The beast of reason

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Once in a season, beasts too taste of love. Only the beast of reason is its slave, and in that folly drudges all the year.

1771 text

“Once in a season, beasts too taste of love: Only the beast of reason is its slave, And in that folly drudges all the year.”

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On Genesis 6:5: against flattering pictures of human nature, the Bible's account of a heart that is evil until God renews it.

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.

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Sermon 44 in the 1771 Works. Genesis 6:5.

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