← §38 Read continuously §40 → Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VIII · §39 · John Wesley
Pictures to sore eyes
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As painted pictures are to bleary eyes, poultices to the gout, or music to ears aching with gathered filth, so are riches to the sick and sorrowing man.
1771 text Ut lippum pictæ tabulæ, fomenta podagrum, Auriculas citharæ collecta forde dolentes.
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About this text John Wesley lived from 1703 to 1791. This sermon is in his 1771 Works. The printing does not give a preach date.
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.
Edition Printed 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 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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