Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VIII · §46

That cruel something

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Amidst our plenty something still, to me, to you, to him is wanting. That cruel something unpossessed corrodes and leavens all the rest.

1771 text

“Amidst our plenty something still―― To me, to thee, to him is wanting! That cruel something unpossest Corrodes and leavens all the rest.”

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Catalogue & scope

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

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