...you to read them in their pure and unadulterated state, each man in his own tongue.f And if King * " Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven, and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained." Ordaining of Priests. Of course, as God himself promises to forgive none but the Penitent, he has given...

...committed unto thee, by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost for1 See APPENDIX, Note C. give, 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, &c.'...

...service of the English Church for the ordination of priests, the Bishop says to the party ordained, " Receive the Holy Ghost : whose sins thou dost forgive,...and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained." If this be not a sort of legal fiction, a sham, a pretence, tremendous indeed is the power which these...

...together with a formula which has been reformed in the new Ritual ; for in the old one we read thus : Receive the Holy Ghost: whose sins thou dost forgive,...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...

...form, except that the words used 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," resulted in the adoption of a double form, to be used at the discretion of the officiating bishop :...

...ordains Priests, he says to them, " receive ye the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest — whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ;...and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained." Now I suppose the Priest actually exercises the authority thus committed to him by the Bishop. But...

...form, except that the words used 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," resulted in the adoption of a double form, to be used at the discretion of the officiating bishop :...

...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." If these words be true, if the Holy Ghost be conferred by the imposition of episcopal hands, then is...

...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.' " In the first exhortation, in the Communion Service, any person, whose conscience is disquieted, is,...

...a Priest [or Bishop] 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 this form she has maintained in every revisal of the Book of Common Prayer, notwithstanding the...