ANALOGY OF RELIGION, Natural and Kevealed, TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, TWO BRIEF DISSERTATIONS : I. OF PERSONAL IDENTITY. 11. OF THE NATURE OF VIRTUE. BY JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. Ejus ( Analogic) hæc vis est, ut id quod dubium est, ad aliquid simile de quo non quæritur, referat: ut incerta certes probet. Quinct. Inst. Orat, lib. i. c. 6. A New and Improved Edition. LONDON: 73, CHEAPSIDE; R. GRIFFIN AND CO., GLASGOW; TEGG AND CO., DUBLIN ; AND J. AND S. A. TEGG, SYDNEY AND HOBART TOWN. MDCCCXXXVIII. Chap. I. Of a future Life . . . . . 1 CHAP. II. Of the Government of God by Rewards and Punish- ments; and particularly of the latter . . . 18 CHAP. III. Of the moral Government of God . . ! 29 CHAP. IV. Of a state of Probation, as implying Trial, Difficul- ties, and Danger · · · · · · 52 CHAP. V. Of a state of Probation, as intended for moral Disci. pline and Improvement . . . . . . 60 CHAP. VI. Of the Opinion of Necessity, considered as in. fluencing Practice . . . . . . CHAP. VII. Of the Government of God, considered as a |