Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §4

The fowls of the air

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Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? Matthew 6:26.

1771 text

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns: yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

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Catalogue & scope

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

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