The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper.
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The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper.
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Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.
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London :: Printed [by T. Snodham] for T. Pauier, and are to be sold in Iuy Lane,
1615.
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Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19280.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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CHAP. XVI.
Heere then is a Glasse for diuers sorts
of men to looke their faces in.
1 FOr those that rob their Ministers
in tithes and offerings.Mal. 1.
2 That deny contributions to the
poore, and enlarge not towards them.
3 For Officers in corporations, who
are put in trust with Legacies giuen to
the poore, that they imploy them to the
best aduantage.
4 For such ouerseers of Testaments,
that they licke not their owne fingers,
but faithfully distribute.
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5 For masters of Hospitals, that they
make not their places matter of prefer∣ment,
but indeed, as they were first in∣tended,
places of bounty, &c.
6 For Almoners, &c. that they beare
not the bagge as Iudas did, and thinke
the cost ill bestowed that is imployed
on Christs poore members.
7 For euery priuate Christian to make
him friends of his Mammon, &c.