BAPTISM OF SUCH AS ARE of riper Years. Forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in Sin, and that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and they that are in the flesh cannot please God, but live in Sin, committing many actual transgressions ;.....

And by the Baptism of thy well-beloved Son Jesus Christ in the river Jordan, didst sanctify the element of water, to the mystical washing away of Sin; We beseech thee, for thine infinite mercies, that thou wilt mercifully look upon these thy Servants; wash them and sanctify them with the Holy Ghost; that they being delivered from thy wrath, may, &c......

CATECHISM. Question. Who gave you that

name?

Answer. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.

My good child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special Grace;......

Quest. What is the inward and spiritual grace (in Baptism)?

Ans. A death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness: for being by nature born in Sin, and the children of wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace.

CONFIRMATION. Almighty and everliving God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these

thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins;

Almighty and everlasting God, who makest us both to will and to do those things that be good and acceptable unto thy Divine Majesty ;......

MATRIMONY. Which is an honourable estate; instituted of God in the time of man's innocency,......

BURIAL OF THE DEAD. Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.

COMMINATION. Now seeing that all they are accursed, as the prophet David beareth witness, who do err and go astray from the commandments of God; .

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From the Thirty-nine Articles.

ARTICLE IX.

Of Original or Birth Sin.

Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk ;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original Righteousness, and is of his own Nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always

contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation. And this infection of nature doth remain, yea, in them that are regenerated; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in Greek, Peómua cagnòs, which some do expound the wis dom, some sensuality, some the affection, some" the desire of the flesh, is not subject to the Law of God. And although there is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized; yet the Apostle doth confess, that concupiscence and lust hath of itself the nature of sin.

ARTICLE X.

Of Free Will.

The condition of Man, after the Fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and ac'ceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.

ARTICLE XV.

Of Christ alone without Sin.

... But all we the rest, although baptized, and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things; and if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

From the Homilies.

BOOK I.

HOMILY 2. Of the Misery of all Mankind.
HOMILY 5. Of Good Works. (passim.)

BOOK II.

HOMILY 10. An Information, &c. (passim.) HOMILY 12. Of the Nativity. (passim.) HOMILY 16. For Whitsunday. (passim.) HOMILY 17. For Rogation Week. (passim.) HOMILY 10. Of Repentance.

THE SUM AND CONTENT OF ALL THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

Then that this very God did create Adam, the first man, after his own image and similitude, and did ordain and appoint him lord of all the creatures in the earth. Which Adam, by the envy of the devil, disobeying the commandment of his Maker, did first sin, and brought sin into this world, such and so great, that we, which are sprung of him after the flesh, are subdued unto sin, death, and damnation, brought under the yoke and tyranny of the devil.

CRANMER'S CATECHISM.

And

At what time God had made Adam and Eve, and set them in Paradise, he entreated them like a most loving and gentle father: for he made them lords over all lively creatures, both beast, fish, and fowl, and did give unto them all trees that bare fruit, that they might feed thereon; only he forbad them that they should not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And yet he gave them warning of the great loss and damage that they should suffer, if they ate of that tree saying, "Whensoever you shall taste of the fruit of that tree, you shall be made mortal, and shall die." Their duty had been unto so gentle a God and so merciful a Father, in their hearts to have believed him, trusted him, and loved him; to have obeyed him, and to keep all his commandments gladly. But our most crafty enemy, Satan, envying man's felicity, spake to Eve by the serpent and said, No, you shall not die, but you shall be like gods, knowing both good and evil." And with these most poisoned words persuaded Eve to eat of the fruit which was forbid. And Eve gave of the same to Adam, who also did eat thereof; and so did break God's commandment.

Now I pray you mark, good children, what they lost by this their disobedience. First, when Adam and Eve were thus deceived by the serpent, and persuaded that God did not favour