Retirement must not swallow our time
Yet such retirement must not swallow up all our time. This would be to destroy, not advance, true religion. For that the religion described by our Lord in the foregoing words cannot exist without society, without our living and talking with other people, is plain from this, that several of its most essential branches can have no place if we have no intercourse with the world.
1771 text
2. Yet such retirement must not swallow up all our time; this would be to destroy, not advance true religion. For, that the religion described by our Lord in the foregoing words, cannot subsist without society, without our living and conversing with other men, is manifest from hence, that several of the most essential branches thereof, can have no place, if we have no intercourse with the world.
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Sermon 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.
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