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WE yield the humble (And then speaking to the

thanks, O heavenly Fa- new baptized perfons, he shall proceed, and fay,)

ther, that thou haft vouchfa

fed to call us to the knowledge A

Nd as for you, who have of thy grace and faith in thee; now by Baptifm put on Increase this knowledge, and Chrift, it is your part and duty confirm this faith in us ever- also, being made the children nore. Give thy Holy Spirit of God, and of the light by to these perfons, that being now faith in Jefus Chrift, to walk anborn again, and made heirs of fwerably to your Chriftian caleverlasting falvation through ling, and as becometh the chil our Lord Jefus Chrift, they dren of light: remembring almay continue thy fervants, and ways, that Baptifm reprefenteth attain thy promifes, through unto us our profeffion; which the fame Lord Jefus Chrift thy is, to follow the example of our Son, who liveth and reigneth Saviour Chrift, and to be made with thee in the unity of the like unto him; that as he died fame Holy Spirit everlastingly. and rofe again for us; fo fhould we who are baptized, die from fin, and rife again unto righteoufness, continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue, and godliness of living.

Amen.

Then all standing up, the
Prieft fhall use the Exhorta-
tion following; Speaking to
the Godfathers and Godmo-
thers firft.
Orafmuch as these persons

Faveromited in your pre-It is expedient that every per

fence, to renounce the devil
and all his works, to believe in
God, and to serve him
; ye
muft remember that it is your
part and duty to put them in
mind, what a folemn vow, pro-
mife and profeffion they have
now made before this Congre-
gation, and especially before
you their chofen witneffes. And
ye are alfo to call upon them to
ife all diligence to be rightly
inftructed in Gods holy Word,
that fo they may grow in grace,
and in the knowledge of our
Lord Jefus Chrift, and live
godly, righteoufly, and foberly
in this prefent world.

Jon thus baptized should be Confirmed by the Bishop fo foon after his Baptifm as conveniently may be that fo he may be admitted to the holy

Communion.

If any persons not baptized in their Infancy fall be brought to be baptized before they come to years of difcretion to anfwer for themselves; it may fuffice to use the Office for Publick Baptifm of Infants, or (in cafe of extreme danger) the Office for Private Baptifm, only changing the word [Infant] for [Child or Perfon] as occafion requireth.

A Cate

be learned of every Perfon before he be brought to be Confirmed by the Bishop..

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Question
Hat is your Name?
An/wer. N. or M.
Queftion. Who gave

you this Name?

Anfwer. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptifm, wherein I was made a member of Chrift, the child of God, and an inheritor of the King dom of heaven.

And in Jefus Chrift his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghoft, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead and buried, He defcended into Hell; The third day he rofe again from the dead, He afcended into Heaven, And fitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; Queftion. What did your From thence he fhall come to Godfathers and Godmothers judge the quick and the dead. : then for you? I believe in the Holy Ghost Anfwer. They did promife The holy Catholick Church; and vow three things in my The Communion of Saints name. First, that I fhould re- The forgiveness of fins; The nounce the devil and all his refurrection of the body, And works, the pomps and vanity of the life everlafting. Amen. this wicked world, and all the Question. What doft thou finful lufts of the flesh. Second- chiefly learn in thefe Articles ly, that I fhould believe all the o: thy Belief? Articles of the Chriftian Faith. And thirdly, that I fhould keep Gods holy will and commandments, and walk in the fame world.. all the days of my life.

Question Doft thou not think that thou art bound to believe, and to do, as they have promised for thee?

Anfwer. Yes verily, and by Gods help fo I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this ftate of falvation, through Jefus Chrift our Saviour. And I pray unto God to give me his grace, that I may continue in the fame unto my lifes end.

Catechift. Rehearse the: Articles of thy Belief.

Answer.

Anfwer. First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me, and all the

Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind.

Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghoft, who fanctifieth me, and all the elect people of God.

Question. You faid that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promife for you, that you fhould keep Gods command ments. Tell me how many there be?

Answer. Ten

Question. Which be they?
Answer.

He

The fame which God forked

in the twentieth Chapter Believe in God the Father of Exodus, faying, I am the Almighty, Maker of Heaven Lord thy God, who brònghei

and Earth:

H.S

thee

thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the houfe of bondage.
I. Thou fhalt have none o-
ther gods but me.

II. Thou shalt not make to thy felf any graven image, nor the likenels of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, not worship them: ForI the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and vifit the fins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth gencration of them that hate me, and fhew mercy unto thoufands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.

III. Thou fhalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain.

IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all that thou haft to do, but the feventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou fhalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy fon, and thy daughter, thy man-fervant, and thy maid-fervant, thy cattle, and the ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day; wherefore the Lord bleffed the feventh day, and hallowed it.

V. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. VI.Thou shalt dono murder. VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not fteal. IX. Thou fakt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, thou fhalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his fervant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Question. What dost thou chiefly learn by these commandments?

