VIEW 1819 OF THE Evidences of Chriftianity. IN THREE PARTS. PART I. Of the direct Historical Evidence of Christianity, and PART II. Of the Auxiliary Evidences of Christianity. PART III. A brief Confideration of fome popular Objections, BY WILLIAM PALEY, Μ. Α.. ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE. ۰۰ THREE VOLUMES IN ONE. PRINTED AT BOSTON, BY I. THOMAS AND E. T. ANDREWS, No. 45, NEWBURY STREET. ::::::::::: SEPT. 1803. TO THE HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND JAMES YORK, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF ELY. MY LORD, W HEN five years ago, an important station in the University of Cambridge awaited your Lordship's disposal, you were pleased to offer it to me. The circumstances, under which this offer was made, demand a public acknowledgment. I had never seen your Lordship: I possessed no connexion which could possibly recommend me to your favour: I was known to you, only by my endeavours, in common with many others, to difcharge my duty as a tutor in the University; and by fome very imperfect, but certainly well intended, and, as you thought, useful publications fince. In an age by no means wanting in examples of honourable patronage, although this deserve not to be mentioned, in respect to the object of your Lordship's choice, it is inferior to none, in the purity and disinterestedness of the motives which suggested it. How the following work may be received, I pretend not to foretel. My first prayer concerning it is, that it may do good to any: my fecond hope, |