Frugality the support of charity : a sermon, preached before the governors of the Infirmary for the counties of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumberland ... To which is annexed, a report of the state of the charity.

  • Edmund Tew
Date:
1756
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Frugality the support of charity : a sermon, preached before the governors of the Infirmary for the counties of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumberland ... To which is annexed, a report of the state of the charity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1° ] who has confirmed his Sub fiance ?—And all per¬ haps from the mean Motive of Vanity, or for the Profpcft of a Something, which will not intirely heal, but barely (kin over his feffering Wounds. Whereas a heady moderate Courfe of living ren¬ ders a Man independent of wicked Perfons, pre¬ vents fetting his Foot where he cannot tread with¬ out After-repentance, and makes him thoroughly fenfible, that Places and Preferments may be ho¬ nourably declined, when they commence the Wages of Iniquity, nor are to be acquired but by fup- planting true Merit—And certainly too, Fruga¬ lity is of valf Service in common Life, if it diverts w * A ‘ * I that ffrong Byas, which the prefent J imes have, to expenfive Entertainments—Even its Appear¬ ance may hinder pecvifli Men from difappointing their ncareff Relations, and the Reality open the Eyes of the Prudent of both Sexes to add to their virtuous Management-and for a more lading Reward, it will fupply you with the Means of ar¬ riving at the highelt of all Honours, that of being Helpers of the Fricndlefs. Nor muff I forget, that Frugality alfo is the Mother of National Li¬ berty. It is the Corruption of thofc who have lavifhly brought themfelvcs into Neccflities, which barters it away, and undermines a free State, Frugality will of itfelf preferve Equality, not by making all equally rich, for that is neither poflible or