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VINDICATION

O F

PROVIDENCE:

OR, A

TRUE ESTIMATE

OF

HUMAN LIFE.

IN WHICH

The Paffions are confidered in a New Light.

Preached in St. GEORGE's Church near Hanover-
Square, foon after the late King's Death.

By E. YOUN G, LL.D.

Rector of Welwyn in Hertfordshire, and Chaplain
in Ordinary to His Majesty.

LONDON:

Printed for HENRY LINTOT. MDCCXLVII.

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TO THE

QUEEN.

MADAM,

F the following Difcourfe is as
Happy in its Execution, as it is
Important in its Defign, It will

not be, (give me leave to fay) altogether unworthy of a Royal Patronage.

THE Defign is of great Confequence; and I think, New: It is to remove a Prevailing,' and Inveterate Miftake, which first sprang, and now thrives in a Soil too indulgent to it, and a Soil too difficultly fubdued, the Pride, and Ill-Nature, and Melancholy, and Vice of Mankind. I mean, MADAM, That false Opinion, That Reflection on Providence, "That "This World is, in its own Nature, That is, by God's Appointment, a World of Sorrow,

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