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

The foolish man

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And everyone that hears these sayings of mine and does not do them, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: Matthew 7:26.

1771 text

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

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Catalogue & scope

Sermon 33 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:21-27.

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