...of the church. If he lays his hands on the head of a young man under the canonical age, and says " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest," the bishop must be in error, deceived with respect to the age : Though his hand and his lips are employed,...

...bishop is authorized to consecrate priests by tViis prescribed form:* "Receive the HOLY GHOST for tlie office and work of a priest in the church of GOD, now committed unto thre by the imposition of our band*; whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven: anil whose sins...

...Receive the Holy ' Ghost now committed unto thee by the im' position of our hands. Whose sins thon dost • forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins ' thou dost retain, they arc retained.' Now, roetbinks, a man must naturally infer from hence, that since this authority is...

...appoints them to their office. The same observation may be applied to the other part of the form. " Whose sins thou dost forgive " they are forgiven : and whose sins thou dost re" tain they are retained." When these words were gpokeu by our Lord to his Apostles, they had been...

...the order of Priesthood ; the Receivers humbly " kneeling upon their knees, and the Bishop saying, " Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of...whose " sins thou dost retain, they are retained." * A Reading-master? No : — a Speaknig-master? Yes. So say the Methodist, the Quaker, yea, and the...

...says to him, with solemn laying on of hands, both by the Bishop and the Priests who are present, — " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of...thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou jdost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained." The Church...

...ry one tkut recevpcth the order of Prtcsthand; the Receivers humbly kneeling, and the Bishop saying, RECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the .'hurdi of God, now committed unto thee >y tke imposition of our hands: whose sins thou dost forgive,...

...the order of priesthood, the receiver, humbly kneeling on his knees, the bishop says,—' Receive ye 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: whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven, and whose sins...

...student's head, then kneeling before him, and makes this solemn address, — Receive the Holy Ghost — Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained ; in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen : — is this a language which...

...before them, the Presiding Bishop saying, 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. Amen. And remember that thou stir...