A25470:1113
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
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.
6. They are a great scandal and shame to the Government of the Nation wherein they are. For their course of life implieth, that no good provision is made for the poor; nor order taken to set such as are able to work, and to relieve such as are impotent. Now it is a great sin to be a shame to ones own Country.
7. Their kind of life is sensual and brutish; for as brutes they spend all their days in seeking food for their bodies.
7. Their kinde of life is sensual and brutish; for as brutes they spend all their daies in seeking food for their bodies.
From hence it followeth, that they who relieve such, make themselves accessary to the fore-mentioned sins.
There are some allega ions made for relieving such; but they are undue allegations, and may easily be answered; The chiefest of them is this.