forth without spot before the tribunal of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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 consecrated Milk and

Honey, and shall say: Be ye admitted into the congregation of Christ's flock, receive the kiss of peace, and taste of this milk and honey in token of your spiritual infancy, and of your entrance into the true land of promise, 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, say aloud

the Lord's Prayer : OUR Father, who art in heaven, &c. For thine, &c. Amen. Then shall the Priest pronounce this Blessing over the Baptized

Children. ALMIGHTY God, the Father of Christ 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 shall the Deacon say: SEEING now, dearly-beloved, that these children are 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 these children may lead the rest of their lives according to this beginning.

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

Then shall the Priest say: We 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 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 they are made partakers of the death of thy Son, they may also be partakers of his resurrection ; so that finally, with the residue of thy holy Church, they may be inheritors 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 sureties, 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 see that these infants be taught, so soon as they shall be able to learn, what a solemn vow, promise, and profession they have here made by you. And that they may know these things the better, ye shall call upon them to hear sermons: 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 soul's health. And ye shall use your utmost endeavours, that these children may be virtuously brought up to lead a godly and Christian life; remembering always, that Baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; 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 sin, 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 say:

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 multi

tude of people present, be so great, that they cannot conveniently stand at the Church-door; then let them stand within the Church, in some convenient place nigh unto the Church-door : and there let all things be said and done, appointed to be said and done at the Church-door.

THE MINISTRATION OF PUBLIC BAPTISM

OF ADULT CATECHUMENS,

Or such as are of riper years, and able to answer for

And if they shall be found fit, then the Sponsors or Witnesses,

(who shall be of the faithful, and above sixteen years of age, a man for a Male-Catechumen, 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 Church-door, and standing there, the Priest shall say to the persons that are to be baptized :

Have ye been already baptized, or no?

If they answer, No; then shall the Deacon proceed as

followeth. DEARLY-beloved, forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in sin, (and that which is born of the flesh, is flesh, and they that are in the flesh cannot please God, but live in sin, committing many actual transgressions ;) and that our Saviour Christ saith, 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 persons 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.