The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, with notes, and a life of the author, by W. Scott, Volumen81814 |
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... Argument against Abolishing Christianity in England , 183 A Project for the Advancement of Religion , and the Re- formation of Manners , by a Person of Quality , Remarks upon a Book entitled " The Rights of the Christ- ian Church ...
... Argument against Abolishing Christianity in England , 183 A Project for the Advancement of Religion , and the Re- formation of Manners , by a Person of Quality , Remarks upon a Book entitled " The Rights of the Christ- ian Church ...
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... Arguments against enlarging the Power of Bishops , Reasons humbly offered by the Representation of the Clergy of the City of Dublin , to his Grace William Lord Archbishop of Dublin , 379 383 400 417 439 TWELVE SERMONS . VOL . VIII . A ...
... Arguments against enlarging the Power of Bishops , Reasons humbly offered by the Representation of the Clergy of the City of Dublin , to his Grace William Lord Archbishop of Dublin , 379 383 400 417 439 TWELVE SERMONS . VOL . VIII . A ...
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... arguments that have ever been made use of to bring men over to religion and a good life ? And thus ha- ving shown that man is wonderfully apt to deceive and impose upon himself , in passing through the several stages of that great duty ...
... arguments that have ever been made use of to bring men over to religion and a good life ? And thus ha- ving shown that man is wonderfully apt to deceive and impose upon himself , in passing through the several stages of that great duty ...
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... adapts the matter of faith , as well as possible , to the human capacity . His manner of reasoning is masterly , and his arguments are nervous . " The best illustration of the dean's intentions in preaching this ( 27 ) . 2d, On the Trinity,
... adapts the matter of faith , as well as possible , to the human capacity . His manner of reasoning is masterly , and his arguments are nervous . " The best illustration of the dean's intentions in preaching this ( 27 ) . 2d, On the Trinity,
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... arguments of those bad people who follow the trade of seducing others , they presently conclude , that the truth of the whole gospel must sink along with that one article . Which is just as wise , as if a man should say , because he ...
... arguments of those bad people who follow the trade of seducing others , they presently conclude , that the truth of the whole gospel must sink along with that one article . Which is just as wise , as if a man should say , because he ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 99 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...