Ministers remit sins.
Ministers, therefore, rightly and effectually absolve when they preach the Gospel of Christ and thereby the remission of sins, which is promised to each one who believes, just as each one is baptized, and when they testify that it pertains to each one particularly . Therefore, ministers are to be regarded, not as ministers by themselves alone, but as the ministers of God, inasmuch as God effects the salvation of men through them. Hence we warn men to beware lest we attribute what has to do with our conversion and instruction to the secret power of the Holy Spirit in such a way that we make void the ecclesiastical ministry . Therefore, the priesthood and the ministry are very different from one another. Nor have we abolished the ministry of the Church because we have repudiated the papal priesthood from the Church of Christ .