 | 1837 - 572 pages
...they 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...and to incorporate him into thy holy church." And in their Catechism, in answer to the question, " Who gave you this name ?" the child is taught to say,... | |
 | Gustavus Fellowes Davis - 1837 - 332 pages
...Thanksgiving : " 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...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church." Before confirmation, the baptized child is required to learn a catechism. The following question and... | |
 | William Clayton Clayton - 1838 - 72 pages
...office, " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy holy Spirit, to receive him,...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... | |
 | Plain tracts - 1838 - 256 pages
...language, — " 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...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church." From these passages we clearly perceive that a true dedication to God in baptism brings with it every... | |
 | John Dick - 1838 - 588 pages
...benefits." "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...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... | |
 | Thomas Mount Fallow - 1838 - 302 pages
...and 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...child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Church. And we humbly beseech thee to grant, that, as he is now made partaker of the death of thy Son,... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pages
...merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with thy holy Spirit, to receive Aim for thine own Child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church. And we humbly beseech thee to grant, that as he is now made partaker of the death of thy Son, so he may... | |
 | Richard Laurence - 1838 - 320 pages
...; ' 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 - 300 pages
...follows. " 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...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
...God — and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven," have some reference to those of "to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit — to receive him...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... | |
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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. 
