Outside religion
It is also true that bare outside religion, which has no root in the heart, is nothing worth, that God does not delight in such outward services, no more than in Jewish burnt offerings, and that a pure and holy heart is a sacrifice with which he is always well pleased. But he is also well pleased with all that outward service which arises from the heart, with the sacrifice of our prayers, whether public or private, of our praises and thanksgivings, with the sacrifice of our goods, humbly devoted to him and employed wholly to his glory, and with that of our bodies, which he particularly claims, which the apostle begs us, by the mercies of God, to present to him, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God (Romans 12:1).
1771 text
It is also true, that bare outside religion, which has no root in the heart, is nothing worth; that God delighteth not in such outward services, no more than in Jewish burnt-offerings, and that a pure and holy heart is a sacrifice, with which he is always well pleased. But he is also well pleased with all that outward service, which arises from the heart: with the sacrifice of our prayers, (whether public or private) of our praises and thanksgivings: with the sacrifice of our goods, humbly devoted to him, and employed wholly to his glory: and with that of our bodies, which he peculiarly claims; which the apostle beseeches us, by the mercies of God, to present unto him, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.
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