Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §31 · John Wesley

Trusting in riches

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Let us consider now what we are to understand, on the other hand, by serving mammon. And first, it implies the trusting in riches, in money or the things purchasable by it, as our strength, the means whereby we shall perform whatever cause we have in hand, the trusting in them as our help, by which we look to be comforted in or delivered out of trouble.

1771 text

8. Let us consider now, what we are to understand, on the other hand, by serving mammon. And first, it implies, the trusting in riches, in money, or the things purchasable thereby, as our strength, the means whereby we shall perform, whatever cause we have in hand: the trusting in them as our help, by which we look to be comforted in, or delivered out of trouble.

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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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