Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IV · §27 · John Wesley

A city on a hill

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And first, it is impossible for any who have it to conceal the religion of Jesus Christ. Our Lord makes this plain beyond all contradiction by a twofold comparison. You are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hidden.

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And, first, it is impossible for any that have it, to conceal the religion of Jesus Christ. This our Lord makes plain beyond all contradiction, by a two-fold comparison. Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon an hill cannot be hid.

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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.

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

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