Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII · §4 · John Wesley

Your Father in secret

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So that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly. Matthew 6:18.

1771 text

That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

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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.

Reference

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

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