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The poor mans advocate, or, A treatise of liberality to the needy. Delivered in…The poore mans advocate, or, A treatise of liberality to the needy. Delivered in…
The poor mans advocate, or, A treatise of liberality to the needy. Delivered in sermons by William Whately minister of BanburyThe poore mans advocate, or, A treatise of liberality to the needy. Delivered in sermons by William Whately minister of Banbury
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 1637
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE POOR MANS ADVOCATE, OR A Treatise of Liberality to the needy.
THE POORE MANS ADVOCATE, OR A Treatise of Liberalitie to the needy.
PROV. 28.27. He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack, but he that hideth his eyes, shall have many a curse.
PROV. 28.27. He that giveth unto the poore shall not lacke, but he that hideth his eyes, shall have many a curse.
This sentence is left in GODS Book to quicken ⟨p. 2⟩men unto a much neglected duty, for that end it delivers a promise and a threat; showing in the former, what good shall come to them that are careful of the duty, in the latter what evil shall befall the promise note a duty standing in an action, that is, Giving, and the object of the action, to the poor. Every man knows what it is to give. as giving is strictly taken, viz. a bestowing of a thing upon another of my own free will, ⟨p. 3⟩which he cannot challenge of right otherwise. Now this giving is a thing much in use, but not to the right object here named, which are the poor. Much is given away to the Rich and those that need it not, as it were the pouring of water into the Sea, but into the empty vessel nothing is poured; but the duty which God would commend, is that which hath for its object a poor needy distressed man, who is destitute of things necessary and ⟨p. 4⟩