Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.167cause springing from it, founded and continued init.He Himself is the one Teacher whose voicethey express: He who came on earth for threeand thirty years speaks for evermore in thosewhom He sends as one Body, which calls no manteacher, because it is the Body of Christ, theTeacher : so that this function of magisterialteaching is the great distinctive office of HisChurch, coming: from above, 5 and invested withthe authority of the God-man, by which it drawsto it disciples, whose consent is not the groundbut the result of its authority. Fourthly, thereis the creation of the sacraments, as containingthe grace which is needed for the reception ofthis Truth, and they are summed up in the first,which is the beginning of the new life, illumination,and perfection, and which is given in thecovenant name of God, as the Christian God, andis the mark of the triune Creator, Redeemer, andSanctifier, impressed on his own people of acquisition.Thus Grace is for ever associated withTruth as the means whereby alone on earth Truth pshall prevail and be received, and that only as theteaching of that Body whose Head is full of Graceand Truth. Fifthly, there is marked the mannerof the teaching, the nature of the magisterial officecreated as that of a living O bodv J of men: "-teaching: othem to observe all things whatsoever I have commandedyou." The fund from which this teachingis drawn is that whole communication of truth