Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IV · §12

A social religion

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First, I shall try to show that Christianity is essentially a social religion, and that to turn it into a solitary religion is indeed to destroy it.

1771 text

I. 1. First. I shall endeavour to shew, that Christianity is essentially a social religion; and that to turn it into a solitary religion, is indeed to destroy it.

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Catalogue & scope

Sermon 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.

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