Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse X · §8 · John Wesley

Ask, seek, knock

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Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. Matthew 7:7.

1771 text

Ask and it shall be given you: seek and ye shall find: knock and it shall be opened unto you.

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The tenth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 7:1-12: judging others, holy things and pearls, asking, seeking and knocking, and the golden rule.

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 30 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:1-12.

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