AN

APOLOGY

JOR

CHRISTIANITY,

APOLOGY

FOR

CHRISTIANITY,

IN

A SERIES OF LETTERS,

ADDRESSED TO

EDWARD GIBBON, Esq.
Author of the Hiftory 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.

FIFTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for T. EVANS in the Strand, and in the Great
Market, Bury St. Edmund's; J. and J. MERRILL,
Cambridge; J. FLETCHER, and PRINCE and
COOKE, Oxford; P. HILL, Edinburgh;
and W. M'KENZIE, Dublin.

M.DCC. XCI.

I KNOW not whether I may

be allowed, without the imputation of vanity, to exprefs the fatisfaction I felt on being told by, my Bookfeller, that another Edition of the Apology for Chriftianity was wanted. It is a fatisfaction, however, in which vanity has no part; it is altogether founded in the delightful hope, that I may have been, in a fmall degree, inftrumental in recommending the Religion of Chrift to the attention of fome, who might not otherwife have considered it, with