The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie.
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The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie.
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Downame, John, d. 1652.
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London :: Printed by Edward Griffin for Ralph Mabbe, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Grey-hound,
1616.
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Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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"The plea of the poore. Or A treatise of benificence and almes-deeds teaching how these Christian duties are rightly to be performed, and perswading to the frequent doing of them. Necessary for these times, wherein the workes of mercy are so much neglected, or so vndiscreetly practized. Published by Iohn Downame Bachelour in Diuinitie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20764.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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Sect. 8. Next vnto our Parents, our children are to be cared for.
After parents our next care ought to be for our children, of which I shall neede to say little be∣cause nature it selfe doth teach so much, and vnto them I adioyne the whole familie who are vnder the charge of the Gouernours, and therefore to be prouided for by them as well, in their place & kinde, as those that come out of their own loines. And though a mans kindred and friends may be neerer to him then many vnder his roofe, both in respect of blood and also louing affection; yet when he hath by admitting them into his family taken charge of them, he is to prouide for them before the other. According to that 1. Tim. 5. 8. If any prouide not for his owne and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse
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then an infidell.
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