A sermon preached before the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary at St. Mary's Church in Oxford on Wednesday, July 3, 1771 / by the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Oxford ... ; to which is annexed an account of the establishment of the infirmary.

  • Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787.
Date:
1771
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Credit: A sermon preached before the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary at St. Mary's Church in Oxford on Wednesday, July 3, 1771 / by the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Oxford ... ; to which is annexed an account of the establishment of the infirmary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) for the lick all thefe things are provided for numbers together, in the completed: manner, at the eafied ex¬ pence, and applied to the bed: advantage; and cha¬ rity fupplies all the real wants of the poored and meaned, even more regularly and effe&ually, than opulence ufually fupplies them to thofe of the highed rank. The greated obdru&ion to the exercife of the duty of almfgiving is the danger of abufe, and the fear of mifapplication ; a fear but too well grounded, when we daily fee fraud putting on every difguife, and continually lying in wait, to impofe on the piety of the good, and the humanity of the benevolent. But in thefe charitable Inditutions there can be no room for fuch apprehenlions : the nature of them excludes all ground of fufpicion ; the form of them all probability of abufe. On the part of the objects of them, there can be no impofition : what is there in them to allure vice, and to invite impodure ? or if they fhould offer themfelves, how can they efcape detection ? On the part of the promoters and difpen- fers of fuch charities, what poflible apprehenfion of intereded views and finider defigns ? when the ma¬ nagement of them is committed to many and different hands, openly adminidered, regularly accounted, and laid