Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §6 · John Wesley

The lilies of the field

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And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin. Matthew 6:28.

1771 text

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lillies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

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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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