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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    Honour, Efteem and Reverence, are due to thofe who deferve Honour, Efteem and Reverence; but Love is a Debt due to all Men, and is a Debt never to be fully paid and exhaufted. Therefore St. Paul commands, that we render to every Man bis Due, Fear to whom Fear, Honour to whom Honour is due; but when he comes to fpeak of Love, he varies his Style, and confiders us in this Refpedf as Debtor to every Man ; owe no Man any Thing, but to love one another: As if he had faid, all other Debts due to particular Perfons, you mull take Care to difcharge ; but Love is due to all, and you mull never think of paying or clearing the Debt of Love to each other f for that is a Debt which will be owing as long as you live ; it is a perpetual Duty, and can never have an End. In the fame manner are the Precepts of Love and Mercy enjoined by our Blelfed Saviour in general Terms, not confining them to particular Objedls, but leaving them at large, and open, to be applied to all Men: Blejfed, fays he, are the merciful, for they Jhall obtain mercy : Had this been a Duty ow¬ ing to any Perfons, as they Hand particularly re¬ lated to us, our Lord would not have left this material Duty imperfedl, by negledling to fpecify the proper Obje&s of it; but having directed our Love and Mercy to no Men in particular, we muft conclude that all in general are the Obje&s of it. C 2 If