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    Three Sermons and Prayers
    Three Sermons and Prayers
    Three Sermons and Prayers
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    Three Sermons and Prayers

    By Jonathan Swift

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    According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles."

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    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455327782
    Three Sermons and Prayers
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    Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) nació en una familia humilde de Dublín. A los diecinueve años entró a trabajar como secretario del político inglés William Temple. Se trasladó a Inglaterra y con él permaneció diez años en los que siguió formándose y se ordenó sacerdote. A la muerte de Temple entró al servicio del conde de Berkeley y se hizo cargo de algunas parroquias irlandesas. En 1701, ya doctor en Teología, publicó anónimamente su primer panfleto político. Le seguirían muchos otros textos, sobre todo satíricos, con los que se ganó poderosos enemigos como la propia reina Ana. Criticó ferozmente el interés de la sociedad por lo material, la hipocresía religiosa y, en general, todo lo que consideró los males propios del ser humano. Su obra maestra fue sin duda Los viajes de Gulliver, que tuvo que dar a luz bajo seudónimo en 1726.

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      Three Sermons and Prayers - Jonathan Swift

      THREE SERMONS AND PRAYERS BY JONATHAN SWIFT

      Published by Seltzer Books

      established in 1974, now offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com  

      Other recommended books by Jonathan Swift available from Seltzer Books:

      A Tale of a Tub

      Three Sermons

      The Battle of the Books

      Annus Mirabilis - Predictions for the Year 1708

      Gulliver's Travels

      The Journal to Stella

      The Poems of Jonathan Swift

      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 to every man, which cannot be made void by any power, pre-eminence, or authority whatsoever.  Now what sort of subjection this is, and how it ought to be paid, shall be the subject of my present discourse.

      As God hath contrived all the works of Nature to be useful, and in some manner

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