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The People shall have notice of Passing the Accounts, that so every one that please, may be there present, as well to dis∣charge those who disburse the Money, as to make known to every body the Necessities of the Church, and the Poor, thereby the more to incourage people to contribute towards their relief.
St. Austin practis'd something of this kind, as our Dis∣cipline doth here prescribe; for when the Church-stock fail'd, he gave notice to the Christian People, that he had not wherewithal to supply the wants of the Poor; which in all likelihood he would not have done, if on the other hand he had not given them an account how he had dispos'd of their Charity, and of the Money committed to his trust, * 1.1 and which he consign'd over to the manage∣ment of Persons, as he deem'd fit for the purpose, as is related at large by Possidonius, in the 24th Chapter of his Life.