Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse II · §9 · John Wesley

Anger in the heart

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Our Lord here ranks under the head of murder even that anger which goes no further than the heart, which does not show itself by any outward unkindness, no, not so much as a passionate word.

Whoever is angry with his brother, with any living person, since we are all brothers and sisters, whoever feels any unkindness in his heart, any temper contrary to love, whoever is angry without a cause, without a sufficient cause, or further than that cause requires, shall be in danger of the judgment. He shall in that moment be exposed to the righteous judgment of God.

1771 text

8. Our Lord here ranks under the head of murder, even that anger which goes no farther than the heart; which does not shew itself by any outward unkindness; no, not so much as a passionate word.

Whosoever is angry with his brother, with any man living, seeing we are all brethren, whosoever feels any unkindness in his heart, any temper contrary to love: whosoever is angry without a cause, without a sufficient cause, or farther than that cause requires, shall be in danger of the judgment, ἔνοχος ἔστι· shall in that moment be obnoxious to the righteous judgment of God.

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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.

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

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