ing, Thy Servant my Hufband is dead, and thou knowest that thy Servant did fear the Lord; And the Creditor is come to take unto him my two Sons to be Bondmen. And Elifba faid unto her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me what thou haft in the House Preached at St Nicholas's Church in Newcastle before the Governors of the Infirmary for the Counties of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumberland, on Thurfday May 23, 1751. Luke x. ver. 36, and part of 37. Which now of these three, thinkeft thou, was Neighbour to him that fell among the Thieves? Thefe Things write I unto thee, hoping to come But if I tarry long, that thou mayeft know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the House of ERRATU M. Page 55. line 29. for Sacramennts, read Sacraments A SER- A CHARITY-SERMON, for the Relief of poor Widows, and Children of Clergymen, within the Diocese of Durham: Preached before the Sons of the Clergy, at their Anniversary Meeting in St Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, Sept. 7, 1721. Deut. xiv. 28, 29. At the End of three Years thou shalt bring forth all the Tythe of thine Increase the fame Year, and fhalt lay it up within thy Gates. And the Levite (because he hath no Part nor Inheritance with thee) and the Stranger, and the Fatherless, and the Widow, which are within thy Gates, fhall come, and fhall eat and be fatiffed; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the Work of thine Hand which thou doest. A I. MONG the many wife and excellent S E R M. Provifions that God made for the Poor, in that Conftitution and Politie, which was wholly of his own ordering, and establish VOL I. B ing, I. SER M. ing, the Inftitution contained in the Text was one of the most confiderable. Whereby he obliged the Ifraelites, once in three Years, or a Exod Lev. xxv. a rather on every third Year after the Year of xxiii. 10. Releafe, to fet out a certain Proportion of the Deut. xv. Product of their Lands, for the Use of such 1. and 9. Perfons as had no certain Poffeffions among b Deut. xxvi. 12. and Grotius on the place. them. For there is no doubt, (though only four Sorts of Perfons are mentioned in the Text) but that all the Poor of the Land are included under thefe Names; and were all to partake of the Benefit of this Law, or Cuftom. Hence it was usually called by the Jews* the poor Man's Tythe: and likewife the Confummation or finishing of Tythes: Because their Charity, or Love of their Neighbour, was most of all confpicuous in this triennial Decimation of their Increase. It is indeed fomething doubtful, whether this Tythe (as to the Matter of it) was really diftinct from that which is commanded, at the and chap. 22d Verse of this Chapter, to be feparated xii. 5, 6, 7. & ver. 17, 18. C *Mifchna. in Tractatu de re dubia. cap. 4. Propterea hæc decima dicebatur-decima pauperis. Scalig. in Deut. xxvi. 13. Et quia pauperibus hæ etiam cedebant Ptochodecatæ dicæ Hieronymo funt. Amama, ap. Crit. Sac. for |