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…

Use. 2 ¹Use 2. Reproof. If this be the effigies of a good man, he is of a charitable disposition, then it doth sharply reprove those that are far from this temper, who are all for gathering, but nothing for dispersing. ^*They move only within the Circle of their own interest; but do not indulge the necessities of others. They have a flourishing estate, but like him in the Gospel, they have a withered ⟨p. 28⟩hand and cannot stretch it out to good uses. They have all quoad [Greek or Hebrew] not quoad [Greek or Hebrew]. These are like the churl Nabal, 1 Sam. 25. 11. shall I take my bread and my water and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be. 'Twas said of the Emperor Pertinax, he had ^*a large Empire, but a narrow scanty heart.

Use. 2 ¹Vse 2. Reproofe. If this be the effigies of a good man, he is of a charitable disposition, then it doth sharply reprove those that are far from this temper, who are all for gathering, but nothing for dispeirsing. ^*They move onely within the Circle of their own interest; but do not indulge the necessities of others. They have a flourishing estate, but like him in the Gospel, they have a withered ⟨p. 28⟩hand and cannot stretch it out to good uses. They have all quoad 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 not quoad 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. These are like the churl Nabal, 1 Sam. 25. 11. shall I take my bread and my water and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be. 'Twas said of the Emperour Pertinax, he had