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    Three Sermons: I. On mutual subjection. II. On conscience. III. On the Trinity
    Three Sermons: I. On mutual subjection. II. On conscience. III. On the Trinity
    Three Sermons: I. On mutual subjection. II. On conscience. III. On the Trinity
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    Three Sermons: I. On mutual subjection. II. On conscience. III. On the Trinity

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    Three Sermons: I. On mutual subjection. II. On conscience. III. On the Trinity
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    Jonathan Swift

    Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best known for his works Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually became Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick’s Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.

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      Three Sermons - Jonathan Swift

      Three Sermons, Three Prayer, by Jonathan Swift

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      THREE SERMONS AND PRAYERS BY JONATHAN SWIFT

      Contents:

         On Mutual Subjection

         On Sleeping in Church

         On the Wisdom of this World

         Prayers used by the Dean for Stella

      ON MUTUAL SUBJECTION {1} - (First Printed in 1744)

      Yea, all of you be subject one to another. - I Peter v. 5

      The Apostle having, in many parts of this Epistle, given directions to Christians concerning the duty of subjection or obedience to superiors, in the several instances of the subject to the prince, the child to his parent, the servant to his master, the wife to her husband, and the younger to the elder, doth here, in the words of my text, sum up the whole by advancing a point of doctrine, which at first may appear a little extraordinary.  Yea, all of you, saith he, be subject one to another.  For it should seem that two persons cannot properly be said to be subject to each other, and that subjection is only due from inferiors to those above them; yet St. Paul hath several passages to the same purpose.  For he exhorts the Romans in honour to prefer one another; and the Philippians, that in lowliness of mind they should each esteem other better than themselves; and the Ephesians, that they should submit themselves one to another in the fear of the Lord.  Here we find these two great Apostles recommending to all Christians this duty of mutual subjection.  For we may observe, by St. Peter, that having mentioned the several relations which men bear to each other, as governor and subject, master and servant, and the rest which I have already repeated, he makes no exception, but sums up the whole with commanding all to be subject one to another.  Whence we may conclude that this subjection due from all men to all men is something more than the compliment of course, when our betters are pleased to tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves.

      I know very well that some of those who explain this text apply it to humility, to the duties of charity, to private exhortations, and to bearing with each other’s infirmities; and it is probable the Apostle may have had a regard to all these.  But, however, many learned men agree that there is something more understood, and so the words in their plain natural meaning must import, as you will observe yourselves if you read them with the beginning of the verse, which is thus: Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder; yea, all of you be subject one to another.  So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man

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