THREE SERMONS AND PRAYERS BY JONATHAN SWIFT




Contents:
On Mutual Subjection
On Sleeping in Church
On the Wisdom of this World
Prayers used by the Dean for Stella



ON MUTUAL SUBJECTION {1}--(First Printed in 1744)



"Yea, all of you be subject one to another."--I Peter v. 5

The Apostle having, in many parts of this Epistle, given directions
to Christians concerning the duty of subjection or obedience to
superiors, in the several instances of the subject to the prince,
the child to his parent, the servant to his master, the wife to her
husband, and the younger to the elder, doth here, in the words of my
text, sum up the whole by advancing a point of doctrine, which at
first may appear a little extraordinary. "Yea, all of you," saith
he, "be subject one to another." For it should seem that two
persons cannot properly be said to be subject to each other, and