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 narrow gate; and those who hunger for justice are not satisfied to say 'Lord, Lord!' with their lips, but feed their hearts on God’s Truth, and so build their house firmly on a rock.

The Beatitudes, then, form an abridgment of the whole sermon; but a pleasant abridgment, for in them the command and the reward are always joined. The Kingdom of Heaven, under its divers wonderful names, follows on the possession of righteousness — happiness, on the practice of it.