PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF MANY OF THE HEARERS,

By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL.D. F.R. S. ४८. .

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh
you a reason of the hope that is in you.

1 Рут. ііі. 15.

PHILADELPHIA, PRINTED;

LONDON:

RE-PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

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LENGX

LIBRAR THE DEDICATION.

To JOHN ADAMS,

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

DEAR SIR,

THE happiness I have had of your acquaintance and correspondence ever fince your embassy to England, our common friendship for Dr. Price, the ardent friend of liberty and of America, your steady attachment to the cause of Christianity, the favourable at tention you gave to the following Discourses, when they were delivered, and the wish you expressed that they might be published, induce me to take the liberty to dedicate them to you.

Statesmen who have the firmness of mind to profess themselves Christians, and who have a juf

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