Flesh and blood
Our Lord was well aware also of this plausible reasoning of flesh and blood. And he has given a full answer to it in those words which come now to be considered. In explaining them I shall try to show, as I proposed to do in the second place, that so long as true religion abides in our hearts, it is impossible to conceal it, as well as absolutely contrary to the design of its great Author.
1771 text
2. Of this plausible reasoning of flesh and blood, our Lord was well aware also. And he has given a full answer to it in those words, which come now to be considered: in explaining which I shall endeavour to shew, as I proposed to do in the second place, that so long as true religion abides in our hearts, it is impossible to conceal it, as well as absolutely contrary to the design of its great Author.
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Sermon 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.
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