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Jefus Chrift, and be partakers of the rewards of holiness and purity in the life everlasting. Amen.

Then shall each child's Sponfor give it the kifs of peace, and the Prieft fhall give the children a little of the confecrated Milk and Honey, and fshall say,

BE ye admitted into the congregation of Chrift's

flock, receive the kifs of peace, and taste of this Milk and Honey in token of your fpiritual infancy, and of your entrance into the true land of promife, the church; and may ye at the last day enter into the land of eternal reft, the kingdom of heaven, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then fhall the Sponfors in the name of the children fay aloud the Lord's prayer.

OUR Father, who art in heaven; Hallowed be

thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our tréfpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Then fhall the Prieft pronounce this Bleffing over the baptized children:

Almighty God, the Father of Chrift his onlybegotten Son, give you bodies undefiled, pure hearts, and watchful minds, knowledge without error, and the powerful influence of his Holy Spirit, that ye may obtain and affuredly enjoy the truth, through his Chrift; by whom glory be to the Father in the Holy Ghoft, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Then fhall the Deacon fay,

Seeing now, dearly beloved, that these children are regenerate and grafted into the body of Chrift's church, let us give thanks unto Almighty God for these benefits, and with one accord make our prayers unto him, that these children may lead the rest of their lives according to this beginning.

Anfw. Lord, have mercy: We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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Then fhall the Prieft fay,

E yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, for that it hath pleased thee to rege⚫nerate these infants with thy Holy Spirit, to receive them for thine own children by adoption, and to incorporate them into thy holy church. And humbly we beseech thee to grant, that they being dead unto fin, and living unto righteouínefs, and being buried with Chrift in his death, may crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of fin; and that as they are made partakers of the death of thy Son, they may alfo be partakers of his refurrection; fo that finally with the refidue of thy holy church, they may be inheritours of thine everlasting kingdom, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Then fhall the Priest fay to the Sponsors this exhortation following.

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Orafmuch as these children have promised, by you their fureties, to renounce the devil and all his works, to believe in God, and to ferve him; ye must remember, that it is your part and duty to fee that thefe infants be taught, fo foon as they fhall be

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able to learn, what a folemn vow, promife, and profeffion, they have here made by you. And that they may know these things the better, ye fhall call upon them to hear fermons; and chiefly ye fhall provide that they may learn the Creed, the Lord's prayer, and the ten Commandments, and all other things which a Chriftian ought to know and believe to his foul's health; and ye fhall use your utmoft endeavours, that these children may be virtuously brought up to lead a godly and chriftian life; remembring always, that Baptifm doth reprefent unto us our profeffion, which is to follow the example of our Saviour Chrift, and to be made like unto him; that as he died and rofe again for us, fo fhould we who are baptized, die from fin, and rife again unto righteousness, continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue. and godliness of living.

Then Shall the Deacon add, and say,

Ye are to take care, that these children be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed by him fo foon as conveniently may be, that fo they may be admitted to the holy communion.

Note, that if the number of children to be baptized and multitude of people prefent be fo great, that they cannot conveniently ftand at the Church-door; then let them fand within the Church in fome convenient place nigh unto the Church-door, and there let all things be faid and done, appointed to be faid and done at the Church-door.

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Such as are of riper years, and able to answer for themfelves.

When Catechumens are to be baptized, they shall give in their names before Lent, defiring to be baptized at the approaching Pafchal Festival.

And the Priest or Deacon fhall examine whether they be fufficiently inftructed in the principles of the Chriftian religion, and exhort them to prepare themselves with prayers and fafting for the res ceiving of this Holy Sacrament.

And if they shall be found fit, then the Sponfors or Witnesses (who shall be of the Faithful and above fixteen years of age, a Man for a MaleCatechumen and a Woman for a Female-Catechumen) and the People with the Candidates for Baptifm must be ready at the Church-door at the time that the Prieft by his difcretion fhall appoint. And the Prieft and Deacon coming to the Church

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door, and ftanding there, the Priest fhall fay to the perfons that are to be baptized.

Have ye been already baptized or no?

If they anfwer, No; then fhall the Deacon proceed as followeth.

DEarly beloved, forafmuch as all men are conceived and born in fin, (and that which is born of the flesh, is flesh) and they that are in the flesh cannot please God, but live in fin, committing many actual tranfgreffions; and that our Saviour Christ faith, None can enter into the kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghoft; let us call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, that of his bounteous mercy he will grant to these perfons that thing which by nature they cannot have, that they may be baptized with Water and the Holy Ghost, and be received into Chrift's Holy Church, and be made lively members of the fame.

People. Lord, have mercy: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

Then fhall the Priest fay, the perfons to be baptized kneeling,

Almighty and everlafting God, who of thy great

mercy didft fave Noah and his family in the ark, and alfo didft fafely lead the children of Ifrael thy people through the Red-fea, figuring thereby thy holy baptifm; and by the baptifm of thy wellbeloved Son Jefus Chrift in the river Jordan didft fanctify the element of Water to the mystical washing away of fin: We befeech thee of thine infinite mercy,

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