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A plea for alms delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…A plea for almes delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…
A plea for alms delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn assembly of the city, on Tuesday in Easter week, April. 13. 1658. / By Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook. Lond.A plea for almes delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn assembly of the city, on Tuesday in Easter week, April. 13. 1658. / By Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook. Lond.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
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'Tis worth our observation, what great care God took of the poor, besides what was given privately, God made many Laws for the public and visible relief of the poor, Exod. 23. 11. The seventh year thou shall let the land rest and lye still, that the poor of thy people may eat, &c. Gods intention in this Law was that the poor should ⟨p. 18⟩be liberally provided for. *They might freely eat of any thing which did grow of it self this seventh year; whether of herbs, vines, or Olive-trees. If it be asked how the poor could live only on these fruits, there being (as it is probable) no Corn growing then? For answer, Cajetan is of opinion they lived by selling these fruits, and so converting them into money, lived upon the price of the fruits.
'Tis worth our observation, what great care God took of the poor, besides what was given privately, God made many Lawes for the publick and visible relief of the poor, Exod. 23. 11. The seaventh year thou shall let the land rest and lye still, that the poor of thy people may eat, &c. Gods intention in this Law was that the poor should ⟨p. 18⟩be liberally provided for. *They might freely eat of any thing which did grow of it self this seaventh year; whether of herbs, vines, or Olive-trees. If it be asked how the poor could live onely on these fruits, there being (as it is probable) no Corne growing then? For answer, Cajetan is of opinion they lived by selling these fruits, and so converting them into money, lived upon the price of the fruits.
- *Ordinabatur ad commodum pauperum. Cornel. a lap.