The Circumcision of the Heart · §1

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This is a listening version of John Wesley's sermon, The Circumcision of the Heart. He preached it at Saint Mary's, Oxford, before the University, on 1 January 1733. Rendered in modern English.

Circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter. Romans 2:29.

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Rendered in modern English, to be read and heard. Open the 1771 text under each part to check the claims and the scripture.

Rendered in modern English. The 1771 panel is his own Pine printing of the Works. It is public domain.

Catalogue & scope

Sermon 17 in the 1771 Works. Romans 2:29. Saint Mary's, Oxford, 1 January 1733.

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