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Observe, 1. The character of the persons whom Christ pronounces blessed; such as hunger and thirst after righteousness.
2. Wherein their blessedness doth consist: They shall be filled.
By righteousness we are to understand, 1. A righteousness of justification; the righteousness of the Mediator imputed to us, by which we stand righteous in God's sight, being freed from condemnation.
2. A righteousness of sanctification, wrought in us by the Holy Spirit, enabling us to act righteously.
By the former, there is a relative change in our condition; by the latter, a real change in our constitution.
1. Learn, That all and only such as do spiritually hunger and thirst after Christ and his righteousness, are in a happy and blessed condition.
2. That to hunger and thirst after holiness is to apprehend the worth of it, to be sensible of the want of it, to be desirous of it, and restless in endeavours after it, as men usually do that are pinched with hunger. Dr. Hammond's Prac. Catech.