The Works of Jonathan Swift: Twelve sermons. TractsA. Constable, 1814 |
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Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott. ✓ B لت کرنا ان کی HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF ERNEST LEWIS GAY JUNE 15 , 1927 CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTH . Page Twelve Sermons . Sermon 16413.3.
Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott. ✓ B لت کرنا ان کی HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF ERNEST LEWIS GAY JUNE 15 , 1927 CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTH . Page Twelve Sermons . Sermon 16413.3.
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Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott. CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTH . Page Twelve Sermons . Sermon 1st , The difficulty of knowing one's self , 2d , On the Trinity , 3d , On Mutual Subjection , 1 9 27 42 4th , On the testimony of Conscience , 54 5th ...
Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott. CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTH . Page Twelve Sermons . Sermon 1st , The difficulty of knowing one's self , 2d , On the Trinity , 3d , On Mutual Subjection , 1 9 27 42 4th , On the testimony of Conscience , 54 5th ...
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... Page 373 TRACTS IN Support of the Church Establishment , 379 Section 1. Sentiments of a Church of England - man with respect to Religion , 2. Sentiments of a Church of England - man with respect to Government , Arguments against ...
... Page 373 TRACTS IN Support of the Church Establishment , 379 Section 1. Sentiments of a Church of England - man with respect to Religion , 2. Sentiments of a Church of England - man with respect to Government , Arguments against ...
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... ( Page 105. ) " The remembrance of Christ's sufferings a mere grace - cup delivered to be handed about . " - ( Page 108. ) " Among Christians , one no more than another can be reckoned a priest from scripture . " — And the clerk hath as ...
... ( Page 105. ) " The remembrance of Christ's sufferings a mere grace - cup delivered to be handed about . " - ( Page 108. ) " Among Christians , one no more than another can be reckoned a priest from scripture . " — And the clerk hath as ...
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... page of his book : but I am deceived , if there were not a third motive as powerful as the other two ; and that is , vanity . About the latter end of king James's reign , he had almost finished a learned discourse in defence of the ...
... page of his book : but I am deceived , if there were not a third motive as powerful as the other two ; and that is , vanity . About the latter end of king James's reign , he had almost finished a learned discourse in defence of the ...
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Page 116 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 99 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 78 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Page 156 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 63 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 47 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 197 - Who would ever have suspected Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into...
Page 196 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities? what wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
Page 43 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 79 - O ° my soul, come not thou into their ° secret ; unto their "assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a 0 man, and in their selfwill they ° digged down a wall.