BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. EDITED BY TEMPLE SCOTT WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY THE RT. HON. W.E.H. LECKY, M.P. VOL. IV [Illustration] LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1898 CHISWICK PRESS:--CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. SWIFT'S WRITINGS ON RELIGION AND THE CHURCH VOL. II [Illustration] CONTENTS. TRACTS ON THE SACRAMENTAL TEST: A Letter Concerning the Sacramental Test The Presbyterian's Plea of Merit Narrative of Attempts for the Repeal of the Sacramental Test Queries relating to the Sacramental Test Advantages proposed by Repealing the Sacramental Test Reasons for Repealing the Sacramental Test in Favour of the Catholics Some Few Thoughts concerning the Repeal of the Test Ten Reasons for Repealing the Test Act SERMONS: On Mutual Subjection On the Testimony of Conscience On the Trinity On Brotherly Love On the Difficulty of Knowing One's Self On False Witness On the Wisdom of this World On Doing Good On the Martyrdom of King Charles I On the Poor Man's Contentment On the Wretched Condition of Ireland On Sleeping in Church APPENDICES: I. Remarks on Dr. Gibbs's Paraphrase of the Psalms II. Proposal for Preventing the further Growth of Popery III. Swift and Serjeant Bettesworth IV. A True and Faithful Narrative of what passed in London INDEX TO THE WRITINGS ON RELIGION AND THE CHURCH NOTE. The portrait which forms the frontispiece to this volume is taken, by permission, from the painting in the possession of the Earl of Howth, K.P. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** 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. NOTE.