Who required this
Where are your eyes? Where is your understanding? Have you deceived others until you have deceived yourselves also? Who has required this at your hands, to teach a way which you never knew (Isaiah 1:12)? Are you given up to so strong a delusion that you not only teach but believe a lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11)? And can you possibly believe that God has sent you? That you are his messengers? No; if the Lord had sent you, the work of the Lord would prosper in your hand. As the Lord lives, if you were messengers of God, he would confirm the word of his messengers. But the work of the Lord does not prosper in your hand: you bring no sinners to repentance. The Lord does not confirm your word: for you save no souls from death.
1771 text
12. Where are your eyes? Where is your understanding? Have ye deceived others, till you have deceived yourselves also? Who hath required this at your hands, to teach a way which ye never knew? Are you given up to so strong a delusion, that ye not only teach but believe a lie? And can you possibly believe, that God hath sent you? That ye are his messengers? Nay; if the Lord had sent you, the work of the Lord would prosper in your hand. As the Lord liveth, if ye were messengers of God, he would confirm the word of his messengers. But the work of the Lord doth not prosper in your hand: you bring no sinners to repentance. The Lord doth not confirm your word: for you save no souls from death.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 32 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:15-20.
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