Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

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Exigency of Truth.
is only not now gratified at the call of a higher
duty. And this is the case with any other
religious practical conviction. There may be a
thousand hindrances to its realization. But if
there be no stifling of conscience, no cowardice,
no voluntary lowering of one s own convictions
in regard to it, no religious fault will have been
committed ; and though we may not ourselves
attain to what we should wish, our labours will
not be thrown away, and our successors will gain
what we have not been counted worthy to see
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with our own eves.
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It is not denied that there are certain truths
so all important, and so absolute, that any
hesitation to act on them when once received
can only end in their being withdrawn. Such
are the Being and Nature of GOD, and the
duty thence arising of worshipping Him both
in Public and Private. The doctrine of the
Trinity too when once received must lead to
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a very distinct and open opposition to Socinian-
ism. And the Church has given prominence
to these master truths by embodying them in
v f O
Creeds. No one, so far as I am aware, would
doubt that there must be an explicit avowal of
belief in these Articles on the part of every one
who professes to belong to CHRIST S Church ;
and that a denial of any one of them con
stitutes a man pro tanto a heretic. But there
are many classes of opinions which a man may