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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... wicked man can take to reform himself ; for let us but stop the foun- tain , and the streams will spend and waste them- selves away in a very little time ; but if we go about , like children , to raise a bank , and to stop the current ...
... wicked man can take to reform himself ; for let us but stop the foun- tain , and the streams will spend and waste them- selves away in a very little time ; but if we go about , like children , to raise a bank , and to stop the current ...
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... wicked man can do in the business of religion , if he would but do his best , is very often more than he can tell . Thus nothing is more common than to see a wicked man running headlong into sin and folly , against his reason ...
... wicked man can do in the business of religion , if he would but do his best , is very often more than he can tell . Thus nothing is more common than to see a wicked man running headlong into sin and folly , against his reason ...
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... wicked , whether those opinions be true or false , unless your avowed design be to abolish that religion altogether . So , for instance , are the famous doctrine of Christ's divinity , which has been universally received by all bodies ...
... wicked , whether those opinions be true or false , unless your avowed design be to abolish that religion altogether . So , for instance , are the famous doctrine of Christ's divinity , which has been universally received by all bodies ...
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... wicked lives would be very glad there were no 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 ...
... wicked lives would be very glad there were no 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 ...
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... thought fit to answer those wicked books , have been mistaken too by answering fools in their folly ; and endeavouring to explain a mystery , which God intended to keep secret from us . And as I would exhort all men to ON THE TRINITY . 39.
... thought fit to answer those wicked books , have been mistaken too by answering fools in their folly ; and endeavouring to explain a mystery , which God intended to keep secret from us . And as I would exhort all men to ON THE TRINITY . 39.
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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...