1 SERMON XIII. Of the BLESSEDNESS of the pure in Heart. MATT. V. 8. Bleffed are the pure in heart, fir they fhall fee God. S E R M. AS man is a rational and moral agent, XIII. his felicity muff principally depend on moral qualities, efpecially becaufe they are not only the higheft perfeélion of his na- ture, and the bell improvement of its po- wers, but they bring him neareft to God the fountain of all excellence and bleffed- nefs, are the moll exaa refemblance of his original glorious perfections which the crea- tures are capable of, and the molt imme- diate preparation for his favour; in other words ; there is a neceffàry connection be- tween virtue and happinefs ; a virtuous and religious temper of mind and tenor of life is, as St. Peter calleth it, a participation of a divine nature, the likenefs of the divine moral
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