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 contained in the twelve Articles of the Creed, and that we are determined to live according to this belief, and to die in it.

Application. Often consider, especially at the hour of temptation, this serious truth: 'Once lost, lost for ever'; or this one: 'Momentary joy brings on eternal pain, but short pain eternal joy'; and these words of Jesus Christ: ' The kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away' (Matt. xi. 12).