Excerpt from The Church: Its Ministry and AuthorityThe Preaching of S. John the Baptist - AS S. John the Baptist was the herald and forerunner of the teaching and work of our Lord generally, so also was he of the Church in particular. It was part of his o¿ice to fore tell and proclaim the coming of the Saviour who as the Lamb of God should redeem mankind (luke iii. 6, John i. It was another part of it to preach and to administer that baptism of repentance which supplied the final stage in the preparation for the institution of the Christian Sacrament of Baptism (matt. Iii. 6, 11.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.