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Then shall the Priest take one of the children by the right hand, the others being brought after him; and as he walketh towards the Baptistery or Font, be shall say,

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Lord vouchsafe to receive you into his holy houshold, and to keep and govern you always in the same, that ye may have everlasting life. Amen.

When they are all come with the People to the Baptistery or Font, which is then to be filled with pure water, the Priest shall speak to the Sponsors on this wife.

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DEarly beloved, ye have brought these children

here to be baptized, ye have prayed that our Lord Jesus Christ would vouchsafe to receive them, to release them of their fins, to sanctify them with the Holy Ghost, to give them the kingdom of hea ven and everlasting life, Ye have heard also, that our Lord Jesus Christ hath promised in his Gospel, to grant all these things that ye have prayed for; which promise he for his part will most surely keep and perform. Wherefore after this promise made by Christ, these infants must also faithfully for their parts, promise by you who are their fureties, that they will renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy word, and obediently keep his commandments. I demand therefore,

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the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous defires

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of the fame, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow them nor be led by them?

Then the Sponsor holding the child in one arm, shall Stretch out the other hand, and say aloud,

I renounce them all.

Then the Sponsor shall turn to the East, and the Priest Shall proceed thus.

Dost thou associate thy felf to Chrift, and enter into covenant with him?

And the Sponsor lifting up the hand and eyes towards

I do.

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Pr. Dost thou believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth?

And in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our Lord? And that he was conceived by the Holy Ghost; born of the Virgin Mary; that he fuffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; that he went down into Hades, and also did rise again the third day; that he afcended into heaven, and fitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; and from thence shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quick and the dead?

And dost thou believe in the Holy Ghost; The Holy Catholick Church; The communion of Saints; The remiffion of fins; The refurrection of the flesh; And everlasting life after death?

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And the Sponsor lifting up the hand and eyes towards heaven, shall answer,

All this I stedfastly believe.

Pr. Wilt thou be baptized in this faith?

And the Sponsor bowing shall answer,

That is my defire.

Pr. Wilt thou then obediently keep God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the fame all the days of thy life?

And the Sponsor lifting up the hand and eyes towards heaven, shall answer,

I will.

Then the Priest asking the Sponsor the name, shall anoint the child with the Holy Oil, making the fign of the Cross upon it's forehead, breast, and palms of the hands, and saying,

N. the servant of God is anointed with Holy Oil, and signed with the fign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he may not be ashamed to confess the faith of Chrift crucified, but may have courage and strength to fight manfully under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful foldier and fervant unto his life's end. Amen.

And thus shall it be faid and done to each Sponsor and child feparately; after which the Prieft Shall say,

Merciful God, grant that the old Adam in these children may be so buried, that the new

man may be raised up in them. Amen.

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Grant that all carnal affections may die in them, and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in them. Amen.

Grant that they may have power and strength to have victory, and to triumph against the devil, the world, and the flesh. Amen.

Grant that they being here dedicated to thee by our office and ministry, may also be endued with heavenly vertues, and everlastingly rewarded, through thy mercy, O blessed Lord God, who dost live, and govern all things, world without end. Amen.

Then the Priest shall confecrate the water, Saying, WE

E bless thee, we glorify thee, O Lord God Almighty, the Father of the only-begotten God; we give thee thanks for that thou hast fent thy Sơn to be made Man for us and for our falvation, and for that he vouchsafed during his incarnation to be obedient in all things, to preach the kingdom of heaven, the remission of fins, and the refurrection of the dead. We also adore thee, O thou onlybegotten God the Son, and give thanks to thee, and through thee to the Father, for that thou didst submit to fuffer death upon the cross for all men, appointing the baptifm of regeneration as the type or symbol thereof. We farther praise thee, O God, thou Lord of the universe, through the name of Christ, in the Holy Ghost, for that thou didst not utterly caft off mankind, but at different feasons didst exercise different dispensations of thy providence over them. At first thou gavest to Adam in Paradise that Paradife for an habitation of pleasure, and on account of thy providence didst lay a command upon him; which when he had tranfgreffed, thou didst justly expel him; yet in thy goodness thou

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didst not abandon and reject him, but didst instruct and chastise his posterity in various manners, and at last didst send thy Son to be made Man for the fake of men, and to take upon him all the passions of human nature, fin only excepted. Do thou therefore, O Lord God, look down from heaven, and sanctify here the Priest is to make the fign of the cross over the water this water; give it grace and power, that they who are to be baptized therein, according to the command of thy Christ, may be crucified with him and die with him, may be buried with him, and rise again with him to the adoption which cometh by him, that so they may die unto fin and live unto righteousness, through Jesus Chrift our Lord; by whom and with whom, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, all honour and glory be unto Thee, O Father Almighty, world without end. Amen.

Then shall the Priest take each child into his bands, and dip it in the water three times, once at the distinct name of each Perfon of the Bleffed Trinity, Saying,

N. the servant of God is baptized In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Then shall the children be cloathed in white garments, and the Priest shall say,

Take these white garments for a token of the inno cency, which by God's grace is given you in the holy mystery of baptifm, and for a fign whereby ye are admonished so long as ye live, to give your felves to innocence of living: And may ye bring them forth without spot before the tribunal of our Lord Jesus

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