Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XIII · §32 · John Wesley

Pure in heart

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Now be pure in heart (Matthew 5:8); purified through faith from every unholy affection, cleansing yourself from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and perfecting holiness in the fear of God (2 Corinthians 7:1). Being through the power of his grace, purified from pride by deep poverty of spirit, from anger, from every unkind or turbulent passion, by meekness and mercifulness, from every desire but to please and enjoy God, by hunger and thirst after righteousness; now love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your strength.

1771 text

11. Now be thou pure in heart; purified thro’ faith from every unholy affection, cleansing thyself from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Being thro’ the power of his grace, purified from pride by deep poverty of spirit, from anger, from every unkind or turbulent passion, by meekness and mercifulness, from every desire but to please and enjoy God, by hunger and thirst after righteousness; now love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy strength.

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The last of the thirteen sermons on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 7:21-27: not everyone who says Lord, Lord, and the wise man who builds on the rock.

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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 33 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:21-27.

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