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.

  • Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761.
Date:
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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    Miferies and Sufferings of our Fellow Creatures. Nor are thefe Sentiments peculiar to Chriftianity, they have their Foundation in Nature, and extend as far as Reafon and Senfe prevail $ and it is to the Pen of an Heathen we owe that memorable Say¬ ing, Homo fum> nihil humanum a me alienum puto. But however agreeable thefe Works are to the Senfe and Reafon of Mankind whilft they confider them only in general, yet in making the Applica¬ tion to particular Cafes in order to Pradtice, many Difficulties are moved; and Men unwilling to un¬ dergo the Trouble or the Expence which attend on Works of Charity, or to lay afide their Preju¬ dices and Refentments againft Perfons whofe Mis¬ fortunes and Calamities have reduced them to be Objedts of Charity, have found out many Limi¬ tations on thefe Duties$ and have let in fo many partial Confiderations and Reftridtions, that Mer¬ cy and Humanity, which naturally extend to all the World, feldom reach to one Country, often¬ times not to all the Parts of one Family. To remove thefe kinds of Pretences or Preju¬ dices was the diredt View of our Lord in ftating the Cafe of the good Samaritan; and the Perfon dilcourfing with him led him into this Confide- ration, by admitting the Love of our Neighbour to be a fundamental Duty, and immediately en- 2 quiring