"However, those things which the saints speak should be regarded as being spoken by God Himself. When, for example, we teach the Gospel, baptize, call men to the ministry of the Word, and ordain ministers, we ourselves do not preach, we do not baptize, we do not ordain, but God is speaking through us. So it is called God’s Word, God’s sacrament, God’s ministry, and it is rightly said: “God is speaking, God is baptizing” when He does it through ministers, since indeed all things are attributed to God which holy men have spoken."
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