A20764:142
The plea of the poor. Or A treatise of beneficence and alms-deeds teaching how…The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how…
The plea of the poor. Or A treatise of beneficence and alms-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and persuading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the works of mercy are so much neglected, or so undiscreetly practiced. Published by John Downame Bachelor in Divinity.The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Ralph Mabbe, 1616
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.
CHAP. 6. That we ought to visit the poor, that we may the better perform these works of mercy.
CHAP. 6. That we ought to visit the poore, that we may the better performe these workes of mercy.
Sect. 1. That we ought to visit the poor.
Sect. 1. That we ought to visit the poore.
Now that this compassion may the more affect our hearts, and both exercise and manifest it self in the works of mercy, it is fit, that not only we take notice of the miseries and ⟨p. 55⟩wants of the poor by the ear and report of others, but also that we often visit them, and so be eye-witnesses of their calamities. For this the Apostle James maketh a note and badge of that religion which is pure and undefiled before God, not only to relieve the poor, but to visit the fatherless 1and widows in their afflictions. Jam. 1. 27. And our Saviour numbereth it among those works of mercy, which at the day of judgement 2he will reward with everlasting blessedness.