Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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Creed, understand it, according to the traditional
belief of their great Fathers, of an Eternal
Procession of the HOLY GHOST from the
FATHER through the Sox ; accordingly, as
containing a statement as to the mode of the
Eternal Being of GOD. If we were to drop the
"
Filioque," we should be in a different position
from those who have never had it. In parting
with the expression of the Faith we should pro
bably part with the Faith itself expressed by it ;
and men would come to understand the Scrip
ture term "proceedeth from the Father" of His
mission only since the day of Pentecost, and
would lose the faith in the mode of His eternal
existence altogether, probably of His existence
also as One Person in the Adorable Trinity.
The great difficulty
in regard to the Greek
Church does lie in that almost invincible pre
judice which Photius infused into the Greek
mind, that the Latin formula (C
Filioque"
involved the heresy that there were two "Ap^ai
in the Divine nature. We know how difficult,
or to man impossible to eradicate, are those
deep-rooted prejudices. Yet invincible pre
judices are vincible by GOD. They yield to
His grace. And an "
invincible prejudice,"
when overcome, opens the soul the more readily
to truth. The broken barrier becomes an open
ing and an access to the soul. The thought
that we have been misled as to the belief of
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