The excellency of publick charity

a sermon preach"d before the University of Oxford in New-College-Chappel, on the Feast of the Annuntiation, 1697

by Henry Downes

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Published 1697 by Printed for Charles Harper in London .
Written in English

Subjects:

Charity -- Sermons,
Sermons, English -- 17th century

Edition Notes

The Physical Object
Statement	by H. Downes
Series	Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1256:15
Format	Microform
Pagination	33 p
Number of Pages	33
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL15030772M

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The Pastorage of Souls ought to be a Publick Charge even upon a Civil Account. Ibid. The use of Schools and Universities, as they are a publick charge. 3: The common and general Causes, . See Schmidt, Jeremy, “ Charity and the Government of the Poor in the English Charity-School Movement, circa –,” The Journal of British Stud no. 4 Cited by: 3.

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A defence of the charity-schools wherein the many false, scandalous, and malicious objections of those advocates for ignorance and irreligion, the author of The fable of the bees, and Cato's. Edwards teaches that there is an admirable conjunction of diverse excellencies in Jesus Christ.

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