Christian Perfection · §74 · John Wesley

Lay my spirit in the dust

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Your faithful mercies let me find, in which you cause me to trust. Give me your meek and lowly mind (Matthew 11:29), and lay my spirit in the dust.

1771 text

Thy faithful mercies let me find In which thou causest me to trust; Give me thy meek and lowly mind, And lay my spirit in the dust.

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On Philippians 3:12: in what sense Christians are not perfect, and in what sense they are.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

Reference

Sermon 40 in the 1771 Works. Philippians 3:12.

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