The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries. A sermon preached before His Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, President; and the governors of the London Infirmary, in Goodman's-Fields, for the relief of sick and diseased manufacturers, and seamen in merchant-service, etc., at the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, March 25, 1743 / By ... Isaac, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

  • Isaac Maddox
Date:
1743
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Credit: The duty and advantages of encouraging public infirmaries. A sermon preached before His Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, President; and the governors of the London Infirmary, in Goodman's-Fields, for the relief of sick and diseased manufacturers, and seamen in merchant-service, etc., at the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, March 25, 1743 / By ... Isaac, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nour, the reward of fuch beneficence, al], plead the moving caufe of fo much innocent diftrefs! Can the leaf! doubt remain in any breaft whether this pious and ufeful defign, underta¬ ken with difinterefted compaflion and con¬ duced with great prudence, deferves appro¬ bation, or cenfure ? whether an eftablifhment, fo helpful to the fore calamities of our fel¬ low-creatures, fhouldbe generoufly encouraged, or totally deftroyed ? I fpeak it diftinCly, totally deftroyed-For thofe, who refufe a proper affiftance, when it is in the power of their hand to grant it, declare aloud by filch refufal-Let this defign perifti and come to nought. Not to fupport fo humane an undertaking, is, to the extent of our power, to fubvert it as effectually, as the with-holding food mu ft prove fatal to an helplefs infant. Indifference and difregard, or the fmoother language of an empty applaufe, with kind willies and good hopes, that encourage¬ ment may arife elfewhere to fupport the ufe¬ ful project; what is all this, but aggravating the guilt of an avaricious and uncharitable mind ? What is it, but publickly owning, we D 2 ought
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