Adhering to the Truth

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Ralph Erkine (Sermons [London, 1821], 6:134-135):

There are two things we are to adhere to, and persevere in, which yet the most part of people think needless; and these are, 1 .The present truth; and, 2. The least truth.

(1.) The present truth is what we are always to adhere to, and persevere in, 2 Pet. 1:12. There the apostle speaks of being established in the present truth. If a man do not adhere to the truth, that is at present in controversy in his day, he will adhere to no truth at all. The best evidence of integrity is freedom from the present corruptions of the times and place we live in; and adherence to the present opposed truth, so as to swim against the stream when it is strong. Some think, what need we trouble our heads with a truth that is controverted among great and learned men? Really, Sirs, there is hardly one fundamental truth in religion, but what has been controverted by the devil and his instruments; and if we will not cleave to opposed and controverted truth, we must renounce the truth altogether. Nay, the more that Christ and his truths are opposed, the more should we stand firm for him and it.

(2.) The least truth is what we are to adhere to, and persevere in, if we would be stable in the faith; he that is content to part with a hoove, is content to part with the whole of religion: as the true obeyer has a respect to all God’s commandments; so the true believer has a respect to all his truths. The least truth of God is a beam from the infinite Truth; and the man that will not adhere to the least truth of Christ, will adhere to no truth in the day of trial for the truth.
 
Amen.

Galatians 5:9
9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Matthew 13:12
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
 
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