And then naming it after them (if they fhall certify him that the Child may well endure it) he fhall dip it in the Water difcreetly and warily, saying, N. Name of the Father, and unto righteoufnefs, and being

N. Name of the Father, and the refidue of thy holy Church,

oufnels; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all Virtue and godliness of living.

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thop, to be Confirmed by him, fo foon as he can fay the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Com mandments in the vulgar tongue, and be further inftructed in the Church Catechifm fet forth for that purpose.

Then fhal! he add, and fay; 7E are to take care that this Child be brought to the BiT is certain by God's Word, that Children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual fin, are undoubtedly faved. To take away all fcruple concerning the Sign of the Cros "in Baptifm; the true explication thereof, and the jut reafons for the retaining of it, may be teen in the xxxth Canon, first published in the Year MDCIV."

The MINISTRATION of

PRIVATE BAPTISM of CHILDREN in Houses. THE Curates of every Parish hall often admonish the People that they defer not the Baptifm of their Children longer than the fir or fecond Sunday next after their Birth, or other Holy-day falling between, unless upon a great and reafonable caufe, to be approved of by the Curate.

And also they fhall warn them, that without like great caufe and neceffity they procure not their Children to be baptized at home in their houses. But when need all compel them fo io do, then Baptifm fhall be adminiflered on this fashion:

First let the Minifier of the Parish (or in his abfence, any other lar ful Minifler that can be procured) with them that are prefent, call upon God, and fay the Lord's Prayer, and fo many of the Celleas appointed to be faid before in the Form of Publick Baptifm, as the time and prefent exigence will fuffer. And then the Child being named by fome one that is prefent, the Minister shall pour water upon it, fay. ing these words:

I baptize thee, In the

N Name of the Father, and

of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Amen.

Then all kneeling down the Minier fhall give thanks unto God, and fay,

WE

E yield thee hearty thanks, moft merciful Father, that it hath pleafed nee to repererate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit; to receive him ter thine own Child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church. And we hun.bly bef:ech thee to grant, that as he is now made partaker of the death of thy Son,

And let them not doubt, but that the Child fo baptized is larefully and fufficiently bap tized, and ought not to be bagtized again. Yet nevertheles if the Child, which is after this Jurt baptized, do afterward live, it is expedient that it be brought into the Church, to the intent that if the Minifter of the fame Parish did himself baptize that Child, the Congregation may be cer tified of the true form of Bap tim, by him privately before fed. In which cafe he fhall fay thus,

CERTIFY you, that accord.

fo he may be alfo of his refurreeing to the due and preferibed

tion; and that finally, with the refidue of thy faints, he may inherit thine everlafting kingdom, through the fame thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Order of the Church, at fuch a time, and at fuch a place, be ore divers witneffes I baptized this Child.

But if the Child were baptized and forbid them not: for of fuch by any other lawful Miniger; is the kingdom of God. Verily then the Minifter of the Parijn 1 fay unto you, Who'oever thail where the Child was born or not receive the kingdom of God chrisened, fhall examine and as a little child, he thall not entry whether the Child be law- ter therein. And he took them fully baptized or no. In zehich up in his arms, put his hands cafe; if thofe that bring any upon them, and bleffed them. Child to the Church do anfwer that the Jame Child is already baptized, then fhall the Minifter examine them further, faying, Y whom

After the Gospel is read, the Minifter fhall make this brief Exe hortation upon the words of the Gofpel.

ye hear in this Gof

rized was this Child bap- BELOVE wyrds of our Saviour

Btized?

Who was prefent when this Child was baptized?

Because fome things effential to this Sacrameat may happen to be omitted through fear or hate, in fuch times of extremity; therefore I demand fur ther of you,

With what matter was this Child bap ized?

With what words was this Child baptized?

