The present, and future rewards of charity. A sermon preach'd before the right honourable the lord mayor, the aldermen, and governors of several hospitals of the City of London ... on ... April 9, 1729 / by Samuel Knight.

  • Knight, Samuel, 1675-1746.
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[1729]
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Credit: The present, and future rewards of charity. A sermon preach'd before the right honourable the lord mayor, the aldermen, and governors of several hospitals of the City of London ... on ... April 9, 1729 / by Samuel Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    good works, when they are not only taught, but pradtiled too, in a quite different manner and to much better purpofe in ours, than in the Church of Rome, with all her great fiwelling ‘words, and pompous pretences. Indeed we would have no¬ thing garifh and theatrical in them, but what is molt acceptable to God, and fo becoming a reafonable Jervice: not to be feen of Men, or being vainly puft up ‘with a flejhly mind, think we may be profitable to God, or lay in for a ftock of merit, but purely in obedience to God, and love to our Brethren for his fake, that fo God may have the Glory, Religion the Credit, and our felves may reap the Advantages of them in this World, and the Rewards of them in another. THE END.