Carrying on our business
Lastly, we are not forbidden in these words to lay up from time to time what is needful for the carrying on our worldly business, in such a measure and degree as is sufficient to answer the foregoing purposes: in such a measure as first to owe no man anything, secondly to procure for ourselves the necessaries of life, and thirdly to furnish those of our own house with them while we live, and with the means of procuring them when we are gone to God.
1771 text
Lastly, We are not forbidden in these words, to lay up from time to time, what is needful for the carrying on our worldly business, in such a measure and degree, as is sufficient to answer the foregoing purposes: in such a measure, as first, to owe no man any thing; secondly, to procure for ourselves the necessaries of life; and thirdly, to furnish those of our own house with them while we live, and with the means of procuring them when we are gone to God.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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