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In the Introduction, the general application of classical and scientific education to Theology
is discussed, illustrated in the former instance by pointing out the anxious inquiries of Natural
Reason on these subjects, in the ancient philosophical schools, and the confessed weakness of
that reason to obtain a satisfactory solution, unless assisted by Revelation. The evidences of
Natural Theology are compendiously summed up under the various branches of physical science
to which they relate; thus showing the application of scientific education to theological objects;
the argument will here be found to run parallel with that of the several Bridgewater Treatises,
which have appeared since the publication of the first edition of these Lectures; references are
accordingly given in the notes of the present edition, to the portions of those Treatises where
the topics more generally indicated in this manual will be found developed in fuller detail.
A connecting survey of Butler’s argument, from the analogy between the truths disclosed by
natural and revealed religion, is then made to usher in a recapitulation of the great evidences of
Christianity, on the basis of the works of Lardner and Paley.