THE WORK S OF Dr: Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. VOLUME III. LONDON, Printed for C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet. MDCELX. NIVERSARIHOVN NAR. Of the THIRD VOLUME. PREFACE by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope. By Dr. Swift. A Difcourfe of the contests and dissentions between the nobles Sequences they had upon thofe States The fentiments of a church-of-England man, with respect to religion and government An argument to prove, that the abolishing of christianity in England may, as things now ftand, be attended with fome inconveniencies, and perhaps not produce those many good effects propofed thereby A project for the advancement of religion, and the reforma- A letter from a member of the house of commons in Ire- land, to a member of the house of commons in England, concerning the facramental teft A tritical effay upon the faculties of the mind Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month and day of the month are set down, the perfons named, and the great actions and events of the year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther impofed on by vul- gar almanack-makers. By Ifaac Bickerstaff, fq; p. 175 The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predic- 'Squire Bickerstaff detected; or, the aftrological impoftor A vindication of Ifaac Bickerstaff, efq; against what is objected to him by Mr. Partridge in his almanack for A propofal for correcting, improving, and afcertaining the This is the only piece in this volume which was not writ- TH HE Papers that compose the first of these volumes were printed about eighteen years ago, to which there are now added two or three small tracts; and the verses are transferred into the fourth volume apart, with the addition of fuch others as we fince have written. The second and third will confift of several fmall treatises in profe, in which a friend or two is concerned with us. Having both of us been extremely ill treated by fome bookfellers, especially one Edmund Curll, it was our opinion that the beft method we could take for juflifying ourselves, would be to publish whatever loose papers, in profe and verse, we have formerly written; not only fuch as have already ftolen into the world (very much to our regret, and perhaps very little to our credit) but fuch, as in any probability hereafter may run the fame. fate; having been obtained from us by the importunity, and divulged by the indifcretion of friends, although reftrained by promises, which few of them are ever known to observe, and often think they make us a compliment in breaking. But the confequences have been ftill worfe: We have been entitled, and have had our names prefixed at length, to whole volumes of mean productions, equally offenfive to good manners and good fenfe, which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print. For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing, which may prejudice another's fortune, the law punishes. the offender with the lofs of his ears; but has inflicted VOL. III. B ⚫ on |