The Works of Jonathan Swift: Twelve sermons. TractsA. Constable, 1814 |
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... truth , when it approaches our feelings in a harsh and insulting manner . And Swift was probably sensible , that his ... truths , although we are incapable of defining or analysing their nature ; and he censures those divines , who , in ...
... truth , when it approaches our feelings in a harsh and insulting manner . And Swift was probably sensible , that his ... truths , although we are incapable of defining or analysing their nature ; and he censures those divines , who , in ...
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... truth , and his holy word , and receive with humble faith the mysteries which are too high for comprehension . Above all , Swift points out , with his usual forcible precision , the mischievous tendency of those investi- gations which ...
... truth , and his holy word , and receive with humble faith the mysteries which are too high for comprehension . Above all , Swift points out , with his usual forcible precision , the mischievous tendency of those investi- gations which ...
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... truth in Christianity at all ; and , secondly , if they can pick out any one single article in the Christian religion , which ap- pears not agreeable to their own corrupted rea- son , or to the arguments of those bad people who follow ...
... truth in Christianity at all ; and , secondly , if they can pick out any one single article in the Christian religion , which ap- pears not agreeable to their own corrupted rea- son , or to the arguments of those bad people who follow ...
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... truth , but to give a loose to wickedness by throwing off all religion ; several divines , in order to answer the cavils of those adversaries to truth and morality , began to find out farther explanations of this doctrine of the Trinity ...
... truth , but to give a loose to wickedness by throwing off all religion ; several divines , in order to answer the cavils of those adversaries to truth and morality , began to find out farther explanations of this doctrine of the Trinity ...
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... truth , the power , the justice , and the mercy of God ; which dependence will certainly incline us to obey him in all things . So that the great excellency of faith consists in the consequence it hath upon our actions : as , if we ...
... truth , the power , the justice , and the mercy of God ; which dependence will certainly incline us to obey him in all things . So that the great excellency of faith consists in the consequence it hath upon our actions : as , if we ...
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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.