Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Fro those who interest themselves in the sub ject of this Inquiry, the order pursued in the following investigation may appear not alto gether natural; and the Analytic method might perhaps be thought preferable to the Synthetic. And that method would unquestionably have been adopted, had the original design with which this Inquiry was instituted been to dis prove the commonly-received doctrine concern ing the deity of Jesus Christ.