Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse II · §41 · John Wesley

They shall obtain mercy

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So the merciful shall obtain mercy, not only by the blessing of God on all their ways, by his now repaying the love they bear to their brothers and sisters a thousandfold into their own bosom, but also by an exceeding and eternal weight of glory (2 Corinthians 4:17), in the kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of the world (Matthew 25:34).

1771 text

So shall the merciful obtain mercy: not only by the blessing of God, upon all their ways, by his now repaying the love they bear to their brethren, a thousand fold into their own bosom: but likewise by an exceeding and eternal weight of glory, in the kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of the world.

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The second sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 5:5-7: the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, and the merciful.

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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 22 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:5-7.

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