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The extravagant Mirth of Youth expos'd, from
the Confideration of a Judgment to come.

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Funeral Sermon

Occafion'd by the
DEATH

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Mr. George Stennett,

PREACH'D

The 17th of September, 1709.

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ECCLES. XI. 9.

Rejoice, O young Man, in thy. Youth, and let thy Heart chear thee in the Days of thy Youth; and walk in the ways of thy Heart, and in the fight of thine Eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into Judgment.

N this Book we have a large account of the various Experiments that were made by Solomon in his Searches after Happinefs, together with his Refutation of the several mistaken Opinions, which he and others had formerly entertain❜d about it. The Royal Preacher had a Genius fitted to enterprize great things: He feems to have had a strong Pallion for Philofophy, and to have thought that the Study of Nature would have rais'd him to a confiderable Pitch of Happiness. For, fays he, I gave my Heart to seek and search out by Wisdom, Eccl. 1. 13. concerning

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