 | Episcopal Church - 1835 - 406 pages
...desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live, hath given power and commandment to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, fte Absolution and Remission pf th.ejr sins. He pardoneth and absolvcth all those who truly repent,... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1836 - 62 pages
...desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live : and hath given power and. commandment to his ministers, to...penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins: He pardoneth aud absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignodly believe his holy Gospel. Wherefore,... | |
 | John BROWNE (Curate of Trinity Church, Cheltenham.) - 1836 - 520 pages
...will ratify and acknowledge. As :l Rom. viii. 33. 4 Ibid. 5 Isa. xliii. 25. our church says, ' He hath given power and commandment to his ministers to declare...penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins.' As such, my brethren, as his ministers, we address you ; we magnify our office. We think the peculiar... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...tppertaineth to forgive sins," and that he hath nerely " given power and commandment to his nraitters to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission oftheir HIS, and while Johnson defines the ecclesiastical wise of the word "absolve" to be " to pronounce... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live ; and hath given power and commandment to his ministers, to declare...penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins : He pardon eth and absolve th all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel.... | |
 | Author of Questions on Adam's Roman antiquities - 1837 - 110 pages
...desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness, and live ; and hath given power, and commandment to his Ministers, to...penitent, the Absolution and Remission of their sins; He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel. Wherefore... | |
 | Edward Osler - 1837 - 200 pages
...them : their office ; to govern as Christ's ministers and representatives, having power and authority to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins ; and also to inflict upon offenders the censure of the Church, even to the extent of exclusion from... | |
 | rev. w. thistlethwaite - 1837 - 964 pages
...all infidel and impious rejecters of Christ, so long as they continue impenitent; and on the contrary to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins. It belongs to them also, as the accredited servants of God, to bless, in his name, all his faithful... | |
 | Daniel Parsons - 1838 - 412 pages
...disquieted if they cannot then obtain it. Of Absolution the Church declares that ALMIGHTY GOD " hath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare...penitent, the Absolution and Remission of their sins'," and, in the office for the Visitation of the Sick, puts into the mouth of the Priest this form of Absolution,... | |
 | 1838 - 1104 pages
...minister, " in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; " for that God indeed "bath given power and commandment to his Ministers, to declare...penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins; but that He himself, and tie unlv, pardonetli and absolveth all those that truly repent and unftignedly... | |
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Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desireth not the death of a 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 people, being... 
