Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse V · §42 · John Wesley

I give tithes of all I possess

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I give tithes of all that I possess (Luke 18:12). This the Pharisees did with the utmost exactness. They would not leave out the most insignificant thing, no, not mint, anise, and cumin (Matthew 23:23). They would not keep back the least part of what they believed properly belonged to God, but gave a full tenth of their whole substance yearly, and of all their increase, whatever it was.

1771 text

5. I give tithes of all that I possess. This the Pharisees did with the utmost exactness. They would not except the most inconsiderable thing, no, not mint, anise and cummin. They would not keep back the least part of what they believed properly to belong to God; but gave a full tenth of their whole substance yearly, and of all their increase, whatsoever it was.

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The fifth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 5:17-20: Christ came to fulfill the law, not to destroy it, and the righteousness that exceeds the Pharisees'.

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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 25 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:17-20.

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