Chapter I: Front Matter

THE
ANALOGY OF RELIGION,
TO THE
Constitution and Course of Nature.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED
TWO BRIEF DISSERTATIONS:
I. ON PERSONAL IDENTITY.--II. ON THE NATURE OF VIRTUE.

BY
JOSEPH BUTLER, D.C.L.

Ejus [Analogiæ] hæc vis est, ut id quod dubium est ad
aliquid simile, de quo non quæritur referat ut incerta
certis probet.--QUINTIL. l. i. c. 6.

WITH
AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, CONSPECTUS, AND AMPLE INDEX,
BY
HOWARD MALCOM, D.D.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SEVENTEENTH EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1873.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United
States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION 5

” PREFACE 19

” CONSPECTUS 21

AUTHOR’S ADVERTISEMENT 66

” INTRODUCTION 67

PART I.

OF NATURAL RELIGION.

CHAP. I.--A Future Life 77

CHAP. II.--The Government of God by Rewards and Punishments 95

CHAP. III.--The Moral Government of God 105

CHAP. IV.--Probation, as implying Trial, Difficulties, and
Danger 128

CHAP. V.--Probation, as intended for Moral Discipline and
Improvement 136

CHAP. VI.--The Opinion of Necessity, considered as influencing
Practice 157

CHAP. VII.--The Government of God, considered as a Scheme or
Constitution, imperfectly comprehended 171

CONCLUSION 180