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Dedication

Joseph Butler

Published: 1736

Copytext: 1740

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53346/53346-0.txt

Butler's Analogy of Religion was first published in 1736. It was so successful that a second (corrected) edition was printed that same year. Our copytext is the third edition of 1740, the last edition to be published in Butler's lifetime. The text here derives from the transcription of Howard Malcolm's 1869 edition, available from Project Gutenberg. Malcolm's edition makes substantial changes to the text, updating it to 19th century style and conventions, but this is the only transcribed version of the text currently available. We are modifying the text to bring it back in line with the original 1740 edition.

Butler.AR.Ded

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES Lord Talbot

Baron of HENSOL

Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain,

Butler.AR.Ded.1

The following TREATISE is will all Respect, Inscribed, in Acknowledgement of the Highest Obligations to the late Lord Bishop of DURHAM and to HIMSELF,
 By His Lordship's
  most dituful,
   most devoted,
    and most humble Servant,
     Joseph Butler.