Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §24 · John Wesley

To love him

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Thus to believe is the first thing we are to understand by serving God. The second is to love him.

1771 text

5. Thus to believe, is the first thing we are to understand by serving God. The second is, To love him.

About this text

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.

Reference

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

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