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16 others. The priesthood of Christ is the source of all divine worship. All the faithful are conformed to Christ by the character impressed upon them in Baptism and Confirmation: and priests also in Ordination. But in Christ Himself there was no character, because He is the examplar and type of all characters; for Christ is the Character or Figure of the Father, and all divine perfection is in Him, of which the character in us is a partial conformity. The character we receive is impressed, not on the essence, but on the powers of the soul—that is, on the intellectual or the affective powers—and is either passive or