A sermon preach'd at St. Brides before the Lord-Mayor and the Court of Aldermen: on Monday in Easter-Week. 1711 / By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

  • Gilbert Burnet
Date:
1711
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Credit: A sermon preach'd at St. Brides before the Lord-Mayor and the Court of Aldermen: on Monday in Easter-Week. 1711 / By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'Letus apply all thefe as far as we can, to our felves. Where ever one is caft by the Provi¬ dence of God, he ought to be concern’d in the Good of the Community: But the Obligation is the greater, if in that Community he finds all the Happinefs that can be expeCted in any Hu¬ mane Conftitution. In the Political Part of the Mofnical Law, there were noble Provifions made for all Sorts of People : the Rules of Juft ice were clear and well known : certain Titles to Eftates,and their Perpetuities made them improve their Fields to the uttermoft; and the Law a- gainft Ufury among them was calculated to oblige them all to a laborious Mechanical Indu- ftry, that being the only Way left among them of making Mony turn to any Account. There were great Provifions made for the Poor, and Families could not be long kept fo, for after 50 Years, all Mortgages were releafed, and the Inheritance was to revert to the Heirs. But without going farther into Reflections on that Conftitution, we have fuch Confiderations to value our own, as no Nation now under Heaven has the like. We are the great Eye- fore of Tyranny, under the trueft Ballance againft all Extreams. Oh that it may be ever kept fteady and equal! We have all poflible Encouragement to Induftry by the Security we have, that we and our Pofterity fhall enjoy the EffeCt of ourLabours: Our Lives and our Proper¬ ties cannot be touched but by the VerdiCt of our Neighbours, nor can any Charge be laid on us, but by thofe whom we choofe to Reprefent us. B 2 Our
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