Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §65 · John Wesley

The Lamb slain

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Eternal, spotless Lamb of God, before the world's foundation slain (1 Peter 1:20), sprinkle us ever with your blood. O cleanse and keep us ever clean. To every soul, all praise to you, let our bowels of compassion move. And all mankind by this may see God is in us, for God is love (1 John 4:8).

1771 text

Eternal, spotless Lamb of God, Before the world’s foundation slain, Sprinkle us ever with thy blood, O cleanse and keep us ever clean. To every soul (all praise to thee) Our bowels of compassion move: And all mankind by this may see God is in us; for God is 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.

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

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