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Self-love, Malice, Hatred, or Revenge, or any other Evil whatsoever, to reign in my mortal Body; but do thou keep it for ever in the Purpose of my Heart, faithfully to fulfil thefe my Baptifmal Vows and Refolutions which I have now again renewed at thy holy Table; that by perfevering in all Virtue and Holiness of Life, I may at length be an Inheritor of that infinite Happiness and Glory, which thou haft promised by Christ our Lord. Amen.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Ponder my Words, O Lord, confider my Meditations: My Voice fhalt thou hear betimes, O Lord; carly in the Morning I will direct my Prayer unto thee, and will look up, Pfal. v. 1, 3. Almighty God, who dwelling in the highest Heavens, yet vouchtafeft to regard the loweft Creature here upon Earth, I humbly adore thy facred Majefty, and with all the Powers of my Soul and Body do exalt and praise thy holy Name, for all the Mercies and Comforts of this Life, and for the Hopes and Affurance of a better; for protecting me from the Evils and Dangers of the Night paft, and for bringing me fafe to the Light of a new Day; continue this thy Mercy and Goodnets to me, and as thou haft awakened my Body from Sleep, fo aife my Soul from the Death of Sin unto a Life of Righteoufnefs. Deliver me, O God, from the Evils of this Day, and guide my Feet in the Paths of Peace and Holiness, and strengthen my Refolutions to embrace all Opportunities of doing Good, and carefully to avoid all occafions of Evil, especially thofe fuch Sins a Sins which by Nature and Inclina ion I am most likely to fall into : you are mot And when through Frailty, or the Violence of any other Temptation, I afraid of, fail from my Duty, do thou in Mercy restore me again with á double Portion of thy Grace and holy Spirit, to maintain a more vigorous Defence against Satan and his Devices. Shower down thy Graces and Bleflings upon all my Relations, [on my Father and Mother, on my Brethren and Sifters] on all my Friends, and give thy holy Angels Charge over them, to protect them from all Sin and Danger. Make me diligent in the Duties of my Caliing, and that in all the Changes and Chances of this Life, I may abf lutely fubmit to thy divine Pro,vidence. Let thy Bleffings be upon my Actions, and let thy Wifdom direct my Intentions, that fo the whole Courte of my Life, and the principal Defigns of my Heart, may be ordered by thy Governance to do always that is righteous in thy Sight, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

See Pfalm iv. xvi. xvii. xxiii. lxxxvi.

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miffions of Sin this Day, wherewith I have fo lately offended thine particular Sins infinite Majefty and Goodnefs, and fo grievously wounded my own and Failings Soul: Of thefe and all other my Tranfgreffions I moft earnestly repent, and am heartily torry for thefe my Mildoings; the Remembrance of them is grievous unto me, the Burden of them is intolerable: have Mercy upon me, moft merciful Father; for thy Son Jefus Chrift's fake forgive me all that is paft, and accept of thefe my Prayers and Supplications, through the Merits and Me. diation of the fame our Mediator and redeemer. And although I am unworthy, through my manifold Sins and Iniquities, to offer unto thee any Sacrifice of Praife and Thanksgiving, yet I beseech thee to accept of this my bounden Duty, with my un+ Here name feigned thanks for all thy Goodnefs and loving-kindness to me and to all Bleffings and mankind, † purely proceeding from thy Bounty, and wholly intended Mercies. for my good, and particularly for preferving me this Day in the midft of fo many Dangers incident to my Condition, and from fo many Calamities as are due to my Sins. Thou art my Creator, O my God, and Protector; thou art the ultimate End of my Being, and fupreme Perfection of my Nature; under the Shadow of thy Wings is perpetual Repole, and from the Light of thy Countenance flows eternal Joy and Felicity; to whom be Glory and Honour, World without End.

