The Works of Jonathan Swift: Twelve sermons. TractsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... side the grave , must be for ever denied to limited understandings . Swift has taken the safest and the properest method of expounding these arcana . He advances every position that can be established upon so incomprehensible a subject ...
... side the grave , must be for ever denied to limited understandings . Swift has taken the safest and the properest method of expounding these arcana . He advances every position that can be established upon so incomprehensible a subject ...
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... side . There is no miracle mentioned in holy writ , which , if it were strictly examined , is not as much contrary to common reason , and as much a mystery , as this doctrine of the Trinity ; and therefore we may with equal justice deny ...
... side . There is no miracle mentioned in holy writ , which , if it were strictly examined , is not as much contrary to common reason , and as much a mystery , as this doctrine of the Trinity ; and therefore we may with equal justice deny ...
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... sides in Christianity , and inclined to favour every thing that is offered to its disadvantage , it is plain they wish it were not true ; and those wishes can proceed from no- thing but an evil conscience ; because , if there be truth ...
... sides in Christianity , and inclined to favour every thing that is offered to its disadvantage , it is plain they wish it were not true ; and those wishes can proceed from no- thing but an evil conscience ; because , if there be truth ...
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... , but also to the froward , whether they rule according to our liking or not . On the other side , in those countries that pretend to freedom , princes are subject to those laws which their peo- ple 46 ON MUTUAL SUBJECTION .
... , but also to the froward , whether they rule according to our liking or not . On the other side , in those countries that pretend to freedom , princes are subject to those laws which their peo- ple 46 ON MUTUAL SUBJECTION .
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... side , whoever does employ his talents as he ought , will find by his own experience , that they were chief- ly lent him for the service of others ; for to the service of others he will certainly employ them . Thirdly ; If we could all ...
... side , whoever does employ his talents as he ought , will find by his own experience , that they were chief- ly lent him for the service of others ; for to the service of others he will certainly employ them . Thirdly ; If we could all ...
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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.