Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 2 It mufi be confefl'ed, that by the weaknefia and tndifcretion of bufy (or, at heft, of well-meaning) people, as well as by the malice of thofe who are enemies to all revealed religion, and are not con tent to poll'ef's their own infidelity in filence, without communicating it to the difiurbance of mankind I fay, ' by thcfe means, it mull: be confefl'ed, that the doctrine of the Trinity hath fufl'ered very much, and made Chril'tianity fuflcer along with it. For thefe two things mull be granted Firli, That men of wicked lives would be very glad there were no truth in Chriftia'ni'ty at all; and, fecondly, If they can pick out any one fingle article in the Chrifiian religion which appears not agreeable to their own corrupted reafon, or to the arguments of thofe bad people who follow the trade of feducing Others, the prefently conclude, that the truth of the whole go pel mufi fink along with that one article. Which is jufi as wife, as if a man {hould fay, be caufe he diflikes one law of his country, he will therefore obferve no law at all and yet that one law may be very reafonable in itfel-f, although he does not allow it, or does not know the reafon of the lawgivers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.