On Hope — the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes.
On the Seventh Beatitude.
Chapter 19
1471. What is the Lord's seventh precept for blessedness?
2They who would be blessed must be peace-makers.
3472. How are we to fulfill this commandment?
4We must live friendly with all men, and give no occasion for disagreement: if any arise, we must try all possible ways to put a stop to it, even by yielding our own right, unless this be against duty, or hurtful to any other: if others are at enmity, we must do all we can to reconcile them; and if we fail, we must pray to God for their reconciliation.
5473. What does the Lord promise to peace-makers?
6That they shall be called the Sons of God.
7474. What is signified by this promise?
8The sublimity both of their office and of their reward. Since in what they do they imitate the only-begotten Son of God, who came upon earth to reconcile fallen man with God's justice, they are for this promised the gracious name of Sons of God, and without doubt a degree of blessedness answering thereto.