And if the Minifter fhall find by the answers of fuch as bring the Child, that all things were done as they ought to be; then hall not he chriften the Child again, but fhall receive him as one of the flock of true Chriftian people, Jaying thats;

CERTIFY you, that in this cafe all is well done, and according unto due order, concern ing the baptizing of this Child; who being born in original fin, and in the wrath of God, is now by the laver of regeneration in Baptifm, received into the number of the children of God, and heirs of everiafting life: For our Lord Jefus Chrift doth not deny his grace and mercy unto fuch Infants, but oft lovingly doth call them unto him, as the holy Gofpel doth witnefs to our comfort on this wife:

S. Mark 10. 13.

THEY brought young chil. fhould touch them; and his

dren to Chrift, that he

difciples rebuked thofe that brought them. But when Jefus faw it, he was much difoleated, and faid unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me,

pel the Christ, that he commanded the children to be brought unio him; how he blamed those that would have kept them from him; how he exhorted all men to follow their innocency. Ye perceive how by his outward gefture and deed he declared his good will toward them; for he embraced them in his arms, he laid his hands upon them, and bleffed them. Doubt ye not

therefore, but earnestly believe that he hath likewife favoura bly received this prefent Infant; that he hath embraced him with the arms of his mercy; and (as he hath promifed in his holy Word) will give unto him the blefling of eternal life, and make him partaker of his everlafting kingdom. Wherefore we being thus perfuaded of the good will of our heavenly Father, declared by his Son Jesus Christ towards this Infant, let us faithfully and devoutly give thanks unto him, and fay the prayer which the Lord himfelf taught us:

Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name: Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen. A God, heavenly Father, we AIGHT'Y and everlafting give thee humble thanks, that thou haft vouchfafed to call us to the knowledge of thy grace and faith in thee; Increase this knowledge, and confirm this

faith

faith in us evermore. Give thy

Then hall the Prieft fay,
E receive this Child into the

holy Spirit to this infant, that W Congregation of Chrif's

he being born again, and being made an heir of everlafting fal

flock, and do

vation, through our Lord Jefus fign kim with
Christ, may continue thy fervant,
and attain thy promife through
the fame our Lord Jefus Chrift
thy Son, who liveth and reigneth
with thee and the Holy Spirit
now and for ever. Amen.

Then fhall the Prieft demand the Name of the Child, which being by the Godfathers and Godmothers pronounced, the Minifler fhall jay,

the fign of the
fign of the
Crofs, in token
that hereafter he
fhall not be athamed to confefs
the faith of Chrift crucified, and
manfully to fight under his ban-
ner against fin, the world, and
the devil; and to continue Chrift's
faithful foldier and fervant unto
his life's end. Amen.

Then fhall the Prieft fay,
EEING now, dearly beloved

DOST thou, in the nae the Baptifon regenerate, and graficd

devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous defires of the lame, and the carnal defires of the fleth; fo that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them? Anfw. I renounce them all.

Minister.

into the body of Chrift's Church, let us give thanks unto Almighty God for thefe benefits, and with one accord make our prayers unto him, that he may lead the reft of his life according to this be ginning.

Then hall the Priest Jay,

DOST thou believe in God WE yield thee moft hearty

the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth?

thanks, moft merciful Father, that it ha h pleafed thee to And in Jefus Chrift his only holy Spirit, to receive him for regenerate this Infant with thy begotten Son our Lord? And thine own Child by adoption, that he was conceived by the and to incorporate him into thy Holy Ghott. born of the Virgin holy Church. And humbly we Mary; that he fuffered under befcech thee to grant that he bePontius Pilate, was crucified, isg dead unto fin, and living undead, and buried; that he went to righteoufnefs, and being buridown into hell, and alfo did rife ed with Chrift in his death, may again the third day; that he af- crucify the old man, and utterly cended into heaven, and fitteth abolith the whole body of fin, and at the right hand of God the Fa that as he is made partaker of ther Almighty; and from thence the death of thy Son, he may thall come again at the end of alío be partaker of his refurrecthe world, to judge the quicktion; fo that finally with the refand the dead?

And doft thou believe in the Holy Ghoft; the holy Catholick Church; the Communion of faints the Remiflion of fins; the Refurrection of the flesh; and everlañing life after death? Anf. All this I ftedfaftly believe.

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be an inheritor of thine everdue of thy holy Church, he may lafting kingdom, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Then all flanding up, the Minifter fhall make this Exhortation to the Godfathers and Godmothers:

DORASMUCH as this Child hath

WILT thou then obediently promifed, by you hir Sure

keep God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the fame all the days of thy life? Anf. I will.

ties, to renounce the devil, and all his works, to believe in God, and to ferve him: ye muft re member that it is your parts

and