In Germany from the Leipsic Disputation to the Diet at Worms - James Aitken Wylie

doctrine of man's inability and God's free grace.
This it was that shook into ruin the Papal fabric of
human merit. By the same method of attack did
Luther demolish the Roman kingdom of bondage.
He penetrated the fiction on which itwas reared.
Rome takes a man, shaves his head, anoints him
with oil, gives him the Sacrament of orders, and so
infuses into him a mysterious virtue. The whole
class of men so dealt with form a sacerdotal order,
distinct from and higher than laymen, and are the
divinely appointed rulers of the world.
This falsehood, with the grievous and ancient
tyranny of which it was the corner-stone, Luther
overthrew by proclaiming the antagonistic truth.
All really Christian men, said he, are priests. Had
not the Apostle Peter, addressing all believers, said,
"Ye are a royal priesthood"? It is not the shearing
of the head, or the wearing of a peculiar garment,
that makes a man a priest. It is faith that makes
men priests, faith that unites them to Christ, and
that gives them the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,
whereby they become filled with all holy grace and
heavenly power. This inward anointing–this oil,
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