 | William Clayton Clayton - 1838 - 72 pages
...concluding their office, " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy holy Spirit,...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church. And humbly we beseech thee to grant, that he being dead unto sin, and living unto righteousness, and... | |
 | John Dick - 1838 - 588 pages
...Almighty God for these benefits." "We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit,...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church." We maintain that, as many of the Jews were uncircumcised in heart, so many children of Christians are... | |
 | Richard Laurence - 1838 - 320 pages
...which thus commences ; ' We yield thee hearty thanks, most • merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant ' with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adop' tion, fyc.' Superstition was not then, nor is it now, annihilated in the minds of the common... | |
 | 1839 - 650 pages
...regenerated, &c." — and, "We yield thee most hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thy own child by adoption, &c." These are significant words ; and solemn indeed are the subjects they... | |
 | Thomas Mount Fallow - 1838 - 302 pages
...Then shall the priest say, We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy holy Spirit, to receive him for Use of Salisbury. Liturgy of Herman. First Book of Edward VI. At the last ende, the Priest callyng... | |
 | 1839 - 300 pages
...priest shall say as follows. " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit,...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church." In conformity with this service, the Church refuses Christian burial to unbaptized children. In the... | |
 | 1844 - 582 pages
...— the child of God — and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven," have some reference to those of "to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit —...adoption — and to incorporate him into thy holy Church" in the Baptismal Service? I am confirmed in my opinion (p. 384, as to the force of the definite article... | |
 | William Staunton - 1839 - 486 pages
...hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant [or Person] with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church." Now all this may seem exceedingly mysterious and heretical to those, who are familiar only with the... | |
 | Matthew Blagden Hale (Bishop of Perth, Australia.) - 1839 - 444 pages
...that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant (mark — not to outward Church privileges, but) with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church." And at the end of the service you see a note added in these words : " It is certain, by God's word,... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1839 - 616 pages
...thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, ihat it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with Uiy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church. And humbly we beseech thee to grant that he, being dead unto siu, and living unto righteousness, and... | |
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We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church. 
