Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IV · §53 · John Wesley

Let your light so shine before people

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Notwithstanding all these plausible pretenses for hiding it, let your light so shine before people, that they may see your good works (Matthew 5:16) and glorify your Father who is in heaven. This is the practical application which our Lord himself makes of the foregoing considerations.

1771 text

IV. 1. Notwithstanding all these plausible pretences for hiding it, Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. This is the practical application which our Lord himself makes of the foregoing considerations.

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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.

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

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