Philanthropia metropolitana : a view of the charitable institutions established in and near London, chiefly during the last twelve years / by A. Highmore.

  • Highmore, A. (Anthony), Jr., 1758-1829.
Date:
1822
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    also a perfect equality. This appeared by the feasts of charity in which all were indiscriminately assem- bled, by the names of brethren and sisters, by which they mutually saluted each other; and by several circumstances of a like nature. Nor in the first century was the distinction made between Christians of a more or less perfect order, which took place afterwards. (Mosh. i. 100.) Their mu- tual use of a general contribution from what each possessed, towards a common fund for necessary support in all cases, was the first effusion of a holy spirit, which, as in the case of Barnabas, induced them to sell their lands and lay them for the common good at the apostle's feet: having* their hearts, says Dr. Clarke (v. x. 176.), filled with a most excellent spirit of love and charity, they either all, or at least most of them, voluntarily agreed to sell what they had, and putting it into the apostle's hand, they were for the future equally maintained out of it, as by a public stock: and nothing can more clearly show how genera] and inexclusive this distribution was, than the choice of seven new deacons, because of some partiality then suspected by the foreign Jews against the former, who were natives of Pales- tine ; and that of these, six were foreigners, and not of the Hebrew nation, as appears by their names (Acts vi. 5.), and the seventh was chosen out of the proselytes of Jerusalem; and all these particularly ministered to the necessities of the poor. (1 Mo- sheim 104.) In