Him only shall you serve
Therefore you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve (Matthew 4:10). You shall lay aside all thoughts of obeying two masters, of serving God and mammon. You shall propose to yourself no end, no help, no happiness but God. You shall seek nothing in earth or heaven but him. You shall aim at nothing but to know, to love, and enjoy him. And because this is all your business below, the only view you can reasonably have, the one design you are to pursue in all things, therefore I say to you (as our Lord continues his discourse): Take no anxious thought for your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body, what you shall put on (Matthew 6:25). A deep and weighty direction, which it imports us well to consider and thoroughly to understand.
1771 text
15. Therefore thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve. Thou shalt lay aside all thoughts of obeying two masters, of serving God and mammon. Thou shalt propose to thyself no end, no help, no happiness, but God. Thou shalt seek nothing in earth or heaven but him: thou shalt aim at nothing, but to know, to love and enjoy him. And because this is all your business below, the only view you can reasonably have, the one design you are to pursue in all things; therefore I say unto you (as our Lord continues his discourse) take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. A deep and weighty direction, which it imports us well to consider and throughly to understand.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.
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