 | James Ussher - Theology - 1625 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 754 pages
...give the ordination, which he doth in these words, ' Receive the Holy ' Ghost now committed unto thce by the im' position of our hands. Whose sins thon...forgiven ; and whose sins ' thou dost retain, they are retained.' Now, raethinks, a man must naturally infer from hence, that since this authority is... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | Gamaliel Smith Olds - Clergy - 1815 - 216 pages
...the bishop has laid his hands upon the priest, he »ays, " Receive the HOLY GHOST .. .whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven: and 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,... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1817 - 570 pages
...was shed " for the remission of sins." What are we then to understand by the words, " whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven, " and whose sins thou dost retain, they are re" tained?" They mean that the Minister shall, to the utmost of his power, instruct the people... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Catechetics - 1818 - 814 pages
...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." * A Reading-master? No : — a Speaknig-master? Yes. So say the Methodist, the Quaker,... | |
 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - Conversion - 1819 - 266 pages
...priest in the Church of God, now committed to 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 this Holy Sacrament. In the name of the Father,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1820 - 494 pages
...priest in the church of (rod, 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 re. tained." Form and manner of ordering priests.* These are samples of the service-book. We are... | |
 | William White - 1820 - 502 pages
...the bishop at the ordination of priests — " Receive ye the Holy Ghost" — and " Whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven, and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained." Bishop Seabury, who alone was tenacious of this form, consented at last, with great... | |
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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. 
