The priest, the priest, the priest!
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The following is from Spurgeon's sermon,
"The Great Mystery of Godliness" No. 786.
According to their teaching (Roman Catholicism), God has committed to bishops and priests the fullness of his grace, which we meekly and reverently may receive at their venerable hands.
We are told that, in connection with a few drops of water, sprinkled by the successors of the apostles, children become regenerate. Through the laying on of the same blessed hands, we afterwards become confirmed in the faith, and assured of our salvation.
Through priestly power we are made partakers of the very body and blood of Christ, which, according to them, becomes literally present through their operation.
When we come to die, they can anoint us with oil, consecrated by their power, and by this unction all our sins are forgiven us.
The top and the bottom of the system is the priest, the priest, the priest.
A man like ourselves, and not a whit better, but ten thousand times worse for his infamous impudence in pretending to be what he is not, this man, dressed out in as many colors as the peacock, is the divinely appointed medium of grace.
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