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
Date:
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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    end for which it is given, than it can do by any pri¬ vate or feparate beneficence.”* To fubflitute hope for defpair, to alleviate the poignancy of unexpe&ed diftrefs—to foothe affliction ---and to adminifter comfort on the bed of defpon- dency and ficknefs—-are aCtions which every gene¬ rous mind muft feel a pleafure in performing: It is yours to distribute thefe bleffmgs around you, and yours to enjoy the fatisfaCtory relult. Expofed as we all are, not only to natural infirmities, but to vari¬ ous and fudden calamities, which no human forefight can diftinguifh, nor human care prevent; how anxious fhould we be, to lighten the nailery of thofe, who al¬ though differing from us in the means of comfort and relief, are (till fellow-creatures with ourfelves, formed of the fame materials, poffeffed of the fame feelings, and endowed with every property common to our na¬ ture. But, unfortunately, general arguments will not alone apply to the immediate fubjeCt of our confi- deration: £C in the common courfe of nature, the Charity has been deprived of many of its beft Be¬ nefactors ; the general preffure of the times,” un¬ paralleled in the hiftory of this nation, “ has alfo very confiderablv tended to the reduction of its in¬ come,”-)- and ££ we are informed, that without fpe- cial and extraordinary aid, an inftitution of the moft approved and extenfive utility will be neceffitated to * Paley. f Governors’ Addrefs, See. abridge,
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