 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1836 - 116 pages
...question ; When one is set apart for the ministry, and the bishop pronounces over him the words, " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest...committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands," do you think that he receives no spiritual benefit ? or that no spiritual benefit is thereby implied... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...hear, from his brethren, the awful words, " Receive the Holy Ghost, for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee, by the imposition of our hands ; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Let us implore the Lord of all... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...for the ordination of priests, where the bishop says to each candidate : " Receive the Holy Gliost for the office and work of a priest in the church of God, now committed onto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...be more natural and obvious ; especially as following so closely upon the language which points to the office and work of a priest, " in the church of God" it seems to refer to ecclesiastical offences. Others, however, take a two-fold view of the meaning... | |
 | George Ayliffe Poole - 1837 - 414 pages
...thus, through the bishop, commits the exercise thereof to the presbyter, at his ordination : " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest...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.... | |
 | 1837 - 528 pages
...question ; When one is set apart for the ministry, and the bishop pronounces over him the words, " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest...committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands," do you think that he receives no spiritual benefit ? or that no spiritual benefit is thereby implied... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pages
...Order of Pritithood; the Receiver* humbly kneeling upon their knetl, and the Bilhop laying, RECEIVE the holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Priest...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.... | |
 | Anglican fathers - 1838 - 598 pages
...thereunto by lawful authority, &c. — Preface to the Ordination Service Book. III. Receive the HOLY GIIOST for the office and work of a Priest in the Church...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.... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1838 - 266 pages
...similar form is used at the ordination of priests in the Church of England. The bishop says, " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the church of God, now committed to thee by the imposition of our hands," &c. Believing that by these formularies, they have been admitted... | |
 | 1839 - 650 pages
...name) who appoints the bishops ;* that is, who dictates who the men shall be who shall profess to give the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God, together with the power of remitting and retaining sins. Thus a man who is seeking mere political ends... | |
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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. 
