Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §23 · John Wesley

Trusting him as our end

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It implies (what is nearly allied to the other) trusting in God as our end, to have an eye to him in all things, to use all things only as means of enjoying him. Wherever we are or whatever we do, to see him who is invisible looking on us well pleased, and refer all things to him in Christ Jesus.

1771 text

It implies (what is nearly allied to the other) to trust in God, as our end; to have an eye to him in all things; to use all things only as means of enjoying him: wheresoever we are, or whatsoever we do, to see him that is invisible, looking on us well-pleased, and refer all things to him in Christ Jesus.

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The ninth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:24-34: no one can serve God and mammon, so take no anxious thought and seek first the kingdom of God.

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 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.

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