The nature and extent of charity. A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Jekyll, Kt., Master of the Rolls, President, Thomas Green, Esq., Vice-President, and other Trustees of the Infirmary in James-Street, Westminster : at the parish-church of S̳t̳. Margaret, on occasion of their anniversary meeting, April 26. 1735 / By ... Thomas, Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

  • Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761.
Date:
1735
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Credit: The nature and extent of charity. A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Jekyll, Kt., Master of the Rolls, President, Thomas Green, Esq., Vice-President, and other Trustees of the Infirmary in James-Street, Westminster : at the parish-church of S̳t̳. Margaret, on occasion of their anniversary meeting, April 26. 1735 / By ... Thomas, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and every degree of Mercy, is an Objed of Mercy; and whether Men are expofed to Calamities by the Neceffity of their Condition, and the over-ruling Providence of God, or whether they bring them on themfelves by Sin and Wickednefs, or by Folly and Indifcretion, yet ftill, confidered as miferable, they are Objeds of Pity. If this were not fo, Mercy would not be one of the Attributes of the Deity, for he is not moved by a Fellow-feeling of our Calamities, or any Apprehenfion forhimfelf, for no Evil can approach him. Sin and Wick-? ednefs are attended with Guilt as well as Mifery, and therefore alfo Objeds of Juftice and Puniffi- ment; and it may, perhaps, be a Cafe attended with Difficulties, when we attempt to reconcile the Operations of Juftice and Mercy, with refped to the fame Subjed. But if God be a God of Mercy, as undoubtedly he is , the Conclufion muft ftand, that Mifery viewed by the Eye of Reafon, is an Objed of Compaffion ; and the Confequence muft be, that in the reafon of Things, Mercy is as extenfive as Mifery; and not to be confined by any particular or partial Confi- derations, to Mifery of one Kind, or of one Man more than another. If we confider ourielves, therefore, merely as reafonable Creatures, no Rea— fon can be affigned for excluding any Objed of Mifery from our Pity and Compaffion. But if we confider our felves as Men, there is another, 1