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And thou, O Lord, by whom Kings reign, and Princes decree Juftice, bles our most gracious Sovereign Lord King GEORGE, our gracious Queen CHARLOTTE, her Royal Highness the Princefs Dowager of WALES, and all the Royal Family: All my Relations, Friends, and kind Benefactors. * let thy Providence fuccour them and theirs from all Evil and Danger, and do thou reward particular them feven fold into their boom for all the go d they have done or faid Perfins. of me. Be pleased likewife, O Lord, (in whofe Hands are the Iffues of Life and Death) to fuccour, help and comfort all that are in Danger, Neceffity and Tribulation, all that labour under any bodily Pain, Sicknefs, or Tempta + Efpecially thofe for whom tion + or are difturbed in Mind; relieve iuch according to their feveral our Prayers are Neceffities, giving them Patience under their Sufferings, and a happy defired. Iffue out of all their Afflictions. Subdue in me the evil spirit of Wrath and Revenge, and difpofe my Heart patiently to bear Reproaches and Wrongs and to be ready not only to forgive, but also to do Good for Evil, that all Men may know that I am Chrift's Difciple. And finally, O Lord, fince thou haft ordained the Day to labour in, and the Night to take our Reft, as I praife thee for the Mercies of the Day, fo1 humbly beg the Continuance of thy gracious Protection over me this Night. Let thy holy Angels pitch their Tents about my Bed, that being fafely delivered from all Perils and Dangers of this Night, and comfortably retreth ed with moderate Sleep, I may be enabled to difcharge the Duties of my Calling, and faithfully to perfevere in Holinefs and Pureness of Living all the Days of my Life to thy Honour and Glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Grant that he may have power and ftrength to have victory, and to triumph against the devil, the world and the flesh. Amer.

Grant that whofoever is here dedicated to thee by our Office and Ministry, may also be endued with heavenly virtues, and everlaftingly rewarded, through thy mercy, O blessed Lord God, who doft live and govern all things, world without end.

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LMIGHTY and everliving God whofe most dearly beloved Son Jefus Chrift, for the forgivnefs of our

Afins, did fhed out of his precious fide both water and blood, and gave commandment to his difciples, that

they fhould go teach all nations, and baptize them, In the Name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft; regard we beseech thee, the fupplications of thy Congregation; fanctify this Water to the mystical washing away of fin: and grant that this child now to be baptized therein, may receive the fulness of thy grace, and ever remain in the number of thy faithful and elect children, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then the Prieft fhall take the Child into his hands, and full fay to the Godfathers and Godmothers. Name this Child.

And then naming it after them (if they fhall certify him that the Child may well endure it) he shall dip it in the water difcreetly and warily, faying,

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I baptize thee, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Amen.

But if they certify that the Child is weak, it full fuffice to pour water upon it, faying the aforefaid words.
I baptize thee, In the Name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Amen.
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the congregation of Christ's flock, and co figa him with the fign of the Crofs in token after tha he fhall not be afhamed to confefs the faith of Chrift crucified, and manfully to fight here under his banner, against fin, the world, and the devil; and to continue Christ's faithful foldier and fervant unto his Then all the Priest jay.

EEING now, dearly beloved brethren, that this Child is regenerate, and grafted into the body of Christ's Church, let us give thanks unto Almighty God for thefe benefits, and with one accord make our prayers unto him, that this Child may lead the rest of his life according to this beginning.

Then fhall be faid all kneeling.

UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Then fhall the Prieft Jay,

WE E yield thee hearty thanks, muft merciful Father, that it hath pleafed thee to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own Child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy hely Church. And humbly we beseech thee to grant, that he being dead unto fin, and living unto righ. teousness, and being buried with Chrift in his death, may crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of fin, and that as he is made partaker of the death of thy Son, he may alfo be partaker of his refurrection; fo that finally with the refidue of thy holy Church, he may be an inheritor of thine everlafting kingdom, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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Then all fanding up, the Priest fhall fay to the Godfathers and Godmothers this Exhortation following. ORASMUČH as this Child hath promised by you his fureties, to renounce the devil and all his works, to believe in God and ferve him, ye muft remember that it is your parts and duties to fee that this Infant be taught, fo foon as he fhall be able to learn, what a folemn vou, promife, and profeffion he hath here made by And that he may know thefe things the better, ye fhall call upon him to hear Sermons, and chiefly ye thall provide that he may learn the Creed, the Lords Prayer, and the Ten Commandments in the vulgar Tongue, and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his fouls health; and that this Child may be virtuously brought up to lead a godly and a Chriftian life; remembering always, that Baptifm doth reprefent unto us our profeflion which is to follow the example of our Saviour Chrift, and to be made like unto him; that as he died, and ofe again for us; fo fhould we, who are baptized, die from fin, and rife again unto righteoufnefs, continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.

