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 ] fame high Degree of Ufefulnefs and Credit, as it o o J is this Day. 4 Your Preacher alfo prefumes, that he fhali {peak a Word in Seafon, at this Juncture of af- fembling yourfelves for Divcrfions, and, more hap¬ pily, for giving annual Countenance to your In¬ firmary. But before I begin, I would beg Leave to make a few Obfervations upon the Miracle, which occafioned the Advice of the Text. * A s good People take the Wants and NecdTi- ties of others into their Confideration; fo our ge¬ nerous Mailer apprehended, that the Multitude, which followed him in iearch of fpirltual Do&rines, had not provided for their bodily Suftenance. And fo it proved-for he found, upon Inquiry, that the Stock among!! them All was but five Loaves and two fmalj Fifhes: and thefe were not fuflicient that every one of them might have a little. f f • 4 m I Ha d he been poiTeffed of the fplendid For¬ tunes, which many of you are, he would certain¬ ly have done what there is Reafon to think you would have done upon the fame Exigency. He would have given them Money to buy for them- felveSo