Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IV · §2 · John Wesley

The salt of the earth

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You are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13). But if the salt has lost its savor, with what shall it be salted? It is from then on good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot by people. Matthew 5:13.

1771 text

Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt hath lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men.

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The fourth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 5:13-16: Christians as salt and light, and why Christianity is a social religion that cannot be hidden.

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 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.

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