Therefore it belongs not to the priestly office to catechize and exorcize. Therefore it does not belong to the priestly office. Now the secondary agent does nothing without the principal agent in operating. And the more mighty the operation, so much the mightier instruments does the principal agent require. But the operation of the priest in conferring the sacrament itself is mightier than in those things that are preparatory to the sacrament.
Instruction is manifold.
This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on August 12, 2000.