Three Prayers and Sermons

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Three Prayers and Sermons is by Jonathan Swift, and its contents list Prayers used by the Dean for Stella, On Mutual Subjection, On Sleeping in Church and On the Wisdom of this World. The prayers are headed as used by the Dean for Stella in her last sickness, 1727. A prayer asks the Lord God to extend pity and compassion toward his languishing servant and to teach her to place her hope and confidence entirely in him.

The text says that wit and eloquence are shining qualities that God hath imparted in great degrees to very few. The text says that if preaching in general be all old and beaten, and they are already so well acquainted with it, there is more shame and guilt to them who so little edify by it. The text says the two virtues most celebrated by ancient moralists were fortitude and temperance, and that the two instances wherein those virtues arrived at the greatest height were Socrates and Cato.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and cleric, the foremost prose satirist in English. Gulliver's Travels and 'A Modest Proposal' remain devastatingly sharp.