 | John E. Booty, Stephen Sykes, Jonathan Knight - Religion - 1998 - 542 pages
...conferred. At the revision of 1661/2, therefore, the words, 'for the office and work of a Priest/Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands', were inserted into them, in an attempt to remedy this alleged defect. THE THREEFOLD MINISTRY: BISHOPS... | |
 | Gillian Rosemary Evans - Ecclesiastical law - 1998 - 180 pages
...of the 'binding and loosing' authority. 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 those sins thou dost retain, they are retained.... | |
 | Renita J. Weems - Religion - 2000 - 212 pages
...be ordained, "The Lord pour upon thce the Holy Ghost for the office and work of an itinerant elder in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands." With these words, and under the weight of their calloused hands, I was being sent out into an itinerant... | |
 | John Kendall Nelson - Religion - 2001 - 502 pages
...bishop invoked the Holy Spirit for each: "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 does retain, they are retained.... | |
 | Karen B. Westerfield Tucker - Religion - 2001 - 368 pages
...sins, and substituting "elder" for "priest": Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of an Elder in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. And be thou a faithful Dispenser of the Word of God, and of his holy Sacraments; in the Name of the... | |
 | Religion - 2001 - 300 pages
...occur, as it seeks to embed its divinely given mission at particular times and in particular places. C. The office and work of a bishop in the Church of God 14. Apart from the Ordinal, to which reference has been made above (para. 3), there exists no normative... | |
 | Ruth H. Finnegan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 332 pages
...it, 1987: 80), verhalised in the words ‘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'. Touch often forms a significant part of rites of passage: performing the achievement of new status.... | |
 | Ruth H. Finnegan - Interpersonal communication - 2002 - 340 pages
...it, 1987: 580), verbalised in the words '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'. Touch often forms a significant part of rites of passage: performing the achievement of new status.... | |
 | John Henry Newman - England - 2002 - 230 pages
...the name,' &c. And the priesthood thus: '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. Who sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.... | |
 | Ruth H. Finnegan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 332 pages
...it, 1987: 580), verbalised in the words ‘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'. Touch often forms a significant part of rites of passage: performing the achievement of new status.... | |
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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. 
