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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by his M… › CONFIRMATION.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Prayer after the Imposition of hands is grounded upon the practice of the Apostles,1 Heb▪ 62. & Acts 8. 17: nor doth 25 Article say, that Confirmation is a corrupt imitation of the Apostles practice, but that the 5 commonly called Sacraments, have ground partly of the corrupt following the Apostles, &c. which may be applied to some other of these 5. but cannot be applied to Confirmation, unless we make the Church speak Contradictions.
- 1Sect. 6. Ex•. 1.
Rep. But the question is not of imposition of hands in general; but this imposition in particular: And you have never proved, that this sort of imposition, called Confirmation, is mentioned in those Texts: And the 25 Article cannot more probably be thought to speak of any one of the 5. as proceeding from the corrupt imitation of the Apostles, then of Confirmation as a supposed Sacrament.
We know no harm in speaking the language of holy Scriptures,1 Acts 8. 15. they laid their hands upon them, and they received the holy Ghost; and though imposition of hands be not a Sacrament, yet it is a very fit sign, to certify the persons what is then done for them, as the Prayer speaks.
We know no harm in speaking the language of holy Scriptures,