Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §37 · John Wesley

Your will be done

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Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is the necessary and immediate consequence wherever the kingdom of God has come, wherever God dwells in the soul by faith and Christ reigns in the heart by love.

1771 text

9. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is the necessary and immediate consequence, wherever the kingdom of God is come: wherever God dwells in the soul by faith, and Christ reigns in the heart by love.

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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.

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

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