Of the Ble fednefs of the Pure in Heart. 361 they take their rife to the turning of their S E It M. feet to Gods teftimonies, and keeping his XIII. commandments : We muff firf} bethink our- - -- "" J felves, and being fully fenfible of our errors, and of the folly, the turpitude, and unpro- fitablenefs of fin, come to a fixed refolution and purpofe of heart, that we will break it off by repentance, and the praáice of righ- teoufnefs ; all the preparatory exercifes of the mind, its good difpofitions and purpofes, may be comprehended in purity of heart:; but in the actual amendment of our ways, and the pracice of righteoufnefs they muff terminate, elfe they are abortive and wholly in vain. As repentance is, according to the gofpel, the efiential condition of our obtaining the favour of God, it is the current do ±rive of the facred writings that it is not compleated in the heart itfelf, but muff neceffarily end . in the reformation of the life, and in the pra ±ice of thofe virtues which are direly contrary to the fins we had before been guilty of. Thus fohn Baptifl, who frff declared the coming of God's kingdom, or the chriftian difpenfation, and taught re- pentance for the remiß'ion of fins, explain- eth it very clearly and particularly in the 3d chapter of St. Luke's gofpel, from the loth verfe
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