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1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xxiii. 38 All your fre will offerynges whiche ye shall geue vnto the Lorde.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms liii[i]. 6 A frewil offeringe wil I geue the.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. A2 Dayly Sacrifices, and free will Offerings; The one proceeding vpon ordinarie obseruance..The other vppon a deuout cheerefulnesse. View more context for this quotation

1684 P. Ker Flosculum Poeticum 60 The tender buds of our young smiling spring We did present, a free-will offering.

1727 M. Davys Accomplish'd Rake 123 Let you and I make a Free-will-Offering of our Hearts to each other, they will soon take Root, and fix in our different Bosoms.

1784 J. Wesley Let. 3 July (1931) VII. 224 His service will do no good there unless it be a free-will offering.

1843 Times 16 Dec. 6/2 Of course the 1,800l. was intended to be a free will gift to the parish.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 44 The free-will offerings of their golden ornaments by the Libyan women.

1893 Jewish Q. Rev. 5 426 The Sadducees asserted that this offering should be brought as a free-will sacrifice by every individual.

1965 M. J. C. Calley God's People ix. 106 The 1960–1 income of a London congregation..consisted of £900 from tithes and £200 from free-will offerings.

1992 M. I. Holt Orphan Trains iii. 83 Funding for the endeavor came, in part, from the ‘free-will gifts’ of more fortunate children.