per |