Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VII · §55 · John Wesley

The day of atonement

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No more would abstinence, or the observing a continual fast, have excused any of the children of Israel from fasting the tenth day of the seventh month, the great annual day of atonement. There was no exception for these in that solemn decree: Whatever soul it shall be that shall not be afflicted (shall not fast) in that day, he shall be cut off from among his people (Leviticus 23:29).

1771 text

No more would abstinence, or the observing a continual fast, have excused any of the children of Israel, from fasting the tenth day of the seventh month, the great annual day of atonement. There was no exception for these in that solemn decree, Whatsoever soul it shall be, that shall not be afflicted (shall not fast) in that day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

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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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