| Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1829 - 412 pages
...Christ breathed on his disciples, and said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost," he added, "Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained:" (John xx, 22, 23.) Mathew appears to be describing the same, or a similar, delegation of... | |
| Samuel Miller - Clergy - 1830 - 556 pages
...said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost—whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.^ These passages form the grand commission under which all lawful ministers have acted from... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 596 pages
...when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost : Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." (John xx. 21.) Even of the seventy it is said, " He that heareth you, heareth me ; and he... | |
| Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 576 pages
...when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost : Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." (John xx. 21.) Even of the seventy it is said, " He that heareth you, heareth me ; and he... | |
| Edward VI (King of England), Queen Catharine Parr (consort of Henry VIII, King of England), Anne Askew, Lady Jane Grey - Dissenters, Religious - 1831 - 504 pages
...and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven ;' also, ' Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained' — so that by the power of these words, the open sins of any, may be absolved by any one,... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1831 - 634 pages
...phrase (used in St. John, of retaining and remitting of sins) doth seem to refer; ' Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained*' that is, whomsoever ye shall think fit to detain in a state of guilt, to refuse pardon and... | |
| 1831 - 524 pages
...when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained (John xx. 21). This was but the earnest and promise of that fuller effusion, and those more... | |
| Charles Buck - Theology - 1831 - 1158 pages
...passage on which they ground their power of absolution is that in John xx. 23: " Whosesoever sins yc remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." But this is not to the purpose; since this was a special commission to the apostles themselves,... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 634 pages
...phrase (used in St. John, of retaining and remitting of sins) doth seem to refer ; ' Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained ;' that is, whomsoever ye shall think fit to detain in a state of guilt, to refuse pardon... | |
| Charles Buck - Theology - 1831 - 644 pages
...on which they ground their power of absolution is that in John xx. 23: " Whosesoever sins ye rem it, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." But this is not to the purpose; since this was a special commission to the apostles themselves,... | |
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