 | 1916 - 866 pages
...confessions, would not have been allowed to stand. The words to be said by the Priest or the Minister (' Let him come to me, or to some other discreet and learned Minister of God's Word ') imply that every parish priest is sufficiently ' discreet and learned ' to receive confessions from... | |
 | Walker Gwynne - 1917 - 464 pages
...[self examination] cannot quiet his own conscience therein but requireth further comfort or counsel, let him come to me, or to some other discreet and...conscience, and avoiding of all scruple and doubtfulness." Concerning this Mr. Blunt writes: "One of the most remarkable of the peculiar features of the Anglican... | |
 | Walker Gwynne - 1917 - 472 pages
...could choose as a spiritual guide." Life of Pusey, III, p. 96. The American Prayer Book alone omits "that by the ministry of God's holy Word he may receive the benefit of absolution," but in view of our Lord's solemn words, which are repeated over the Priest at his ordination, omission... | |
 | Walker Gwynne - 1917 - 458 pages
...could choose as a spiritual guide." Life of Pusey, III, p. 96. The American Prayer Book alone omits "that by the ministry of God's holy Word he may receive the benefit of absolution," but in view of our Lord's solemn words, which are repeated over the Priest at his ordination, omission... | |
 | Henry Melvill Gwatkin - 1917 - 434 pages
...confession in 1549 is now withdrawn. Compare the two forms — If a man has an unquiet conscience, then let him come to me, or to some other discreet and learned 1549 priest and confess and open his sin and grief secretly that he may receive . . . ghostly counsel... | |
 | Charles Fiske - 1919 - 346 pages
...of all scruple and doubtfulness"; or, as the English book puts it, he is to go to his parish priest, "or to some other discreet and learned Minister of...conscience and avoiding of all scruple and doubtfulness." In our Prayer Book, in the office of visitation of prisoners, the priest is directed to exhort the... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1919 - 966 pages
...rends as follows : ' Therefore, if there be any one who . . . requireth further comfort and counsel, let him come to me, or to some other discreet and...absolution together with ghostly counsel and advice, to the guiding of his conscience, and avoiding of all scruple and doubtfulness.' And after some other quotations,... | |
 | Joseph Gayle Hurd Barry, Selden Peabody Delany - 1919 - 316 pages
...con1 1 neglect the alternate form as being very rarely used, and of no different effect. science to " come to me, or to some other discreet and learned...holy Word he may receive the benefit of absolution," etc. In the English Office for the Visitation of the Sick it is directed that " the sick person shall... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1919 - 986 pages
...reads as follows : ' Therefore, if there be any one who . . . requireth further comfort and counsel, let him come to me, or to some other discreet and...learned minister of God's Word, and open his grief; that br the ministry of God's Holy Word he may receive the benefit of absolution together with ghostly counsel... | |
 | William Temple - 1925 - 512 pages
...who by this means cannot quiet his own conscience herein, but requireth further comfort or counsel, let him come to me, or to some other discreet and...ministry of God's Holy Word he may receive the benefit of absolution,1 together with ghostly counsel and advice, 1 The phrase " benefit of absolution " is worthy... | |
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God's mercy, and with a quiet conscience; therefore if there be any of you, who by this means cannot quiet his own conscience herein, but requireth further comfort or counsel, let him come to me, or to some other discreet and learned Minister of God's... 
