An ANSWER to feveral PERSONS who have controverted BY JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL.D. F.R.S. VOL. II. THE SECOND EDITION ENLARGED. The gen'ral ORDER, fince the whole began, POPE. BIRMINGHAM, PRINTED BY PEARSON AND ROLLASON, FOR J. JOHNSON, MDCCLXXXII. 1 and philofophy; and by the help of the latter, we are able to demonftrate the excellence of the moral precepts of the former. And the more we understand of human nature, which is an immenfe field of speculation, barely opened by our revered master Dr. Hartley, the more clearly, I doubt not, shall we perceive how admirably is the whole fyftem of revealed religion adapted to the nature and circumftances of man, and the better judges shall we be of that most important branch of its evidence, which refults from confidering the effects which the first promulgation of it had on the minds of those to whom it was propofed, both Jews and Gentiles. Let us then ftudy the Scriptures, Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, and the Theory of the Human Mind, in conjunction; being fatisfied, that, from the nature of the things, |