Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse XIII · §5 · John Wesley

The wise man

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Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock. Matthew 7:24.

1771 text

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.

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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.

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.

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

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