Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §2 · John Wesley

Take heed

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Take heed that you do not do your alms before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 6:1.

1771 text

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

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The sixth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:1-15: giving and praying in secret, the Lord's Prayer, and a pure intention in all we do.

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.

Reference

Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.

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