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PHILOSOPHICAL UNBELIEVER.

PART I..

CONTAINING

An Examination of the principal Objections to the Doc-
trines of Natural Religion, and especially those con-
tained in the Writings of Mr. HUME.

By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL.D. F.R.S.

AC. IMP. PETROP. R. PARIS. HOLM. TAURIN. AUREL. MED.
PARIS. HARLEM. CANTAB. AMERIC. ET PHILAD, SOCIUS.

SCILICET HAUD SATIS EST RIVOS SPECȚARE FLUENTES
FONTEM IPSUM SPECTARE JUVAT,

ANTI LUCRETIUS.

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7951L 1787

TO

WILLIAM TAYLEUR, Esq,

OF SHREWSBURY.

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DEAR SIR,

I
Shall think myself highly honoured,
if, in dedicating this work to you, I
can perpetuate the memory of our friend-
ship, and at the same time procure for
revealed religion the advantage that it may
derive from the knowledge of your zeal-
ous attachment to it.

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We live in an age in which many persons of a philosophical turn of mind are disposed to reject revelation. This you and I equally lament. But we confider it as a temporary circumstance, fince the prin

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