Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §7 · John Wesley

Vain repetitions

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But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the Heathen do. For they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 6:7.

1771 text

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the Heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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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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