The nature and extent of charity. A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Jekyll, Kt., Master of the Rolls, President, Thomas Green, Esq., Vice-President, and other Trustees of the Infirmary in James-Street, Westminster : at the parish-church of S̳t̳. Margaret, on occasion of their anniversary meeting, April 26. 1735 / By ... Thomas, Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

  • Thomas Sherlock
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1735
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Credit: The nature and extent of charity. A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Jekyll, Kt., Master of the Rolls, President, Thomas Green, Esq., Vice-President, and other Trustees of the Infirmary in James-Street, Westminster : at the parish-church of S̳t̳. Margaret, on occasion of their anniversary meeting, April 26. 1735 / By ... Thomas, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them from many Vices to which their richer Neighbours were expofech. How to adyife charitable Perfons to fteer clear of thefe Inconveniences in their privateBenefa¬ ctions, I know not ; perhaps it may be a good Rule in general not to be too curious, or hard to be fa tisfied in thefe Cafes.-- But with refpedt to the great Work of Charity,. which has called us together this Day, I can wdth Pleafure obferve to you, that it Hands free of thefe Difficulties; it will appear fo to do from the Nature of the Charity it felf, and the Method in which it is conducted ; and tho’ neither the Perfons who have undertaken this good Work defire to have their Praifes fes forth, nor is it my Intention to do it;- yet, in Ju- ftice to the Work itfelf, give me leave to mention very briefly fome Circumftances attending it that may recommend it to the Approbation of good People* -y v* ;• -y iOilL ja j In the firft Place then ; the Perfons admitted to partake in this Charity are real Obje&s, and from the Nature of the Thing they mull be fo : The Blind, the Lame, the Difeafed of various Kinds, refort hither for a Cure of their Evils. 1 That fuch are proper Objedls of Charity, there is no Doubt; but when Complaints of this Nature are ufed to move private Charity, they are often coun- D terfeited^
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