Of the vnworthynesse of the ministers, which hinder not the effect of the Sacramentes

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1. Although in the visible Churche the euyl be euer myngled with the good, & sometime the euyll haue cheefe aucthoritie in the ministration of the worde & Sacramentes: yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their owne name but in Christes, and do minister by his commission and aucthoritie, we may vse their ministerie, both in hearing the word of God, & in the receauing of the Sacramentes. Neither is ye effecte of Christes ordinaunce taken away by their wickednesse, nor the grace of Gods gyftes diminished from such as by fayth & ryghtly do receaue the Sacramentes ministred vnto them, which be effectuall, because of Christes institution and promise, although they be ministred by euyll men.

Commentary

Gilbert Burnet, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1699), on 26.1, 26.2
Thomas Rogers, The Faith, Doctrine, and Religion, Professed, and Protected in the Realm of England, Expressed in Thirty-Nine Articles (1607), on 26.1, 26.2

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