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The blessednesse of being bountifull, or, Our blessed Saviours usual proverb, opened, asserted, and practically improved by Simon Ford.
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Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.
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course of life but Begging or Thieving would be endangered to an almost inevitable ruine both of Body and Soul All of whom may through Gods blessing on your endeavours though like the guests in our Saviours Parable they be many of them gathered up by your Officers from the High-wayes and Hedges and brought into your Government by necessary compulsion prove as divers of them have done who to their own Honour as well as that of your City and to the Glory of God principally that directed and enabled you to make such provision for them have appeared and will hereafter no doubt Annually continue to appear in publick to give proof thereof honest and substantial Citizens A mercy for which next under God and the general influence of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this famous City they must acknowledge themselves infinitely obliged to the Fatherly care and diligent inspection of a publick spirited prudent vigilant and active President whose larger character I must forbear at present in tenderness to his modesty together with the worthy Governours his Assistants All that I have more to adde concerning both Hospitals at this Time is That it is to be hoped the blessedness you have already according to my Text found in your past Beneficences will encourage you beyond all the Rhetorick which if I had it I could bestow on such an Argument to go on and effectually promote such further designs as shall be suggested to you for the rendring them more usefull to the ends of these several Foundations And here give me leave I beseech you first of all to recommend to you the New-Building among all the famous Structures that your City hath raised for publick uses since the last dreadfull fire of your Hospital of Bethlem which I doe upon this consideration that those who have the particular Inspection of that Hospital and especially that learned and diligent Physician who can hardly be valued sufficiently for his great skill fidelity and industry in that employment have declared that they judge it very convenient if not necessary considering the great numbers that are continually sent thither for cure that their strait Accommodations of Lodging should be enlarged both as to Capacity and Conveniency but are discouraged in the pursuance of those thoughts by the prospect of the great charge thereof far exceeding the proportion of its small Revenues the smallest of any Hospital in London except they be assisted by some worthy Persons particular Munificences And next on the behalf of your other Hospital of Bridewell it is not unknown to the most of you that a very great part thereof was restored out of its ruines and rubbish since the late dreadfull Conflagration at its own charge whereupon their whole Stock being exhausted and the Building for a great part remaining likely to be left unfinished they must for ever acknowledge the seasonable Assistance of the Right Honourable the Lord Maior and the Court of Aldermen towards the perfecting of the Edifice out of the publick Purse without which those Wastes were like to have been Desolations of many Generations But yet when that great work is throughly finished which is now near done there will there also be farther need of additional private Charities First in order to the endowing a School already as to the case built for the improvement of the young Nurselings of your Charity the Blew Boyes in Reading Writing and casting Account c. at such hours as shall be assigned by the Governours with the least intrenchment that may be upon their Masters occasions Which if it were once effected it is not to be doubted but some of them that are of riper Capacities having their education thus heightened would when they come out of their time be enabled to apply themselves to more beneficial and advantageous imployments than they can expect the mean Manufactures they are there bred to will afford them And secondly in order to the more liberal rewarding of the most honest and industrious of them when they have faithfully served their Apprentiships with such an concouraging Stock to set up withall as might enter them into their new Callings with an hopefuller prospect of carrying them on in a thriving and creditable way Upon which expectation they would doubtless more generally be induced to acquiesce in the services allotted to them more contentedly follow their business more diligently and carry themselves in hope of their good word at parting to recommend them to your Bounty to their Masters more dutifully and not be tempted as too many daily are by the difficulties of getting a livelyhood by their Labours when they are free-men to run away and return again to the worse Trade they were first bred in These particulars I have presumed to suggest to your wisdoms not to limit them to my conceptions as if I knew better how to manage your Governments than your selves but only as probationers for your approbation and effectual concurrence in case upon due consideration you finde them worthy thereof Now the Lord give you all so affecting a sense of the Truths I have delivered concerning the blessedness of Giving above Receiving that you may be desirous of making experiment of it your selves and then give you to finde it every way as I have taught you in your Persons in your Houses in your Trades in your Memories in your Posterities and principally in your Souls and their everlasting Concerns in the last and great day of our Lord Jesus To whom c. 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