 | 1838 - 602 pages
...but rather that hè may turn from his wickedness, and live; and hath given power, and commandment, to his Ministers, to declare and pronounce to his...penitent, the Absolution and Remission of their sins: He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel. Wherefore... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pages
...sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live ; and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers, to declare and pronounce to his...penitent, the Absolution and Remission of their sins : He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel. Wherefore... | |
 | 1840 - 420 pages
...service ; ail( l it distinctly defines the power and c °fflraaiidment given to the minister to be ' to declare and pronounce to His people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins,' and assigns to God alone the prerogative of pardoning and absolving such. Here every thing is scriptural... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - 1838 - 416 pages
...thanksgivings, through the ministrations of that priesthood, whom God has appointed to feed His flock, and " to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins." It cannot be doubted, that He, who appointed a ministry, who promised to be with them even to the end... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1838 - 584 pages
...my sin 1 ." Nor will you wilfully disregard the voice of God's minister, " declaring and pronouncing to his people, being penitent, the Absolution and Remission of their sins;" when you consider it to be a seal of pardon applied by Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Clergy - 1839 - 164 pages
...wickedness and live; and, (secondly,) that in token of this desire, he hath given power and commandment to his ministers, to declare and pronounce to his...penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins." But what ? Are not the Scriptures open to all ? And do not they proclaim as clearly, and far more authoritatively... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 760 pages
...who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; and hath given power to his ministers to declare and pronounce...penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins : he pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy gospel. Wherefore... | |
 | J. W. Anderson, Richard Cull - Elocution - 1840 - 172 pages
...sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live: and hath given power, and commandment, to his ministers, to declare and pronounce to his...penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins: You must take care to observe as much evenness of voice as you can command, for without a scrupulous... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1840 - 306 pages
...distinctly defines the " power and commandment" which God has given to the ministers of his church. It is to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins. The prerogative of conferring what the minister thus declares, belongs to God alone. " HE pardoneth... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1840 - 300 pages
...Christ desireth not the death of a sinner,' &c. declares that God hath ' given power and commandment to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent,' that blessed sentence of the absolution and remission of their sins. The power will appear from 2 Cor.... | |
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God hath given power to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins, and that 
