“Who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God? as it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, Inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me.”

— Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125

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