Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

xxxii Introductory Essay.
Whether then we look at it, as the voice of
more awakened conscience, or deeper love, or
loyalty to our LORD S commands (if not con
trary to our other fealty to Him), or sense of
the requisitions
of our faith, or the expansion
or realisation of our belief, or all these severally
in different persons, or unitedly in the same, it
is a Divine impulse from Him Who ever has in
His hands human consciences and hearts and
convictions, the Author of our Faith, from
Whose holy Inspiration alone
"
all holy desires,
all good counsels, and all just works do pro
Whose Alone is
ceed," "
that most excellent
gift
of charity, the very bond of peace, and of all
virtues."
This has been attested alike by that mingled
fascination and awe with which the thought
has been received. People have gazed at it,
wondered at it, looked at it as a beautiful
dream ; yet while they thought it a dream they
owned it beautiful. Few ventured to speak
against it. For the greatness
of the truth awed
them. They said it was "impossible." True !
And
humanly speaking,
"
it is
impossible."
therefore, according to that deep saying,
"
I
believe, because it is impossible ;
"
-for had not
revealed truth been beyond the power and
thought and capacity of man,
it had not been
supernatural and Divine so we may say, "I
hope, because it is impossible." For the thought