Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VIII · §24

The scales from their eyes

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O that God would speak to these miserable self-deceivers with his own voice, his mighty voice, that they may at last awake out of the snare of the devil (2 Timothy 2:26), and the scales may fall from their eyes (Acts 9:18).

1771 text

O that God would speak to these miserable self-deceivers, with his own voice, his mighty voice! That they may at last awake out of the snare of the devil, and the scales may fall from their eyes!

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Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.

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