444 4D3caf,eSalt o`'SN6i, SERMON XXVIII. O The Order of this Beatitude. . M A T H. S. 9. Bleed are the peace - makers, for they frail be called the children of God. E £nifhed you may remember the lai+ day the fixth Beatitude ; The promife to the pure in heart, That they (hall fee Clod. We come to this feventh Beatitude ; Bleffed are the peace -makers, for they fenil be called the children of Clod. This Bleffednelfe for the order, it is in the feventh place : s we read in the 6 Pro: the contrary unto this, that God faith he hares : it is the feventh thing which is there revealed as an object of Gods hatred, v. 16, Thefe fix things Both the Lord hate, yea feven are an abomination unto him. Then the holy Gho& having named the fix, the feventh thing that is na- med, it is him that foweth Difcord among Brethre.R : That's the feventh thing that God hates : And here the feventh thing that God promifes bleífedneffe unto,is, the peace makers ; Bleffed .ere the peace - makers, for they (hall be called the children of God. And it well followes the former ; Bleffed are the pure in heart; and then Blefed are the peace - makers; for it is from the Impuri- ty of mens fpirits, that there is fo much difcord in the world ; there would be more peace, if there were more holinetfe Follow
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