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Article V: Of the Ministry.
That we may obtain this faith, the
Ministry of
Teaching the
Gospel and administering the
Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments, the
Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in them that hear the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits, but for
Christ's sake, justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ's sake.
They
condemn the
Anabaptists and others who think that the
Holy Ghost comes to men without the external Word, through their own
preparations and
works.