A26853:189
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Questions.
Doest thou forsake, &c.
Doest thou believe, &c.
Wilt thou be Baptized, &c.
We know not by what right the Sureties do promise and answer in the name of the Infant: It seemeth to us also to countenance the Anabaptistical Opinion of the necessity of an actual profession of Faith and Repentance in Order to Baptism. That such a profession ⟨p. 22⟩may be required of Parents in their own name, and now solemnly renewed when they present their Children to Baptism, We willingly grant: but the asking of one for another is a practice whose warrant we doubt of; and therefore We desire that the two first Interrogatories may be put to the Parents to be answered in their own names, and the last propounded to the Parents or pro-Parents thus, Will you have this Child Baptized into this Faith?