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.

  • Tew, Edmund, 1700-1770.
Date:
1756
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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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    Medicines, after repeated Trials in an Hofpital, than in private Families, where the Patients or their Attendants are frequently felf-willed, or lefs governable. Shall we fay alfo, that even the Covetous and Ambitious may fervc their Turns by carting in amongft us ? The one by faving his Money, the other by doing what is politic and popular. And O ! what»a fmcerc Joy is it to all good People, that at length there is eft'ablijhed an Houle of Re¬ treat and Safety for the Affli&ed, when their Lo¬ vers and their Friends could only ftand looking upon their Trouble, and their Kinfmen were afar off. Tho’ we cannot certify a Tick Man, or a Cripple, in the Words of an Aportle, JeJus Cbrift makeib thee whole, we may have the Comfort of faying in moft Cafes, The Infirmary, thro' God?s Blcfling upon the Means applied there, will return thee a found Man to thy needy and anxious Family. Now from what has been juft obferved, it fhould be the Wifdom of the Rich fb to live, that their Stores may not fail, as well as the Prayer of the Poor, that the Offerings of the Rich may ac¬ company their Ability. In this refpeft I am not able to conceive, how a Man, who is not frugal, can