The Secret of Clerical Power

Excerpt from The Secret of Clerical Power: A Sermon, Preached in Salisbury Cathedral, at the General Ordination of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, on the 15th Sunday After Trinity, 1865

What, then, was this power thus promised to the Apostles? Power is a comprehensive term, and the specific form of power which was mainly intended can only be determined by reference to the actual history of the earliest Church of Christ.

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