iv DEDICATION, 



Light. It is thus made more gene- 

 rally, and more extenfivelj xifeful, 

 than it jqpuld be by any other Mean 

 And your Humanity, . Benevolepoe, 



and generous Charities, fhall, being 





thus delivered to the public Eye, an 



continued down perhaps to another 

 Generation, be an Example to thofe 



who never faw you ; and blefs the 



Defcendants of thofe Thoufands, 

 whom your Hand as relieved. 



Virtues, like yours. Madam, in any 

 Age, would have been confpicuous ; 



but in the prefent, where all Good 



nefs is fo much difreg-arded, the 



fhine with a new Luftre. To be 



ge 



nerous at a Time, w^hen Profufion 

 in Follies renders others Niggards 



in good Things ; to relieve, becau 



the Objedl is diftreffed, not becaufe 

 fome particular Voice or Intereft re- 

 commends him ; and to maintain a 

 Senfe of Religion, as the Support of 

 Virtue ; and a Futurity as the Pe- 

 riod in which it fhall be rewarded, at 

 a Time when JPartiahty direds even 



thofe 



