Men wiser than their Lord
And this is a still further motive and encouragement to the performance of this duty, even the promise which our Lord has graciously annexed to the due discharge of it: Your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly (Matthew 6:18). Such are the plain grounds, reasons, and ends of fasting, such our encouragement to persevere in it, notwithstanding abundance of objections which men wiser than their Lord have been continually raising against it.
1771 text
And this is a still farther motive and encouragement, to the performance of this duty; even the promise which our Lord has graciously annexed to the due discharge of it: Thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. Such are the plain grounds, reasons and ends of fasting; such our encouragement to persevere therein, notwithstanding abundance of objections which men, wiser than their Lord, have been continually raising against it.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 27 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:16-18.
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