...for our Saviour said to his Apostles, upon whom he built his Church, " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." Again : a man may not only passively and involuntarily be rejected, but also may, by...

...breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 T Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. 24 1] But Thomas, one of the twelve, 'called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came....

...Bands, is involved all that authority which is imparted in the commission,—Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.* That the Church of England conceives that she has with her the staff which the GREAT...

...(which he exercised) of ordain* ing. It must be shown that the words, " whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained" — elsewhere called the power of holding the keys, i. e^ the chief discipline of the...

...and whatsoever ye loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Jn. 20. 23. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain* they are retained. 91. Is a large number of persons essential to a christian church? 1 Cor. 16. 19. Aquilla...

...Chrift appeared to the eleven, after his resurrection, he said to them, " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained," John xx. 23 ; an expression which is universally admitted to be equivalent to the binding...

...sins." This assertion is grounded immediately on the words of the text ; " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained ;" being the very language in which our blessed Lord delegated to liis Apostles the authority...

...earth, shall be loosed in heaven," (see chap, xviii. 18, and John xx. 23.) " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." This quotation from the Scriptures exhibits the climax of apostolic power and authority,...

...he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. 23 Whose soever sins ye remit, are retained. Observe here, 1. The repetition of our Saviour's endearing salutation to his disciples,...

...himself has promised to confirm the sentence of his apostles, John xx. 23, Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. They would do well to consider, whether teaching a different, that is, another baptism...