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Jane Temple

AN

APOLOGY

FOR

CHRISTIANITY,

IN

A SERIES OF LETTERS,

ADDRESSED TO

EDWARD GIBBON, Efq;

AUTHOR OF THE

DECLINE and FALL of the ROMAN EMPIRE.

By R. WATSON, D.D. F.R.S.

AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

We have not followed cunningly devifed fables.
2 Pet. i. 16.

CAMBRIDGE,

Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the UNIVERSITY;
For T. & J. Merrill, and J. Woodyer, in Cambridge;
B. White, J. Dodley, T. Cadell, J. Wilkie, J. Robfon
& Co. H. Hingefton, Strand, and T. Evans,
Pater-nofter Row, London,

M. DCC. LXXVI,

LETTER FIRST.

SIR,

I

T would give me much uneafiness to be reputed an Enemy

to free inquiry in religious matters, or as capable of being animated into any degree of perfonal malevolence against those who differ from me in opinion. On the contrary, I look upon the right of private judgment, in every concern respecting God and ourselves, as fuperior to the control of human A

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