Confession and Absolution The Teaching of the Church of England, as Interpreted and Illustrated by the Writings of the Reformers of the Sixteenth Century (Classic Reprint)

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This was their ultimate tribunal. The successive commissions given by Christ, referred to without sharp distinction. What Christ promised in Matt. Xvi. And xviii. He actually gave in John xx. The Keys. Binding and Loosing. The power to forgive and to retain sins. This Ministry of Reconciliation, identified with other forms of commission after the Resurrection. Matt. Xxviii. 18 - 20, Mk. Xvi. 15, 16, Lk. Xxiv. 47. James v. 14 - 16. Roman limitations condemned. Such confession mutual. New Translations of the Bible. Their effect upon this controversy. Plain texts of Scripture wrested by Romanists from their meanings. Church Discipline in l and 2 Corinthians. To deliver such an one unto Satan. Disputes between Whitgift and Cartwright. Jewel and Harding. Fulke and Martin. New tesment use of wwi! Two effects of ministerial ddxms'. (i.) As touching sin it only declameth. (ii.) As concerning the right in sacred mysteries it truly restoreth.

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