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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CHAP. III.
Of the true Giuer.
1 GEnerally onely the regenerate
man may truly giue, because he
onely hath right in what he hath. The
wicked being no better then theeues.
2 Particularly the rich are bound to
giue. 1 Iohn. 3. 17.. 2 Cor. 8. 14.
3 The poore euen of that little that
they haue, are also bound to giue. Ioh. 13.
29. Eph. 4. 28. As the widow must giue her
mite, seruants must giue of their wages.
4 Yea we must empouerish our selues
in some cases, to giue to others in cases of
necessitie. Act. 5. Nehem. 5.
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Exception.
1 Those that are in paricular subie∣ction
to others, as Seruants to Masters;
these may not giue in selling, &c. vnlesse
it be out of their wages.
2 Subiects cannot giue, but from that
generall authority committed by the
lawes of the land, vnto them, answerable
to the lawes of God, concerning relie∣uing
of the poore, &c.
3 The Wife may not giue in some ca∣ses,
vnlesse it be of such things as are
common to both. 2 As also of that
which she hath excepted from man∣nage.
3 And that with the consent of her
Husband, eyther expressed, or presu∣med,
from the generall liberty giuen to
her.
4 In a case of extremitie, when all
is like to be lost, and the Husband vn∣fit
to gouerne the family. 1 Samuel 25.
19.