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E are to take care that this Child be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed by him, fo foon as he can fiy the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and further be inftructed in the Church Catechifm fet forth for that purpose.

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is certain by God's Word, that Children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual fin are undoubtedly faved.

To take away all fcruple concerning the ufe of the Sign of the Crofs inBaptifm; the true Explication thereof, and the just reafons for the retainingof it, may be feen in the xxxth Canon first published in the year MDCIV,

* The Ministration of private B`APTISM of Children in Houses.

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HE Curates of every Parish hall often admonish the People that they defer not the Baptifm of their Children longer than the first or second Sunday next after their Birth, or other Holy-day falling between unless upon a great and reasonable cauft, to be approved by the Curate.

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And alfo they all warn them, that without like great cause and neceffity they procure not their Children to be B ptized at home in their baufes. But when need fhall compel them fo But when need fhall compel them so to do, then Baptifm jhall be adminiftered on this fashion : First, let the Minister of the Parish for in his abfence, any other lawful Minifler that can be procured) with them that are prefent, call upon God, and fay the Lords Prayer, and fo many of the Collects appointed to be faid before in the Form of Public Baptifm, as the time and prefent exigence will fuffer. And then, the Child being named by fome one that is prefent, the Minister shall pour water upon it, jaying these words :

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I baptize thee, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Gholt. Amen.

Then all kneeling down, the Minister fhall give thanks unto God and fry.

E yield thee hearty thanks, moit merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with

holy Church. And we humbly beseech thee to grant, that as he is now made partaker of the death of thy Son, fo he may be alfo of his refurrection; and that finally, with the refidue of thy Saints, he may inherit thine everlasting kingdom, through the Tame thy. Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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And let them not doubt, but that the Child fo haptized, is lawfully and fufficiently baptized, and ought not to be baptized again. Yet nevertheless, if the Child, which is after this fort baptized, do afterward live, it is expedient that it be brought into the church, to the intent that if the Minifler of the jame Parish did himself baptize that Child, the Cen gregation may be certified of the true Form of Baptifm, by him privately before ufed: In which cafe be fall fay thus, Certify you, that according to the due and prefcribed Order of the Church, at fuch a time, and at such a place, before divers witneffes I baptized this Child.

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But if the Child were baptized by any other lawful Minifter; then the Minifter of the Pari where the Child was bon or chriftened, hall examine and try whether the Child be lawfully baptized or no. In which cafe, if thoseakt bring any Child to the church, do answer that the fame Child is already baptized, then ball the Minister examine them further Jaying.

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Who was prefent when this Child was baptized?

Becaufe fome things effential to this Sacrament may happen to be omitted through fear or hafte, in fuch times of extremity; therefore I demand further of you,

With what matter was this Child baptized?"

With what words was this Child baptized ?

And if the Minifter fhall find by the anfwers of fuch as bring the Child, that all things were done as they ought to be; then fhall not be chriften the Child again but fall receive him as one of the Flock of true chriftian People, faying

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Certify you, that in this cafe all is well done, and according unto due order, concerning the baptizing of this Child; who being born in original fin, and in the wrath of God, is now by the laver of Regenera tion in Baptifm, received into the number of the children of God, and heirs of eve.lafting life: for our Lord Jefus Chrift doth not deny his grace and mercy unto fuch Infants, but most lovingly doth call them unto him as the holy Gofpel doth witness to our comfort on this wife:

'The Gospel S. Mark 10. 13.

