CW Sermon VIII: Matthew 6:22-23
| Author | Charles Wesley |
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| Type | sermon |
| Year | 1742 |
| Passage ID | cw-sermon-viii-006 |
| Words | 210 |
| Source | https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Serm... |
made bare his mighty arm before you at his word the stormy wind arose and lifted up the waves thereof we reeled to and fro, and stag gered like drunken men, and were at our wits' end, when he made the storm to cease so that the waves thereof were still. He hath prepared a table for you in the way wherein you went ; even there, with corn and wine hath he sus tained you. Some of you he hath raised from sickness, to some he hath forbidden sickness to approach ; to all of you, who allowed spiritual blessings to be blessings, he hath afforded them. Yea in these he hath been found of them who asked them not ; he hath spoken to the hearts even of some who were unmindful of his mer cies ; and now " he hath brought you to the haven where ye would be." What reward then will ye give unto the Lord for all the benefits he hath done unto you ? Love him with all your hearts, serve him with all your strength, forget the things which aie behind pleasures, riches, honours in a word, whatever does not lead to God. Behold all things about you are become new,