A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord mayor and court of alderman, at St. Bride's church, on Wednesday in Easter-week, April 11th. 1694 by John Hartcliffe ...
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- A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord mayor and court of alderman, at St. Bride's church, on Wednesday in Easter-week, April 11th. 1694 by John Hartcliffe ...
- Author
- Hartcliffe, John, 1651-1712.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Charles Harper ...,
- 1694.
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- Bible. -- O.T. -- Job XXXI, 19 -- Sermons.
- Charity -- Sermons.
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"A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord mayor and court of alderman, at St. Bride's church, on Wednesday in Easter-week, April 11th. 1694 by John Hartcliffe ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45741.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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To the Right Honourable Sir William Ashurst, Knight, LORD-MAYOR, &c.
My Lord,
A Discourse upon Charity (tho it be much below the Dignity of the Subject) must be welcome to your Lordship, because this Vertue seems so very agreeable to your natural Temper, as it appears in your Methods of Governing this great City, which are like those of Charity in a Religious course of Life, prudent, steddy, just and peaceable. Every good Man, in his Station, is bound to do what he can towards the Amendment of an Evil Age; but the chief Magistrate of so famous a City, and the worthy Governours of the Hospitals thereof, are great and eminent Examples, which must have a stronger Power to persuade others to be good,
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than any Arguments besides. Now, for all our Di∣seases, the most efficacious Remedy is the Practice of Charity, which is very much in the Power of Rulers to apply well, and with the most pro∣bable Success. Therefore that your Lordship, together with the liberal and generous Patrons of the Poor in this place, may be found so doing when our Master shall come to call you to the Re∣gions of the Blessed, where nothing but perfect Charity and Peace reign for ever, is the Prayer of Your Lordship's most humble and obedient Servant, John Hartcliffe.