Aurea Legenda
. It would be uncandid not to add that this indiscreet traffickery with Romish wares was in part owing to the immense reading of these divines.
Ib.
s. i. p. 247. Acts viii. 14-17.
This is an argument indeed, and one that of itself would suffice to decide the question, if only it could be proved, or even made probable, that by the Holy Ghost in this place was meant that receiving of the Spirit to which Confirmation is by our Church declared to be the means and vehicle.
But this I suspect cannot be done. The whole passage to which sundry chapters in St. Paul's Epistles seem to supply the comment, inclines and almost compels me to understand by the Holy Ghost in this narrative the miraculous gifts,
collectively.
And in no other sense can I understand the sentence
the Holy Ghost was not yet fallen upon any of them