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Ministry, Word, and Sacraments: An Enchiridion is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a translation of Chemnitz’s ‘little book’ for pastors. It covers the Call to the Ministry, the Word and Sacraments, ceremonies of the church, and conduct of ministers. Includes Index and end notes.

ministry and the rest of the church excluded. For a pious magistrate is not the whole church, but only part of it. Ps 47:9. Nor is he the lord of the church, but nursing father (Is 49:23), in fact, its servant (Is 60:10). 25 But Do Anabaptists Do Right, Who Entrust the Whole Right of Calling to the Common Multitude (Which They Take the Word Ekklesia To Mean), with the Ministry and Pious Magistrate Excluded? By no means. For the church in each place is called, and is, the whole body embracing under
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