The sum of the prophets
This is the law and the prophets. Whatever is written in that law which God of old revealed to mankind, and whatever precepts God has given by his holy prophets, which have been since the world began (Luke 1:70), they are all summed up in these few words, they are all contained in this short direction. And this rightly understood comprises the whole of that religion which our Lord came to establish upon earth.
1771 text
23. This is the law and the prophets. Whatsoever is written in that law which God of old revealed to mankind; and whatsoever precepts God has given by his holy prophets, which have been since the world began, they are all summed up in these few words, they are all contained in this short direction. And this rightly understood comprizes the whole of that religion, which our Lord came to establish upon earth.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 30 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:1-12.
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