A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Hereford, on Thursday the third of August, 1797, at the annual meeting to the General Infirmary in that city / By John Duncumb, A.M.

  • John Duncumb
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1797
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Credit: A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Hereford, on Thursday the third of August, 1797, at the annual meeting to the General Infirmary in that city / By John Duncumb, A.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rather a general fpirit of love, extending both to God and our fellow-creatures, than to that particu¬ lar branch which confifts in relieving others; but St. James has written, “ if a brother or filler be naked and dellitute of daily food, and one of you fay unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled, notwithftanding ye give them not thofe things which are needful for the bodv, what doth it profit ?”* And this particular lirels appears to be laid, becaufe the benevolence recommended is not only that temper and difpofition of mind, which is the highefi improvement of our rational nature, but alfo becaufe it is that temper and difpofition which inclining us to do good and to take pleafure in do¬ ing it, conllitutes the happinefs of intelledlual crea¬ tures. “ The effedt which thefe and fimilar precepts of Chrillianity, produced on fome of its firft con¬ verts, was fuch as might be expedled from a divine religion coming with full force and miraculous evi¬ dence on the confciences of mankind. It over¬ whelmed all worldly confiderations in the thoughts of a more important exiftence,”j* and “ the mul¬ titude of them that believed were of one heart and one foul; neither faid any of them, that ought of the things which he polfdfed was his own, but they had all things commonTJ * James ii. 15 and 16. f Paley’s Philofophy. I Afts iv. 32. In
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