Then this Rubrick to follow :

For which purpose, the Arch-Bishops and Bishops are required, by themselves or some other Bishop in their stead, once in every third year at the furthest, to solemnize Confirmation through their Dioceses: And all the time between, to cause their Clergy to be diligent and faithful in Catechizing, according to this Book, and to the Canon of the Church in that behalf.

That last Rubrick on this page to go thus:

All Ministers, in every place where they are to officiate, shall, in their exhortations to the People, often admonish them, that they defer not to have their Children baptized any longer than the first or the second Sunday, or other Holyday falling between, next after the birth of their Children, unless upon a great &c.

Page 30. At the end of the first Rubrick, leave out these words, 'Dip it in water, or.'

In the next Rubrick, thus:

do afterwards live, it is hereby required that it be brought on a Sunday or Holyday, at the time of Divine Service, into the Parish Church. And if within three months it be not brought, the Church Wardens are hereby required to present unto the Ordinary the Parents or Guardians in whom the default lies to this intent, that &c.

If this may thus be set, nothing will better provide against Private Baptism than this.

Ibid. Let a Rubrick at the bottom be,

To every one of these Questions shall Answers be directly given by those that bring the Child, as far as they know.

Page 31.

concerning the Baptizing of this Child,

who, being born in original sin and in the wrath of GOD, by

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the laver of Regeneration in Baptism hath been received into the number of the Children of GOD, and of the Heirs of &c.

Page 32. The first Rubrick, thus:

Here shall they all kneel down, and shall say with the Minister, Our FATHER, Who art in Heaven &c., adding also, for Thine is the kingdom &c.

Then, standing up again, the Priest shall demand the name of the Child &c.

Page 33. The same mutations and additions to be made here at this Exhortation, as are set down before, in the Public Baptism.

*

Page 35. First, that the Children being now come to some years of discretion, and having been taught what their Godfathers &c.

In the twelfth line,

sin, and &c.

In the eighteenth line,

against all the temptations of

the Church in times past,

by which Confirmation was ordinarily ministered to them that were of grown age, that they being instructed &c.

Then let that Paragraph be divided, and set thus :

And that none may think that any detriment shall come to Children by deferring their Confirmation till years of some understanding in them, let them know for a truth that it is certain by God's Word &c.

The following Title to be this:

The Catechism, that is to say, A Form to be daily used and continued, in public and private, for the first Institution of Chil

*See page 86.

dren, to instruct them in the Principles of Christian Religion; and therefore to be learned by every one, before they be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop.

Page 36. The Title here and throughout to be,
The Institution of Children, called the Catechism.

in the Belief,

His only Son our LORD, Who was conceived.

Page 39. In the midst of that Second Answer, thus: to all my betters. All which I do also acknowledge to be a part of my duty towards GOD, in Whose place they Also to hurt nobody &c.

are.

This is requisite to be thus put in, inasmuch as the Fifth Commandment is indeed a branch of that which CHRIST calls the First Great Commandment. And it hath been lately

taught, that they were indeed by GoD's Commandment obliged to the King, but yet only as by their Duty to their Neighbour, which is, to love him as themselves, but then themselves in the first place. And let him be destroyed, nay, destroy him, rather than they should perish.

Page 43. At the fourth line, thus:

that every Child may have one, both to put him in mind of GOD's blessing in his Confirmation, and also to be his Witness, that he hath been confirmed.

Then another Rubrick, after the Title, thus:

At the end of the Communion Service, next before the Blessing, the Bishop, having all those that shall then be admitted unto

Confirmation kneeling before him, shall, by himself or some Minister appointed by him, begin thus:

Our help is in the Name of the LORD.

Answer.

Who hath made Heaven and earth &c.

Almighty and everliving GOD, Who didst heretofore vouchsafe to regenerate these Thy servants by water and the HOLY GHOST, and didst give unto them forgiveness of all their sins, We humbly beseech Thee, that they having now by the blessing of Thy Grace attained unto some knowledge of Thee, Thou wouldst strengthen them with the HOLY GHOST, the Comforter, and daily increase in them Thy manifold gifts of Grace; the spirit of wisdom and of understanding; the spirit of counsel and of ghostly strength; the spirit of knowledge and of true godliness; and fulfil them, O LORD, with the spirit of Thy holy fear, now and for ever. Amen.

Then the Bishop shall lay his hand upon every one severally, and shall say,

Defend, O LORD, (this Child), Thy servant, with Thy Heavenly Grace, that he may continue Thine for ever, and may daily increase in Thy Holy Spirit more and more &c.

Page 44. Almighty and Everliving GoD, Who makest us both to will and to do those things that be good and acceptable unto Thy Divine Majesty, We make our humble supplications unto Thee for these Thy servants, upon whom we, after the example of the Holy Apostles, have laid &c. Who with Thee and the HOLY GHOST liveth and reigneth ever one GOD, world without end. Amen.

Then the Bishop, they all still kneeling before him, shall bless them, and dismiss them, thus:

The Blessing of God Almighty, &c.

a Certificate, setting his own Name thereunto, of the Names of all those Children &c.

In the next Paragraph of that Rubrick :

And there shall none be admitted unto the Communion or unto Marriage, until such time as they can say the Catechism, and be known to have been confirmed.

In the next Rubrick, being for Marriage, thus :

The Banns shall first be published on three several Sundays or Holydays, by the Minister, at the same time when he is to declare what Holydays fall.

In the last Paragraph there, thus :

At the day appointed for the Solemnizing of Matrimony, as soon as the Litany is ended, and before they go to the Communion Service, the persons to be married shall come into the body of the Church &c.

Dearly Beloved, we are here come, in the sight of GOD, and in the face of His Church, to join together this &c.

Page 46. The first Rubrick, thus:

Then, speaking directly unto the Persons that stand before him to be married, he shall say,

Page 47. And so, either to give their Troth to other; the