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IyY,
le]urnb.VII.
`
abroad, and
took notice
of
it in print, and told the World that
I
intended to
take more
hereafter;
and ever
frnce,
I
took
the
fifteenth Book
(
for my
Friends
'
and fell) and Eighteen pence more for every Rheam
of
the other fourteen
;
which
I
deftinated to
the Poor.
With
this,
while
I
was
at
Xiddersriinffer,
I
'
bought
Bibles
to
give
to
all
the poor Families: And
I
got
Three
hundred or Four.
hundred
ounds,
which
I
deftinated
all
to Charitable Ufes
:
At
last
,
at
London,
'
it
increafed
to Eight
hundred and
thirty pounds,
which delivering to
a
worthy
Friend,
he put it into
the
Hands
of
Sir Robert
Viner
(
with an Hundred
pounds
`
of
my
Wives)
where
it
lyeth
fetled
on
a
Charitable
!fife
after
my Death,
as
from
the
first
I
refolved
If
it
fails
I
cannot
help
it.
I
never received more
of
any
'
Bookfeller
than the
fifteenthBook
, and
this
Eighteen pence a Rheam. And
if
'
for after
ImprefHons
I
had more of
thofe Fifteenths
than
I
gave
away,
I
took
`
about
two third
parts
of the
common price
of the
Bookfeller
(or
little
more) and
'
oft left
:
And
fometimes
I
paid
my fell
for
the printing many Hundreds
to give
`
away, and
fometimes
1
bought them
of
the
Bookfeller ,
above my number,
and
'
and
fometimes
the Gain
was
my
own
neceffary
Maintenance
; but
I refolved
ne-
ver to
lay
up
a
Groat of
it
for any but the Poor.
Now,
Sir,
my
own Condition
is
this:
Of
my Patrimony or
(mall
Inheritance,
never took
a
Penny to my
Pelf,
my poor Kindred needing much more,
I
am
fifteen
or
16 years divefted
of
all Ecclefiaftical
Maintenance
:
I
never had
any
Church or Ledlure
that I
received Wagesfrom
:
But
within
these
three or four
`
years,
much againftmy Difpofrtion,
I
am
put to
take
Money
of
the Bounty
of
fpecial
particular Friends
;
my
Wives
Eftate being
never
my
Propriety, nor
'
much morethan
half our
yearly Expence.
If then it be any
way unfit for
me
`
to receive
filch
a Proportion
as
aforefaid,
as
the Fruit
of
my own long and hard
`
Labour, for
my
Neceffary and Charitable
lifts
;
and
if
they that
never took
` pains
for ir, have more right than
I,
when
every
Labourer
is
Matter of
his
own, or
if
I
may
not
take fome
part with them ,
I
know
not
the reafon
of
any
`
of
this.
Mtn
grudge
not at
a Cobler, or a
Tailor
,
or
any Day
-
labourer,
for
living
on his Labours: And why an
ejedted
Minifter
of Chrilt,
giving freely
`
five
parts
to a Bookfeller,may
not
take the
sixth
to
himfelf,
or to
the
Poor,
I
know
nor. But what
is
the Thought
or
Word
of Man?
`
Dr.
Bates
now
tells
me,
that
for his
Book called
the
Divine
Harmony,
he.
had
'
above
an Hundred pounds,
(yet
referving
the Power
for
the
future to
himfelf)
'
For
divers Impreflïons
of
the
Saints
Ref , almoft twice
as
big
,
I
have
not had
a
`
Farthing:
For no
Book have
I
had more
than
the
fifteenthBook
to my felt
and
Friends, and the Eighteen pence a Rheam for the Poor and
Works
of
Charity,
`
which the
Devil
fo
hateth, that
I
find
it a
matter
pail
my
power, to
give
my
`
own
to any Good
Ufe;
he
fo
robs me
of
it,
or maketh Men
call
it
a
Scandalous
`
Thing. Verily,
since I
devoted
all
to God
,
I
have found
it harder
to
Give
it
(when
Ido
my
belt) than to get it
:
Though
I
fubmit
of
late
to
him
partly
upon
`
Charity,
and am fo far fromlaying up
aGroat,
that (though
I
hate Debt)
I
am
'long
in Debt,
&c. &c.
&c.
$
1
R,
Tours,
R.B.
Numb.