13 (A)Ye [a]are the salt of the [b]earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be [c]salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

14 Ye are the [d]light of the world. A city that is set on an hill, cannot be hid.

15 (B)Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:13 The ministers of the word, especially (unless they will be the most caitiff of all) must needs lead others both by word and deed to this greatest joy and felicity.
  2. Matthew 5:13 Your doctrine must be very sound and good, for if it be not so, it shall be naught set by, and cast away as a thing unsavory and vain.
  3. Matthew 5:13 What shall you have to salt withal? And so are fools in the Latin tongue called saltless, as you would say, men that have no salt, or savor and taste in them.
  4. Matthew 5:14 You shine and give light, by being made partakers of the true light.

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