SWIFT'S WRITINGS ON RELIGION AND THE CHURCH

THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT

By Jonathan Swift, D.D.

Edited By Temple Scott
With A Biographical Introduction By
The Rt. Hon. W.E.H. Lecky, M.P.
VOL. IV of BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

1898

CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

CONTENTS

[ SWIFT'S WRITINGS ON RELIGION AND THE CHURCH ]

[ A LETTER FROM A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN IRELAND TO A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN ENGLAND CONCERNING THE SACRAMENTAL TEST. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1708. ]

[ THE PRESBYTERIANS' PLEA OF MERIT. ]

[ A NARRATIVE OF THE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS, WHICH THE DISSENTERS OF IRELAND HAVE MADE, FOR A REPEAL OF THE SACRAMENTAL TEST. ]

[ QUAERIES WROTE BY DR. J. SWIFT, IN THE YEAR 1732. [RELATING TO THE SACRAMENTAL TEST.] ]

[ THE ADVANTAGES PROPOSED BY REPEALING THE SACRAMENTAL TEST, IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED. BY THE REV. DR. SWIFT, DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, ]

[ REASONS HUMBLY OFFERED TO THE PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND FOR REPEALING THE SACRAMENTAL TEST, &c. IN FAVOUR OF THE CATHOLICS, OTHERWISE CALLED ROMAN CATHOLICS, AND BY THEIR ILL-WISHERS PAPISTS. ]

[ SOME FEW THOUGHTS CONCERNING THE REPEAL OF THE TEST.[1] ]

[ TEN REASONS FOR REPEALING THE TEST ACT.[1] ]

[ ON MUTUAL SUBJECTION. ]

[ ON THE TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE. ]

[ ON THE TRINITY. ]

[ ON BROTHERLY LOVE.[1] ]

[ THE DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING ONE'S-SELF.[1] ]

[ ON FALSE WITNESS. ]

[ ON THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD.[1] ]

[ DOING GOOD: ]

[ ON THE MARTYRDOM OF KING CHARLES I. ]

[ ON THE POOR MAN'S CONTENTMENT. ]

[ A SERMON ON THE CAUSES OF THE WRETCHED CONDITION OF IRELAND.[1] ]

[ A SERMON UPON SLEEPING IN CHURCH. ]

[ APPENDIX I. SWIFT'S REMARKS ON DR GIBBS'S PARAPHRASE OF THE PSALMS. ]

[ THE FIRST FIFTEEN PSALMS, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE. ]

[ APPENDIX II. A PROPOSAL HUMBLY OFFERED TO THE P T FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL PREVENTING THE FURTHER GROWTH OF POPERY. ]

[ APPENDIX III. SWIFT AND SERJEANT BETTESWORTH. ]

[ AN EPIGRAM.[1] INSCRIBED TO THE HONOURABLE SERGEANT KITE. ]

[ "THE YAHOO'S OVERTHROW; OR, THE KEVAN BAYL'S NEW BALLAD."[3] UPON SERGEANT KITE'S INSULTING THE DEAN. ]

[ "ON THE ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL,[1] AND BETTESWORTH. ]

[ APPENDIX IV. A TRUE AND FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF WHAT PASSED IN LONDON, DURING THE GENERAL CONSTERNATION OF ALL RANKS AND DEGREES OF MANKIND; ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY LAST. ]