PREFACE. HERE is a fyftem relating to religion and to the state of things which is certainly true, whether we believe it or no. It greatly concerns us to have right notions about it, and to provide, as far as we can, for our future well-being, if this life fhould be the paffage to another. To fhew that there is fufficient evidence of the truth of Chriftianity,. to illuftrate fome parts of it, and to defend it againft some objections, is the defign of the following Difcourfes, to which before I difmifs the Reader, a 2 I beg |