Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §7

Vain repetitions

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But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the Heathen do. For they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 6:7.

1771 text

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the Heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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Catalogue & scope

Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.

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