Anfwer. I learn two things: my duty towards God, and my duty towards my neighbour. Queftion. What is thy duty towards God?

Anfwer. My duty towards God, is to believe in him, to fear him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my foul, and with all my ftrength; to worfhip him, to give him thanks, to put my whole truft in him, to call upon him, to honour his holy Name and his Word; and to ferve him truly all the days of my life.

Queftion. What is thy duty towards thy neighbour?

Anfwer. My duty towards my neighbour, is to love him as my felf, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me. To love, honour, and fuccour my father and mother. To honour and obey the King, and all that are put in authority under him. To fubmit my felf to all my governors, teachers, fpiritual paftors and matters. To order my felf lowly and reverently to all my betters. To hurt no body by word or deed. To be true and juft in all my dealing. To

bear

bear no matice nor hatred in my and that he will be merciful unheart. To keep my hands from to us, and forgive us our fins; picking and fealing, and my and that it will plea e him to tongue from evil fpeaking, lying and flandering. To keep my body in temperance, fober nefs, and chastity. Not to covet nor defire other mens goods; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that ftate of life unto which it fhall please God to call me.

Catechift. My good child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thy felf, nor to walk in the commandments of God, and to ferve him, without his special grace which thou muft learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer. Let me hear therefore if thou canft fay the Lords Prayer?

Answer.

Ur Father, which art in ОЧЕ 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.

fave and defend us in all dangers ghoftly and bodily; and that he will keep us from all fin and wickedness, and from our ghoftly enemy, and from everlafting death. And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. And therefore I fay, Amen. So be it.

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Question.

Ow many Sacraments hath
Christ ordained in his

Church?

Anfwer. Two only as generally neceffary to falvation, that is to fay, Baptifm, and the Supper of the Lord.

Queftion.What meanest thou by this word Sacrament.

Anfwer. I mean an outward and vifible fign of an inward and spiritual grace, given unto us, ordained by Chrift himself, as a means whereby we receive. the fame, and a pledge to affure us thereof.

Queftion. How many parts are there in a Sacrament?

Answer. Two: the outward vifiole fign, and the inward fpiritual grace.

Queftion. What is the outward vifible fign or form in Baptifm?

Anfwer. Water: wherein the perfon is baptized, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Queftion. What defireft thou of God in this Prayer? Anfw. I defire my Lord God our heavenly Father, who is the giver of all goodness, to fend his grace unto me, and to all people, that we may worhip him, ferve him, and obey him as we ought to do. And Anfwer. A death unto fin, I pray unto God, that he will and a new birth unto righteouf fend us all things that be need- nefs: for being by nature bora ful both for our fouls and bodies; in fin, and the children of H6 wrath,

Queflin. What is the inward and fpiritual grace?

wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace.

Anfwer. Bread and Wine which the Lord hath command

Queftion. What is required ed to be received. of perfons to be baptized?

Anfwer. Repentance, whereby they forfake fin; and faith,

Question. What is the inward part or thing fignified?

Anfwer. The Body and Blood

whereby they ftedfaftly believe of Chrift, which are verily and

indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lords Supper. Queftion. What are the bene

the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament. Question. Why then are infants baptized, when by reafon fits whereof we are partakers of their tender age they cannot thereby? perform them?

Answer. The ftrengthning Anfwer. Because they pro- and refreshing of our fouls by mife them both by their Sure- the Body and Blood of Chrift, ties: which promife, when they as our bodies are by the Bread Come to age, themselves are and Wine.

bound to perform.

Queflion. What is required Queftion. Why was the Sa- of them who come to the Lords crament of the Lords Supper Supper? ordained?

Anfwer. To examine themAnfwer. For the continual felves, whether they repent remembrance of the facrifice of them truly of their former fins, the death of Chrift, and of the fted faftly purpofing to lead a benefits which WC receive new life; have a lively faith in thereby. Gods mercy through Chrift, Question. What is the out- with a thankful remembrance ward part or fign of the Lords of his death; and be in charity Supper? with all men.

The Curate of every Parish fhall diligently upon Sundays and Holy-days, after the Second Leffon at Evening Prayer, openly in the Church instruct and examine so many children of his Parish fent unto him, as he shall think convenient, in fome part of this Catechifm.

And all Fathers, M thers, Maßers and Dames, fhall cause their Children, Servants and Apprentices (which have not learned their Catechifm) to come to the Church at the time appointed,and obediently to hear, and be ordered by the Curate, until fuch time as they have learned all that is here appointed for them to learn. So foon as Children are come to a competent age, and can say in their mother tongue the Creed, the Lords Prayer, and the Ten Commandments; and also can answer to the other Questions of this fhort Catechism; they shall be brought to the Bishop. And every one shall have a Godfather or a Godmother, as a witness of their Confirmation

And whenfoever the Bishop shall give knowledge for Children to he brought unto him for their Confirmation, the Curate of every Parish fall either bring, or fend in writing, with bis hand

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