ADVERTISEMENT. THE Collection of Treatises now offered to the pub lic, upon the Evidences of the Christian Religion, will be found to comprise, in a neat and condensed form, a body of most important argument upon this interesting subject. The Preliminary Essay of the Rev. Dr. Alexander will afford the reader a useful survey of the general topics, and also introduce more fully to his acquaintance, the celebrated authors whose works we have collected, PALEY, WATSON, JENYNS, and LESLIE It is believed that a large and respectable class of private Christians, and especially students of theology, will find it an advantage to receive, in a pocket volume, the most select fruits of learned labor in defence of our holy religion. To those whose time does not allow of extensive investigation, as well as those who consult economy, this little compilation will probably be welcome; more particularly as there is no volume, of whatever size, in the English language, which offers so valuable a syllabus of these fundamental discus sions. At a time like the present, when adventurous speculation is at its height, there is no friend of Christianity who may not profit by a recurrence to such a manual; in which he will find spread before his mind the great proofs of religion, for the enlargement of his knowledge, the resolution of his doubts, and the abundant corroboration of his faith. Any one of the works included is singly valuable. One or two of them, in a complete form, are exceedingly rare, and they consti tute together a truly Christian panoply. The Publishers indulge some confidence, therefore, in committing this work to the impartial and enlightened judgment of clergymen, theological students, instructors of youth, and inquiring men of every class. It contains nothing characteristic of particular denominations; nothing which does not rest on the basis of our common Christianity. This Collection is neatly printed, and embellished with a likeness of Bishop Watson; and no care or labor has been spared in endeavoring to issue a book in all respects worthy of public attention. Should it meet with encouragement, it is proposed to follow it by similar collections upon allied subjects. THE PUBLISHERS. CONTENTS. VOL. I. I. A Preliminary Discourse on the Evidences of Chris- tianity; with a short account of the Treatises which these volumes contain. By Archibald Alexander, D. D., Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary at II. An Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq., Author of the 'His- tory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' By R. Watson, D. D., F. R. S., and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. III. An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, ad- dressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book entitled 'The Age of Reason, Part the Second, being an Investi- gation of True and of Fabulous Theology.' By R. Wat- son, D. D., F. R. S., Lord Bishop of Llandaff, and Re- IV. A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Re- |