Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII · §20 · John Wesley

Grounds, reasons, and ends

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I proceed to show, in the second place, what are the grounds, the reasons, and ends of fasting.

1771 text

II. 1. I proceed, to shew, in the second place, what are the grounds, the reasons and ends of fasting.

About this text

The seventh sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:16-18: fasting, what it is for, how it is abused, and how to keep it.

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 27 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:16-18.

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