A sermon preached at St. Mary's church in Oxford, on Tuesday, July 6, 1773 on occasion of the anniversary meeting of the governors of the Radcliffe infirmary / by William, lord bishop of Chester. Published at the request of the governors, for the benefit of the charity.

  • Markham, William, 1719-1807.
Date:
1773
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Credit: A sermon preached at St. Mary's church in Oxford, on Tuesday, July 6, 1773 on occasion of the anniversary meeting of the governors of the Radcliffe infirmary / by William, lord bishop of Chester. Published at the request of the governors, for the benefit of the charity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *5 ) their writers, as well as from the general practice of their nations, from their treatment of Slaves, and Captives, from their cruel diverlions, (other inftances might be multiplied,) that they had no juft notions of humanity or general benevolence. We are not now to be furprifed, that among all the Nations of Antiquity, as far as I am informed, there is no inftance to be found of any fuch Eftablifhment as an Infirmary. X cannot clofe this enquiry into the merits of the Heathen Moralifts, without asking their admirers, whether thefe fundamental notions, the Love of God, and a purity of heart, are to be found any where amongft them. Indeed it may be truly faid that their admirable reafonings were calculated much more to amufe the underftanding, than to move the heart, or to rectify the will and that however they might in¬ fluence the condudl of a few fpeculative men, they were in no wife capable of aftefting the People, or producing a reformation of manners. In performing this fervice, which I could not de¬ cline without a breach of duty, X may be thought perhaps