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Jonathan Swift

1667–1745 · Church of Ireland · Dublin, Ireland

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, from 1713, preached to his cathedral congregation with a deliberate plainness he defended in his Letter to a Young Clergyman. Only a handful of his sermons survive, among them the Three Sermons on mutual subjection, conscience and the Trinity, in which the satirist's directness is turned to practical moral instruction.

12 sermons

  1. On Mutual Subjection
    1 Peter 5:5
  2. On Sleeping in Church
    Acts 20:9
  3. On the Wisdom of This World
    1 Corinthians 3:19
  4. The Difficulty of Knowing one's Self
  5. On the Testimony of Conscience
    2 Corinthians 1:12
  6. On brotherly Love
  7. On doing Good
    Galatians 6:1–999
  8. On bearing false Witness
    Exodus 20:1–999
  9. On the poor Man's Contentment
  10. On the wretched Condition of Ireland
    Psalms 144:1–999
  11. A Sermon on the Trinity
    John 1:7
  12. Upon the Martyrdom of King Charles
    Genesis 49:5
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