The Principal Foundation

Godly John Owen declared, long ago, that if there was any one point more than another that Satan wished to overthrow, it was the Priestly office of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. “Satan knew well,” he said, that it was the “principal foundation of faith and consolation of the Church.” Right views about Christ’s office are of essential importance in the present day if men would not fall into error.

—J.C. Ryle (10 May 1816 – 10 June 1900, English evangelical Anglican bishop).