TheSermons of John Wesley by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

If you desire to be a ‘faithful and a wise steward’, out of that portion of your Lord’s goods which he has for the present lodged in your hands, but with the right of resumption whenever it pleaseth him, (1), provide things needful for yourself—food to eat, raiment to put on, whatever nature moderately requires for preserving you both in health and strength; (2), provide these for your wife, your children, your servants, or any others who pertain to your household. If when this is done there is an overplus left, then do good to ‘them that are of the household of faith’. If there be an overplus still, ‘as you have opportunity, do good unto all men’. In so doing, you give all you can; nay, in a sound sense, all you have. For all that is laid out in this manner is really given to God. You render unto God the things that are God’s, not only by what you give to the poor, but also by that which you expend in providing things needful for yourself and your household. (Works [1771], Vol. 4, p. 56 [cf. Sermon 50, ‘The Use of Money,’ III.3])

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