Excerpt from The Romish and Prelatical Rite of Confirmation Examined: And Proved to Be Contrary to the Scriptures, and the Practice of All the Earliest and Purest Churches, Both Oriental and Western Properly, then, confirmation was A temporary usage, connected with A miraculous display. - IT IS not A sacrament, nor would that church bi: unapostolical which should reject it. - History of the Rise and Pro grass of Christianity, by Dr. Hinds of Oxford, and Chaplain to Archbishop Whately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.