Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §25 · John Wesley

With all our heart

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Now, to love God in the manner the Scripture describes, in the manner God himself requires of us, and by requiring engages to work in us, is to love him as the one God: that is, with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind and with all our strength (Mark 12:30). It is to desire God alone for his own sake, and nothing else but with reference to him, to rejoice in God, to delight in the Lord, not only to seek but find happiness in him, to enjoy God as the chiefest among ten thousand (Song of Solomon 5:10), to rest in him as our God and our all. In a word, to have such a possession of God as makes us always happy.

1771 text

Now, to love God in the manner the scripture describes, in the manner God himself requires of us, and by requiring engages to work in us, is to love him as the one God: that is, with all our heart and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength: it is to desire God alone for his own sake; and nothing else, but with reference to him: to rejoice in God; to delight in the Lord; not only to seek but find happiness in him: to enjoy God as the chiefest among ten thousand: to rest in him, as our God and our all. In a word, to have such a possession of God, as makes us always happy.

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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.

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

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