Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §23

Trusting him as our end

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It implies (what is nearly allied to the other) trusting in God as our end, to have an eye to him in all things, to use all things only as means of enjoying him. Wherever we are or whatever we do, to see him who is invisible looking on us well pleased, and refer all things to him in Christ Jesus.

1771 text

It implies (what is nearly allied to the other) to trust in God, as our end; to have an eye to him in all things; to use all things only as means of enjoying him: wheresoever we are, or whatsoever we do, to see him that is invisible, looking on us well-pleased, and refer all things to him in Christ Jesus.

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Catalogue & scope

Sermon 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.

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