The Works of the REV. Jonathan Swift, D.D. (Volume 3) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808. Excerpt: ... These Remarks, though left unfinished by the Dean, and but the slight prolusions of his strength, show how sincere, how able a champion he was of religion and the church. W. B. Dr. Matthew Tindal f, born about 1637, became a commoner of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 16'52; removed to Exeter College in 1672; and was elected fellow of All Souls in 1676. In the reign of James II. he declared himself a Roman Catholic, but afterward renounced that religion. He greatly distinguished himself by two famous works. First, "The Rights of the Christian Church asserted," in 1706. This book, as was expected, made a great noise, and met with many answerers; among others, it exercised the pc"n of Dr. Swift, in these judicious Remarks. Dr. Tindal published a defence of it in 1709; which, with the book itself, the house of commons ordered to be burnt by the hangman, March 25, 1710. The other famous work of Dr. Tindal was, "Christianity as old as the Creation," published in 1730. The first was written against the Church, this against Revelation; so that, if this Author's principles and designs had taken place, his plan would have been completed by the destruction of both. Besides these two important works, he wrote a great number of smaller pieces on civil and religious liberty. He died in August J733; and though he was about 73 years of age when he published his " Christianity as old as the Creation," yet he left a second volume ui that work in manuscript, by way of reply to all his answerers; the publication of which was prevented by Bp. Gibson. lie was indisputably a man of great reasoning powers, and very sufficient learning; and Christians might have wished with reason, that he had employed his talents to a better purpose. N.-J-" Who virtue and the church alike disowns,...