Sermon Preached 11 April 1694, Half title – Dedication
Mr. HARTCLIFFE's SERMON, BEFORE The LORD MAYOR, &c.
Aſhurſt Mayor.
Martis xvii. die Aprilis 1694. Anno que Regis & Reginae Will. & Mariae, Angl. &c. ſexto.
THis Court doth deſire Mr. Hartcliffe to print his Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Governours of the ſeveral Hoſpitals of this City, on Wedneſday in Eaſter-Week laſt, at the Pariſh-Church of S. Brides.
Goodfellow.
A SERMON Preached before The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR AND Court of ALDERMEN, AT St. BRIDE's CHURCH, ON Wedneſday in Easter-Week, April 11th. 1694.
BY JOHN HARTCLIFFE, B. D. and Canon of Windſor.
May 1. 1694. Imprimatur, GEO. ROYSE.
LONDON: Printed for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-luce over againſt St. Dunſtan's Church, Fleetſtreet, 1694.
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, than any Arguments beſides. Now, for all our Diſeaſes, 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 probable 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 Regions 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.