Against the deists, Butler argues that the objections raised to revealed religion apply equally to the course of nature they accept, and that probable evidence, not proof, is the guide of practical life. He moves from a future life and moral government to the evidence for Christianity, and adds two short dissertations on personal identity and on the nature of virtue.
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