Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §35 · John Wesley

Conformed to the world

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To resemble, to be conformed to the world is a third thing we are to understand by serving mammon: to have not only designs but desires, tempers, affections suitable to those of the world, to be of an earthly, sensual mind, chained down to the things of earth, to be self-willed, inordinate lovers of ourselves, to think highly of our own attainments, to desire and delight in the praise of men, to fear, shun, and abhor reproach, to be impatient of reproof, easy to be provoked, and swift to return evil for evil.

1771 text

10. To resemble, to be conformed to the world, is a third thing we are to understand by serving mammon: to have not only designs, but desires, tempers, affections suitable to those of the world: to be of an earthly, sensual mind, chained down to the things of earth: to be self-willed, inordinate lovers of ourselves: to think highly of our own attainments; to desire and delight in the praise of men: to fear, shun, and abhor reproach: to be impatient of reproof, easy to be provoked, and swift to return evil for evil.

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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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