Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII · §24 · John Wesley

Lord save, or I perish

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Yes, when the storm rose high, when a horrible dread overwhelmed one who had been without God in the world, his soul would loathe all manner of meat. It would be unpleasing and irksome to him. He would be impatient of anything that should interrupt his ceaseless cry, Lord save, or I perish.

1771 text

Yea, when the storm rose high, when an horrible dread overwhelmed one who had been without God in the world; his soul would loath all manner of meat; it would be unpleasing and irksom to him. He would be impatient of any thing that should interrupt his ceaseless cry, Lord save! or I perish.

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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.

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

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