THE

ANALOGY OF RELIGION.

NATURAL AND REVEALED,

TO THE

CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE.

BY JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D.

LATE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

BY ALBERT BARNES.

Ejus (analogise) hæc vis est, ud id quod dubium est, ad aliquid simile de quo nɔn
quæritur, referat; ut incerta certis probet.... Quint. Inst. Orat. 1. 1. c. 6

TWENT ETH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

IVISON & PHINNEY, 321 BROADWAY.
CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS & CO., 39 & 41 LAKE ST.
CINCINNATI MOORE, WILSTACH, KEYS & CO. ST. LOUIS KEITH & WOODS.
PHILADELPHIA; SOWER, BARNES & CO. BUFFALO: PHINNEY & CO.
NEWBURG: T. S. QUACKENBUSIL.

1858.

43*358

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, BY NEWMAN & IVISON,

In the Clerk's office of the Southern District of New York.

TO THE

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 MOST DUTIFUL,

MOST DEVOTED,

AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT

JOSEPH BUTLER.