Let your light so shine before people
Notwithstanding all these plausible pretenses for hiding it, let your light so shine before people, that they may see your good works (Matthew 5:16) and glorify your Father who is in heaven. This is the practical application which our Lord himself makes of the foregoing considerations.
1771 text
IV. 1. Notwithstanding all these plausible pretences for hiding it, Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. This is the practical application which our Lord himself makes of the foregoing considerations.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 24 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:13-16.
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