“Liberallity” is Winthrop’s term for charitable giving, the happy material consequence of the feeling of mercy. He introduces this term in his discussion of mercy. He does not define it exactly—instead leaving it open to a wide range of material interpretations, like giving to the poor, healing the sick, or supporting the weak.
Liberallity Quotes in A Model of Christian Charity
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A Model of Christian Charity
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[…] in this duty of love wee must love brotherly without dissimulation, wee must love one another with a pure hearte fervently wee must beare one anothers burthens, wee must not looke onley on our owne things, but allsoe on the things of our brethren […] wee must entertain each other in brotherly affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, commerce together in all meekenes, gentleness, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in eache other, make others condicions and our owne rejoyce together, mourne together, labour, and suffer together […].
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A Model of Christian Charity
...six important practical considerations for a merciful life in society. These have to do with “liberallity” (giving money or goods) or lending. The first consideration is that people ought to give...
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...order to inspire action. But once truly felt, love will “natively bring forthe” mercy and liberality, “as any cause doth produce the effect.”
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