Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII · §33 · John Wesley

The prayer of Daniel

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It was for this end, to avert the wrath of God, that Daniel sought God with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. This appears from the whole tenor of his prayer, particularly from the solemn conclusion of it. O Lord, according to all your righteousnesses (or mercies) let your anger be turned away from your holy mountain. Hear the prayer of your servant, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate. O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and do, for your own sake. Daniel 9:3, 16, etc.

1771 text

It was for this end, to avert the wrath of God, that Daniel sought God, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. This appears from the whole tenor of his prayer, particularly from the solemn conclusion of it. O Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses (or mercies) let thy anger be turned away from thy holy mountain――Hear the prayer of thy servant, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate.――O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive: O Lord, hearken and do, for thine own sake, Dan. ix. 3, 16, &c.

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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.

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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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