Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VIII · §21

Your eye is evil

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Therefore lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. If you do, it is plain your eye is evil. It is not singly fixed on God. Matthew 6:19.

1771 text

9. Therefore lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. If you do, it is plain your eye is evil: it is not singly fixed on God.

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

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