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DEDICATION.

As the most probable means,

either of fecuring a very general reception to the following work,-if it be true, and confequently of much importance to the common caufe of Chriftianity;-or of obtaining the most speedy refutation of it,—if it be false, and therefore useless, if not injurious to the cause it is

intended

intended to fupport;—it is most respectfully inscribed, to

The most reverend the

LORD ARCH-BISHOPS,

and to

The right reverend the
LORD BISHOPS

of the CHURCH of ENGLAND,

By their most obedient,

And most humble fervant,

THE AUTHOR.

INTRODUCTION.

IN

N an age, in which, works containing the general received arguments in defence of the Chriftian Religion, have been fo abundantly multiplied, that it must be difficult to find an EXCUSE for adding to the number;-previoufly to experience, one would fuppofe, that

no APOLOGY would be necessary for an attempt, to add to former evidences, a NEW PROOF of the TRUTH of CHRISTIANITY.

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Not that the author by any means intends to infinuate, that the MERE NOVELTY of an opinion, fhould at all excite a prepoffeffion in it's favour. Literary praise, or blame, belong not to OPINIONS alone. It is from the ARGUMENTS by which they are fupported, that either cenfure, or applaufe, muft be derived. For, there have been in all ages, fome writers, who valued themselves upon opinions, so totally indefensible by reafon, that they only appeared to be NEW, because others, to whom they had really before occurred, had upon an accurate examination, found them to be too abfurd, to be offered to the public. public. And, there have

been

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