Second Book of Edw. VI. Comm. Prayer, 1604.

Common Prayer, 1661.

Minister.

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

Answer. I will.

Then the priest shall say, We receive this child into the congregation of * Here the Christ's flock, priest shall * and do sign make a cross

upon the him with the child's fore

head.

sign of the

cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil; and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. AMEN.*

Then shall the priest say,

Seeing now, dearly beloved brethren, that this child is by baptism regenerate, and grafted into the body of Christ's Church, let us give thanks unto Almighty God for these benefits; and with one accord make our prayers unto him, that he may lead

From the Office of Public Baptism of the Second Book of Edward VI.

Second Book of Edw. VI. Comm. Prayer, 1604.

Common Prayer, 1661.

the rest of his life according to this beginning. Then shall the priest say,

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 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 sin, and living unto righteousness, and being buried with Christ in his death, may crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of sin; and that, as he is made partaker of the death of thy Son, he may also be partaker of his resurrection; so that finally, with the residue of thy holy Church, he may be an inheritor of thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

Then, all standing up, the minister shall make this exhortation to the godfathers and godmothers.

Forasmuch as this child hath promised by you his sureties to renounce the devil and all his works, to believe in God, and to

Use of Salisbury.

Liturgy of Herman.

First Book of Edward VI.

him: you must remembre that it is your partes and duetie to see that this infant be taught, so sone as he shalbe able to learne, what a solemne vowe, promise, and profession he hath made by you; and that he may know these thynges the better, ye shall call upon him to heare sermons: and chiefly ye shall provide that he may learn the Crede, the Lordes praier, and the X Commaundementes in the Englishe tongue, and al other thynges whiche a Christian man ought to knowe and beleve to his soules health, and that this childe may be vertuously brought up, to leade a godly and a Christian life: Remembryng alway that Baptisme doeth represent unto us our profession, which is to folowe the example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto him, that as He dyed and rose again for us: so should we which are baptised, dye from synne, and rise againe unto righteousnes, continually mortifying al our evil and corrupt affeccions, and dayly procedyng in all vertue and godlines of livyng, &c.