Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VIII · §27 · John Wesley

Needful for the body

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Neither, secondly, does he here forbid the providing for ourselves such things as are needful for the body: a sufficiency of plain, wholesome food to eat, and clean clothing to put on. Yes, it is our duty, so far as God puts it into our power, to provide these things also, to the end we may eat our own bread and be burdensome to no man (2 Thessalonians 3:8).

1771 text

Neither, secondly, does he here forbid the providing for ourselves, such things as are needful for the body: a sufficiency of plain, wholesome food to eat, and clean raiment to put on. Yea, it is our duty, so far as God puts it into our power, to provide these things also; to the end we may eat our own bread, and be burdensome to no man.

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The eighth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:19-23: treasures on earth and in heaven, and the single eye of a pure intention.

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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 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.

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