Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII · §31 · John Wesley

No natural connection

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Not that there is any natural or necessary connection between fasting and the blessings God conveys by it. But he will have mercy as he will have mercy. He will convey whatever seems good to him by whatever means he is pleased to appoint. And he has in all ages appointed this to be a means of averting his wrath and obtaining whatever blessings we from time to time stand in need of.

1771 text

7. Not that there is any natural or necessary connexion, between fasting, and the blessings God conveys thereby. But he will have mercy as he will have mercy: he will convey whatsoever seemeth him good, by whatsoever means he is pleased to appoint. And he hath in all ages appointed this, to be a means of averting his wrath, and obtaining whatever blessings we from time to time stand in need of.

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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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