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Priestcraft and Christian Freedom

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 39.

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Priestcraft and Christian Freedom

It is an interesting fact that of all the names given to officers or to presbyters in the early church, the New Testament never calls them priests. The name priests is applied to the members of the church, but not to its officers. See 1 Peter 2:9; Rev. 1:6. Canon Farrar says truly: "The claim of priestcraft robs Christians of the most estimable privileges of freedom, which Christ purchased for them with his own blood. It is bringing back [in the English Church] the deadliest virus of Romish error, and thrusting a class and a caste between the soul and its free, unimpeded access to God."