Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §28

In spirit and in truth

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We here speak of imitating or resembling him in the spirit of our minds. For here the true Christian imitation of God begins. God is a Spirit, and those who imitate or resemble him must do it in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).

1771 text

We here speak, of imitating or resembling him in the spirit of our minds. For here the true Christian imitation of God begins. God is a Spirit; and they that imitate or resemble him, must do it in spirit and in truth.

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Sermon 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.

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