 | Jeremy Collier - 1841 - 582 σελίδες
...is to say, the whole multitude of Christian people, hath so allowed and received them hitherto. 56. The apostles laid their hands upon those who were baptized, and they received the Holy Ghost (Acts viii.), which thing they would never have attempted but only by revelation and precept of the Holy... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1841 - 590 σελίδες
...is to say, the whole multitude of Christian people, hath so allowed and received them hitherto. 66. The apostles laid their hands upon those who were baptized, and they received the Holy Ghost (Acts viii.), which thing they would never have attempted but only by revelation and precept of the Holy... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1852 - 618 σελίδες
...is to say, the whole multitude of Christian people, hath so allowed and received them hitherto. 56. The apostles laid their hands upon those who were baptized, and they received the Holy Ghost, (Acts viii.) which thinç they would never have attempted but only by revelation anJ precept of the Holy... | |
 | Thomas Field - 1904 - 124 σελίδες
...Master ordered this means of grace. For we find that after our Lord's Ascension, from the very first the Apostles laid their hands upon those who were baptized, and they received the Holy Ghost. We can hardly imagine this ceremony would have heen performed, or this grace given, had not our Lord... | |
 | Saint Thomas (Aquinas) - 1914 - 484 σελίδες
...this sacrament without chrism, by the mere imposition of hands: for it is written (Acts viii. 17) that the apostles laid their hands upon those who were baptized, and they received the Holy Ghost. Therefore chrism is not the matter of this sacrament: since the matter is essential to the sacrament.... | |
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... albeit all things concerning and appertaining unto this Sacrament be not expressly had in Scripture, yet ought we reverently and obediently to accept and receive the same, forasmuch as the Church, that is to say, the whole multitude of Christian people,... 