EVIDENCES

OF THE Joba, Fonbet

CHRISTIAN RELIGION,

By the Right Honourable

JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq;

To which are added,
Several Discourses against Atheism and In-
fidelity, and in Defence of the Christian
Revelation, occasionally published by Him
and Others:

And now collected into one Body, and digested
under their proper Heads.

With a PREFACE, containing the Sentiments
of Mr. BOYLE, Mr. Lock, and Sir ISAAC
NEWTON, concerning the Gospel-Revelation.

The. FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

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Printed for Jeand R. TONSON and

S. DRAPER in the Strand.

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PREFACE.

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HE Character of Mr. Addison and his Writings, for Justness of thought, Strength of reasoning, and Purity of stile, is too well established to need a Recommendation; but their greatest Ornament, and that which gives a Luftre to all the rest, is his appearing, throughout, a zealous Advocate for Virtue and Religion against Profaneness and Infidelity. And because his excellent Discourses upon those Subjects the dispersed among his other Writings, and are by that means not so generally known and read as they deserve, it was judg'd to be no unfeasonable Service to Religion at

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