The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volume 81814 |
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... Christ- ian Church , " & c . Abstract of Mr Collins's Discourse of Free - thinking , Thoughts on Free - thinking , A Letter to a Young Clergyman lately entered into Holy Orders , · An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen , 201 231 293 327 ...
... Christ- ian Church , " & c . Abstract of Mr Collins's Discourse of Free - thinking , Thoughts on Free - thinking , A Letter to a Young Clergyman lately entered into Holy Orders , · An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen , 201 231 293 327 ...
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... mercies bestowed upon us ; but chiefly for the Fountain of them all , Jesus Christ our Lord , in whose name and words we further call upon thee , saying , ' Our Father , ' & c . " J ( 9 ) SERMON I. THE DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING.
... mercies bestowed upon us ; but chiefly for the Fountain of them all , Jesus Christ our Lord , in whose name and words we further call upon thee , saying , ' Our Father , ' & c . " J ( 9 ) SERMON I. THE DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING.
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... Christ his sake , & c . Consider what hath been said ; and the Lord give you a right understanding in all things . To whom , with the Son and the Holy Ghost , be all honour and glory , now and for ever . SERMON II . ON THE TRINITY ...
... Christ his sake , & c . Consider what hath been said ; and the Lord give you a right understanding in all things . To whom , with the Son and the Holy Ghost , be all honour and glory , now and for ever . SERMON II . ON THE TRINITY ...
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... Christ's divinity , which has been universally received by all bodies of Christians , since the condemnation of Arianism under Constantine and his suc- cessors ; wherefore the proceedings of the Socinians are both vain and unwarrantable ...
... Christ's divinity , which has been universally received by all bodies of Christians , since the condemnation of Arianism under Constantine and his suc- cessors ; wherefore the proceedings of the Socinians are both vain and unwarrantable ...
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... you ( whe- ther compiled by Athanasius or not ) , they were taken up three hundred years after Christ , to ex- pound this doctrine ; and I will tell you upon what occasion . About that time there sprang up a ON THE TRINITY . 29.
... you ( whe- ther compiled by Athanasius or not ) , they were taken up three hundred years after Christ , to ex- pound this doctrine ; and I will tell you upon what occasion . About that time there sprang up a ON THE TRINITY . 29.
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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 97 - Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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 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 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...