VERY REVEREND Richard Ofbaldeston, D. D. Dean of York. SIR, to in Have taken the liberty Scribe this discourse in testimony of the great respect which I owe to your character in general; and from a fenfe of what is due to it in particular from every member of the Church of YORK. I wish I had as good a reafon for doing that, which has given 4 given me the opportunity of making so publick and just an acknowledgment; being afraid there can be little left to be faid upon the subject of Charity, which has not been often thought, and much better expressed by many who have gone before : and indeed, it seems so beaten and common a path, that it is not an easy matter for a new comer to diftinguish bimself in it, by any thing except the novelty of his Vehicle. : : I beg, however, Sir, your kind acceptance of it, and of the motives which have induced me to adaddress it to you; one of which, I cannot conceal in justice to mySelf, because it has proceeded from the fense of many favours and civilities which I have received from you. I am, SERMON V. I KINGS xvii. 16. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord which he Spake. by the prophet Elijah.. TH HE words of the text are the record of a miracle wrought in behalf of the widow of Zerephath, who had charitably taken Elijah under her roof, and administered unto him in a time of great scarcity and distress. There is fomething very interesting and affec tionate in the manner this story is related in holy writ; and as it concludes with a second still more remarkable VOL. I' I proof. |