Mormonism: Its Origin and Doctrines 141 priesthood. There was one man by that name, both a king and a priest, without predecessor or successor, and so chosen as a type of the priesthood of the Son of God. The Aaronic priest hood descended from father to son, in a marvelous way, for forty-five generations, until all priesthood was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Since the one perfect sacrifice of Himself made by our great High Priest, Jesus Christ, any person who pretends to be a priest and claims the right to stand between us and God, is what our Saviour calls “a thief and a robber”. What a bogus priesthood this pretended Mormon priesthood is! It has no more right to administer the Christian ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, than any other group of unprincipled men who repudiate Jesus Christ as the Divine Head of the Church, and go through the blasphemous farce of electing themselves members of “the holy priesthood”. And yet Mormons tremble at the dictates of this bogus priesthood, and fear to exercise the freedom of opinion which is their right. The 7th, 8 th, 9th, and 10th Chapters of Hebrews give us Divine instruction as to the fact that all priesthood was forever fulfilled, and came to an end in Jesus Christ. 4. Mormonism imposes upon the people a counterfeit group of apostles. It requires four things to make a true apostle: First, He must have been acquainted with Jesus Christ before His crucifixion. Second, He must have seen Christ after His resurrection from the dead. Third, He must have received his commission as an apostle directly from Christ, as Divine Head of the Church. Fourth, Pie must be able to work miracles to show that God sent him. So that any group of men now who say they are apostles, are simply willful deceivers, and the truth is not in them. T H E DOCTR INES O F TH E MORMON SYSTEM All that has been said under the preceding division about
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