A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Diocese of Salisbury, at His Triennial Visitation, in May, 1867

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Excerpt from A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Diocese of Salisbury, at His Triennial Visitation, in May, 1867And here I would apply this general Truth to this particular case. The Holy Ghost, Who spoke of Christians as Prophets, Priests, and Kings, did so to express definite, pre-ordained relations in which the Members of Christ were to stand to Him their god, and has provided that there should be a discharge of the functions which His words have thus attached to the condition of Christians, and so a fulfilment in the actual life of true Christians of the account which He has inspired men to give of them.