Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse V · §55 · John Wesley

Do not fall short of them

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Whoever therefore you are who bear the holy and venerable name of a Christian, see first that your righteousness does not fall short of the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. Do not be as other men are. Dare to stand alone, to be

1771 text

12. Whosoever therefore thou art, who bearest the holy and venerable name of a Christian, see, first that thy righteousness fall not short of the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees. Be not thou as other men are. Dare to stand alone, to be

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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'.

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

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