Transcribed from the 1853 Rivingtons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
SOME REMAINS
(hitherto unpublished)
of
JOSEPH BUTLER, LL.D.
sometime
LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM.
“I am more indebted to his writings than to those of any other uninspired writer, for the insight which I have been enabled to attain into the motives of the Divine Economy and the grounds of moral obligation.”
From a Letter of the late Bishop Kaye, of Lincoln.
LONDON:
RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE.
1853.
LONDON:
gilbert and rivington, printers,
st. john’s square
PREFACE.
It has long been a subject of regret that we should have so few remains of so great a writer as the author of the “Analogy,” not only the greatest thinker of his day, but one almost equally remarkable for his personal religion and amiability.