...All unrighteousness is sin ; and there is a sin not unto death." John xx. 23. " Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain they are retained." Acts iii. 19. " Repent ye, therefore, and be converted that your sins may be blotted out, when the...

...by storm), that, for Scripture proof of the sacrament, they give John, xx. 23. " Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." Thus jesuitically substituting " absolution" for penance. But this is merely blinking the question,...

...loosed in heaven. — And he breathed on them, and said, Receive yc the Holy Ghost; whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained. Words, undoubtedly including, and indeed chiefly referring to the doctrine delivered by the apostles...

...Imprimatur, [c] Jon AN. WILLS, Vice-Con. Waclham Coll. Dec. 5, 1793. ST. JOHN, xx. 23. Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained. OUR blessed Lord is represented as speaking these important words, at the time when his work on earth,...

...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 authority,...

...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 the moment...

...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 that despiseth...

...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 that despiseth...

...passage on which they ground their power of absolution is that in John xx. 23 : " Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." But this U not to the purpose ; since this was a special commission to the apostles themselves, and...

...this, he " breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive " ye the Holy Ghost: whosesoever sins ye remit, " they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins " ye retain, they are retained*." "The cause," says the learned Hooker, " why we breathe not " as Christ did on them unto whom he imparted...