FOUR

DISSERTATIONS.

I. ON PROVIDENCE.

II. ON PRAYER.

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III. On the REASONS for expecting that
virtuous Men shall meet after Death in
a State of Happiness.

IV. On the Importance of CHRISTIANITY,
the Nature of HISTORICAL EVIDENCE,
and MIRACLES.

By RICHARD PRICE, D.D. F.R.S.

The FOURTH EDITION, with ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand.

M DCC LXXVII.

NEW YORK
PUBLIC

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Published by the fame Author,

Printed for T. CADELL in the STRAND,

1. A REVIEW of the principal Questions and Difficulties in MORALS; particularly, those relating to the Original of our Ideas of Virtue, its Nature, Foundation, Reference to the Deity, Obligation, Subject-matter, and Sanctions. In One Volume Octavo, Price 6s.

2. Observations on REVERSIONARY PAYMENTS, on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in old Age: on the Method of calculating the Values of ASSURANCES on LIVES; and on the National Debt. To which are added, four Essays on different Subjects in the Doctrine of Life-Annuities and political Arithmetic. Also an Appendix, containing a complete Set of TABLES; particularly four new Tables shewing the PROBABILITIES OF LIFE, in London, Norwich, and Northampton; and the Values of Joint Lives. Third Edition, 6s.

3. Obfervations on the Nature of CIVIL LIBERTY, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America: To which is added an Appendix, containing a State of the National Debt, the Eftimate of the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes, and an Account of the National Income and Expenditure since the last War. Seventh Edition, 25.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Author has bestowed fo

much pains on the First of the following Differtations, that he hopes it will be found worthy of careful attention. His view in the Second

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and Third Dissertations is in a great measure Practical; and he begs this may be remembered, and that suitable allowances may be made when they are read. He wishes earnestly to be able to contribute towards advancing the interest of virtue and rational religion in the

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world; and he will think that his life has been spent to a valuable purpose, should he ever fucceed in this in the smallest degree.

The Fourth Differtation is defigned chiefly in answer to an objection against Chriftianity, on which confiderable stress has been laid. It is, perhaps, too foreign to the main end of this work. There cannot, however, be any great impropriety in giving it a place here.