more require that there should be someone who in the love of God,
and with zeal for the good of their souls, should aid them and secure
their welfare and health, spiritual and temporal, in the one case as
in the other.

Further, the reward, merit, and crown befitting the service done
to God our Lord by this, and to the royal Majesty, and the good
to this state and these islands, will not be small; since the
result and the advantages which will arise from it are so great
and so special, important, and universal; and this is a cause for
applying the compassion and Christian charity in this state to the
glory and service of God, to the welfare, relief, and consolation,
perhaps the salvation, of His creatures and the poor thereof; and
to the edification and confusion of the great numbers of barbarians,
heathens, and infidels whom we have as witnesses about us looking at
us, and who will see nothing that can move and edify them like such
works of true charity, performed without worldly payment and profit.

It will also result from this that the Confraternity of La
Misericordia, which is of such importance, and which succors,
aids, and relieves so many general and public necessities, would
ordinarily be supported in this state and would be more continuous,
and that charity and compassion would be more exercised, as has been
said. The hospital would be more frequented and more fully occupied,
and the poor better provided and served; and all this would result
because of the good order, careful accounting, and system which would
exist, on account of putting the control in the hands of persons of
such security, gravity, and commendable zeal as the deputies of the
said Confraternity. This will also be a cause that for the love and
service of God our Lord, as also for their own characters and persons,