 | James Ussher - Theology - 1625 - 642 pages
...very formal words, which our Church requireth to be used in the ordination of a minister, are these : "Whose" sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven...and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained." And therefore, if this be all the matter, the fathers and we shall agree well enough : howsoever this... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands: whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven: and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained : And be thou a faithful Dispenser of the word of God, and of his holy Sacraments: In the name of the... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 446 pages
...and work of a Priest in the church of God, now committed unto thee, by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven, and...whose sins thou • dost retain, they are retained. And be thou a faithful dispenser of the word of God, and of his holy sacraments, in the name of the... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 754 pages
...Receive the Holy ' Ghost now committed unto thce by the im' position of our hands. Whose sins thon dost ' forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins ' thou dost retain, they are retained.' Now, raethinks, a man must naturally infer from hence, that since this authority is derived from our... | |
 | Gamaliel Smith Olds - Clergy - 1815 - 216 pages
...retain, they are retained."^ When the bishop has laid his hands upon the priest, he »ays, " Receive the HOLY GHOST .. .whose sins thou dost forgive, they...whose sins thou .dost retain, they are retained." But how does it apj>ear, because CHRIST had power to impart the HOLY GHOST to his Apostles, and qualify... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 746 pages
...Receive the Holy ' Ghost now committed unto thee by the im' position of our hands. Whose sins thon dost • forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins ' thou dost retain, they arc retained.' Now, roetbinks, a man must naturally infer from hence, that since this authority is... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1817 - 570 pages
...appoints them to their office. The same observation may be applied to the other part of the form. " Whose sins thou dost forgive " they are forgiven : and whose sins thou dost re" tain they are retained." When these words were gpokeu by our Lord to his Apostles, they had been... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Catechetics - 1818 - 814 pages
...of a Priest in the " Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our " hands." — " Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ;...whose " sins thou dost retain, they are retained." * A Reading-master? No : — a Speaknig-master? Yes. So say the Methodist, the Quaker, yea, and the... | |
 | REV. H. C. O'DONNOGHUE, A.M. - 1818 - 342 pages
...in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou jdost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained." The Church uses here nearly the same words which Christ employed in the text; when, after having said... | |
 | 1818 - 424 pages
...and work of a Priest in the .'hurdi of God, now committed unto thee >y tke imposition of our hands: whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven: and whose sins thou dust retain, they are retained: And be thou a faithful Dispenser of the word of God, and of his holy... | |
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Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained. 
