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

Then shall each child's Sponsor give it the kiss of peace, and the Priest shall give the children a little of the confecrated Milk and Honey, and shall say,

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Milk and Honey in token of your spiritual 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 rest, the kingdom of heaven, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then shall the Sponsors 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 tréspasses, as we forgive them that trespass 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 shall the Priest pronounce this Blessing over the baptized childrens

A Lmighty 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 assuredly enjoy the truth, through his Christ; by whom glory be to the Father in the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever. Amen. Then

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Then shall 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.

Then shall the Priest fay,

W E yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, for that it hath pleased thee to regenerate 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 righteousness, 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 also be partakers of his refurrection; fo that finally with the refidue of thy holy church, they may be inheritours of thine everlasting kingdom, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then shall the Priest say to the Sponsors this exhortation following.

Forasmuch as these children have promised, by you their fureties, to renounce the devil and all his works, to believe in God, and to serve him; ye must remember, that it is your part and duty to fee that these infants be taught, so soon as they shall be

able to learn, what a folemn vow, promise, and profeffion, they have here made by you. And that they may know these things the better, ye shall call upon them to hear fermons; and chiefly ye shall provide that they may learn the Creed, the Lord's prayer, and the ten Commandments, and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his foul's health; and ye shall use your utmost endeavours, that these children may be virtuoufly brought up to lead a godly and christian life; remembring always, that Baptifm doth represent unto us our profeffion, which is to follow the example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto him; that as he died and rose again for us, so should we who are baptized, die from fin, and rise 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 fay,

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

Note, that if the number of children to be baptized and multitude of people present be so great, that they cannot conveniently stand at the Church-door; then let them stand 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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Ministration of Publick Baptifm

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ADULT CATECHUMENS,

OR

Such as are of riper years, and able to answet for themselves.

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 shall examine whether they be fufficiently instructed in the principles of the Chriftian religion, and exhort them to prepare themselves with prayers and fasting for the re ceiving of this Holy Sacrament.

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And if they ball be found fit, then the Sponsors 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 Baptism must be ready at the Church-door at the time that the Priest by his discretion shall appoint. And the Priest and Deacon coming to the Churchdoor,

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door, and standing there, the Priest shall fay to the perfons that are to be baptized.

Have ye been already baptized or no?

If they anfwer, No; then shall 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 Chrift faith, None can enter into the kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghost; let us call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, 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 Christ's Holy Church, and be made lively members of the same.

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

Then shall the Priest say, the persons to be baptized kneeling,

A Lmighty and everlasting God, who of thy great

mercy didst save Noah and his family in the ark, and also didst safely lead the children of Ifrael thy people through the Red-fea, figuring thereby thy holy baptifm; and by the baptifm of thy wellbeloved Son Jesus Christ in the river Jordan didst sanctify the element of Water to the mystical washing away of fin: We beseech thee of thine infinite mercy,

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