8vo. [2], 32pp. With half title. Recent marbled paper wrappers, new endpapers. Original stab holes visible, with related marginal tear to half-title. Some browning and marking, especially to half-title.

A rare, powerful sermon on the Christian duty of relieving poverty by John Young, minister of the Anti-Burgher congregation at Hawick. Better known for his popular Essays....On Government. II. Revolutions... (Glasgow, 1794), mentioned in the preface to this present volume, Young's rhetoric on the duty of powerful is heady stuff: 'The law of God has fixed no determinate proportion of our possessions to be given for the relief of others. Yet he who gives nothing, or who gives in no due proportion to his own circumstances, or to those of his necessitous brother, is as really guilty of sun, as he who steals or defrauds. The poor have as real, and as just a right, by virtue of the command of God, to a share of our superfluities, and even of our conveniences, as a labourer has to his wages, or a credito to the payment of his debt.'

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