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"It is worth noting that Protestantism suppresses the clergy, and though it claims to uphold the authority of the Bible, it in fact ruins it by free inquiry."
"He commanded that something should be given her to eat." Has any bodys daughter or any bodys son been raised from spiritual death in your congregation, or in your class recently? If so, give the revived soul something to eat."

Clergy are leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the terms used for individual clergy are clergyman, clergywoman, clergyperson, churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic, and vicegerent while clerk in holy orders has a long histo
"It is worth noting that Protestantism suppresses the clergy, and though it claims to uphold the authority of the Bible, it in fact ruins it by free inquiry."
"Minister doth not always import an inferior to him to whom he doth minister: for the Psalm saith, God hath made man paulo inferiorem Angelis; and yet in the first chapter to the Hebrews it is said, that the Angels are ministering spirits, sent forth for the good of Gods saints."
"As the French say, there are three sexes – men, women, and clergymen."
"[The priesthood] truly plays the role of mediator between heaven and earth, and it is not without reason that in the Western traditions the priesthood in all its plenitude received the symbolic name of pontificate, for, as Saint Bernard says, the Pontiff, as indicated by the etymology of his name, is a kind of bridge [pont] between God and man. If one then wished to go back to the primal origin of the priestly and royal powers, one must look to the celestial world."
"Though all good men be called Gods servants in their general vocation, yet they cannot be called the minister of God but to a more special use."
"A man who is good enough to go to heaven, is good enough to be a clergyman."