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ORIGIN of EVIL.

By DR. WILLIAM KING, late Lord
Archbishop of DUBLIN..
Tranflated from the Latin, with Notes;
AND

A DISSERTATION
Concerning the

Principle and Criterion of Virtue and the
Origin of the Paffions.

VOL. I.

The Second Edition corrected and enlarged from the
Author's Manufcripts.

To which are added two Sermons by the fame Author, the
former concerning Divine Præfcience; the latter on the
Fall of Man, never before publifh'd.

By EDMUND LAW, M. A. Fellow of Christ College
in Cambridge.

LONDON:

Printed by J. Stephens, for W. Thurlbourn Bookfeller in Cambridge; ani

fold by J. Knapton, R. Knaplock and W. Innys in St. Paul's Churc»-
Yard London. M.DCC.XXXII.

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REVEREND

Dr. WATERLAND.

Mafter of Magdalen College in Gambridge, &c.

SIR,

IT

is a common obfervation that the ge nerality of such Freethinkers as are fe rious and have reafon'd themselves out of the Chriftian Religion, have at the same time rejected the belief of a Deity. This must arise either from their entertaining fome Principles that lead equally to both thefe abfurdities; or, which is more probable, from their having no Principles at all: from mere Scepticism and a habit of raifing Objections without ever attending to the anfwers; without proceeding on any fettled grounds of enquiry, or endeavouring to establish any thing: a temper of mind which may eafily bring a Man to disbe

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