Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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plained, so that it could be received by An
glo-Catholics, and that our Articles contain
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nothing which is, in its grammatical sense,
adverse to the Council of Trent, remains un
touched and unrepudiated. And this is the
intellectual basis of a future union, when GOD
shall have disposed men s hearts on both sides
to look the difficulties in the face, and the
presence of the common foe, unbelief, shall
have driven them together. Since Bossuet
found no difficulty in accepting an exposition
of the Augsburg Confession, much less need
there be any as to the Thirty-nine Articles,
which are free from the special difficulties of
Lutheranism. And when that explanation shall
have been offered and accepted, the office of
the Anglican Articles, in maintaining clear doc
trinal truth on the one side, and in explaining
our insulated position on the other, will have
ceased. The structure of some of them shows
manifestly that they were intended to be tem
porary.* This ad-interim office over, they
would obviously cease to be.
The conception of the possibility of Re-union
is more than half-way to Re-union. It is a
TTOV (7TO). Hope inspires courage, bounds over
barriers, wings prayer. The idea that Re
union is possible, appeals to the deepest feelings
* Art. xxxv. xxxvi. Art. xxxviii. also alludes to a pass
ing fanaticism.