-- 21. But when it is said that "the Holy Spirit is given by the imposition of hands in the Catholic Church only, I suppose that our ancestors meant that we should understand thereby what the apostle says, "Because the love of God is shed abroad in our he

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Footnotes:

[1299] Romans 5:5.

[1300] 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.

[1301] 1 Corinthians 12:11.

[1302] Acts 8:13.

[1303] 1 Samuel 10:6, 10.

[1304] 1 Timothy 1:5.

[1305] He refers to laying on of hands such as he mentions below, Book V. c. xxiii.: "If the laying on of hands were not applied to one coming from heresy, he would be, as it were, judged to be wholly blameless."