Printed for _J. Wilford_, at the _Three Flower-de-luces_, behind the _Chapter-house_, St. _Pauls_. [Price One Shilling.] _1733_ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.5 × 12.62 inches. It was about this date, I suppose, that I read Bishop Butler's _Analogy_; the study of which has been to so many, as it was to me, an era in their religious opinions. Its inculcation of a visible church, the oracle of truth and a pattern of sanctity, of the duties of external religion, and of the historical character of Revelation, are characteristics of this great work which strike the reader at once; for myself, if I may attempt to determine what I most gained from it, it lay in two points which I shall have an opportunity of dwelling on in the sequel: they are the underlying principles of a great portion of my teaching. NEWMAN THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION, Natural and Revealed, TO THE Constitution and Course of NATURE. To which are added Two brief DISSERTATIONS: I. Of PERSONAL IDENTITY. II. Of the NATURE of VIRTUE. BY JOSEPH BUTLER, L L. D. Rector of Stanhope, in the Bishoprick of Durham. _Ejus_ (Analogiæ) _hæc vis est, ut id quod dubium est, ad aliquid simile de quo non quæritur, referat; ut incerta certis probet._ Quint. Inst. Orat. L. I. c. vi. L O N D O N: Printed for JAMES, JOHN and PAUL KNAPTON, at the Crown in Ludgate Street. MDCCXXXVI. Reduced Leaf in original, 7.87 × 10.18 inches. I never heard the olde song of Percy and Duglas that I found not my heart mooved more than with a Trumpet. SIDNEY RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY: CONSISTING OF Old Heroic BALLADS, SONGS, and other PIECES of our earlier POETS, (Chiefly of the LYRIC kind.) Together with some few of later Date. VOLUME THE FIRST.