Needful for the body
Neither, secondly, does he here forbid the providing for ourselves such things as are needful for the body: a sufficiency of plain, wholesome food to eat, and clean clothing to put on. Yes, it is our duty, so far as God puts it into our power, to provide these things also, to the end we may eat our own bread and be burdensome to no man (2 Thessalonians 3:8).
1771 text
Neither, secondly, does he here forbid the providing for ourselves, such things as are needful for the body: a sufficiency of plain, wholesome food to eat, and clean raiment to put on. Yea, it is our duty, so far as God puts it into our power, to provide these things also; to the end we may eat our own bread, and be burdensome to no man.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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