Various instructions and additional prescriptions for the service and guidance of those who make their application to the charitable distribution in the hope of being alleviated of their distress : delivered gratis with their books.

Date:
[1813?]
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Credit: Various instructions and additional prescriptions for the service and guidance of those who make their application to the charitable distribution in the hope of being alleviated of their distress : delivered gratis with their books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    VARIOUS INSTRUCTION'S, AND ADDITIONAL PRESCRIPTIONS, FOR THE SERVICE AND GUIDANCE OF THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR APPLICATION TO THE CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION, 1ST THE HOPE OF BEING ALLEVIATED OF THEIR DISTRESS. CDELT7ERED GRATIS WITH THEIR BOOKS. J Hapless and helpless Victims of the fatal ignorance and perver- sity prevailing in this world— You must be advised that before you make any attempt to have your bodies purified, you ought to begin first to have your minds cleansed of the filth and noxious impression, which they have been exposed to receive from malicious in- tention, and the predominant infection issued from pestiferous detracting mouths, and the venomous tongues of the inexorable foes to human welfare, and the partial advocates and friends of hnman distress and maladies. And for what concerns this last resource, generally and generously offered to diminish your acute infirmities, after having exhausted and baffled the skill and mor- tiferous power of fictitious scieace, then be aware of not making use of the same contempt for the expedients that your urgent situation constrains you to apply, and provisionally impress on your minds the thoughts, that the individual liberally offering you assistance, does but deliver to obtain it, the pledge of the wisdom and solicitude of the Omni-Parent and the heavenly- Author of Nature, and his paternal work for the benefit of his distressed children. Therefore, to prevent yourselves from doubting of your own Maker's goodness, and also of his bounti- ful benevolence, and not expose his genuine creation to be wan- tonly cavilled, prostituted, and impiously despised, scoffed, 8? in4 suited, by his blaspheming progeny; and to avoid your injustice thereof, asd disbelief in the Creator's heedfulness, be serious, at