OR A RATIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE GROUNDS OF NATURAL AND REVEALED RELIGION. TO WHICH IS ADDED PART OF ANOTHER BOOK UPON THE SAME SUBJECT, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER TO A DEIST. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. BIBLI By the Right Reverend Father in God EDWARD STILLINGFLEET, D. D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER. A NEW EDITION. OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. M DCC XCVII. [Price 10s. in Sheets.] Clar. Press. 1 c. 91. то HIS MOST HONOURED FRIEND AND PATRON Sir ROGER BOURGOINE, KNIGHT AND BARONET. IT SIR, was the early felicity of Mofes, when exposed in an ark of Nilotic papyre, to be adopted into the favour of fo great a perfonage as the daughter of Pharaoh: fuch another ark is this vindication of the writings of that divine and excellent perfon expofed to the world in; and the greatest ambition of the author of it is, to have it received into your patronage and protection. But although the contexture and frame of this treatise be far below the excellency and worth of the subject (as you know the ark in which Mofes was put, was of bulrushes daubed with flime and pitch), yet, when you please to caft your eye on the matter contained in it, you will not think it beneath your favour, and unworthy your protection. For if truth a 2 |