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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: distinction between them, except that those who are now
boastfully called popes, bishops, and lords, it calls ministers,
servants, and stewards, who are to serve the rest in the ministry
of the word, for teaching the faith of Christ and the liberty of
believers. For though it is true that we are all equally priests,
yet we cannot, nor, if we could, ought we all to, minister and
teach publicly. Thus Paul says, "Let a man so account of us as of
the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God" (1
Cor. iv. 1).
This bad system has now issued in such a pompous display of power
and such a terrible tyranny that no earthly government can be
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