HEY brought young children to Chrift, that he should touch them and his difciples rebuked those that dren to come unto me, and forbid them not : for of fuch is the kingdom of God. Verily I fay unto you, Whofoever fhall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and bleffed them

Our Church has in this Office provided against the attacks of fickness, or any preffing neceffity of this nature, which may happen before the Child can receive public Bap tifin, that it may receive the vifible Seal of Admiffion into Covenant with God before it leaves the world. Yet let no 1. i.

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Chriftian Parents be under concern if their Child should die without it; provided it is not owing to their own negligence or impiety. For there is no doubt but that he who faid "Suffer the little Children to come unto me, and fo bid them not," will graciously and mercifully receive it.

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of Infants, to be ufed in the Church..

THE People are to be admonished, that it is most convenient that Baptifm fhould not be administered but upon Sundays, and other Holy-days, when the most number of People come together: as well for that the Congregation there prefent may ify the receiving of them that be newly baptized into the number of Chrifts Church; as also because in the Baptifm of Infants, every man prefent may be put in remembrance of his own profeffion made to God in bis Baptifm. For which caufe also it is expedient that Baptifm he ministered in the Vulgar Torgue. Nevertheless (if neceffity fo require) Children may be baptized upon any other day.

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And note, That there shall be for every Male-Child to be baptized, two Godfathers and one Godmother: and for every Fema e, one Godfather and two Godmothers.

When there are children to be baptized, the Parents fhall give knowledge thereof over Night, or in the Morning before the beginning of Morning Prayer, to the Curate. And then the Godfathers and Godmothers, and the People with the Children, must be ready at the Font, either immediately after the last Leffon at Morning Prayer, or elfe immediately after the laft Leffon at Evening Prayer, as the Curate by his difcretion fhall appoint. And the Priest coming to the Font (which is then to be filed with pure Water) and standing there, shall, jay,

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EARLY beloved, forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in fin, and that our Saviour Chrift

Dfath, None can enter into the kingdom of God except he be regenerate and born anew of Water and of

the Holy Gholt; I beseech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, that of his bounteous mercy he will grant to this Child that thing which by nature he cannot have, that he may be baptized with Water and the Holy Ghoft, and received into Chrifts holy Church, and be made à lively member of the fame.

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LMIGHTY and everlasting God, who of thy great mercy didft fave Noah and his family in the ark figuring thereby thy holy Baptifm; and by the Baptifm of thy well beloved Son Jefus Chrift, in the river Jordan, didit fanctity Water to the myftical washing away of fin; We befeech thee for thine infinite mercies, that thou wilt mercifully look upon this Child; wath him and fanctify him with the Holy Ghoft; that he being delivered from thy wrath, may be received into the ark of Chrifts Church; and being stedfaft in faith, joyful through hope, and rooted in charity, may fo pafs the waves of this troublesome world, that finally be may come to the land of everlasting life; there to reign with thee world without end, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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LMIGHTY and immortal God, the aid of all that need, the helper of all that flee to thee for fuccour, the life of them that believe, and the refurrection of the dead; We call upon thee for this Infant, that be coming to thy holy Baptifm, may receive remiffion of his fins by fpiritual regeneration. Receive bim, O Lord, as thou haft promifed by thy well-beloved Son, faying, Afk, and ye fhall have; feek, and ye fhall find; knock, and it thall be opened unto you: So give now unto us that afk; let us that feek, find; open the gate unto us that knock; that this Infant may enjoy the everlasting benediction of thy heavenly washing, and may come to the eternal kingdom which thou has promiled by Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then fball the People ftand up, and the Prieft fall fay.

Hear the words of the Gofpel written by Saint Mark in the tenth Chapter, at the thi teenth Verfe. HEY brought young children to Chrift, that he fhould touch them; and his difciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jefus faw it, he was much difpleafed, and faid unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not for of fuch is the kingdom of God. Verily I fay unto you, Whofoever fhall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them and beffed them.

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