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

[We desire that the entering of Infants, &c.] The effect of children's Baptism depends neither upon their own present actual Faith and Repentance, which the Catechism saith expressly they cannot perform; nor upon the Faith and Repentance of their natural Parents, or Pro-parents, or of their Godfathers or Godmothers, but upon the Ordinance & Institution of Christ; but it is requisite that when they come to age they should perform these conditions of faith and repentance, for which also their Godfathers & Godmothers charitably undertook on their behalf. And what they do for the Infant in this case, the Infant himself is truly said to do, as in the Courts of this Kingdom daily the Infant does answer by his Guardian; and it is usual to do homage by proxy, and for Princes to marry by proxy; for the further justification of this answer, see St. Aug. Ep. •1. ad Bonif. Nihil aliud credere quam fidem habere ac per hoc cum respondetur parvulum credere qui fidei nondum habet effectum, respondetur fidem habere propter fidei Sacramentum & convertere se ad Deum, propter Conversionis Sacramentum quia & ipsa responsio, ad celebrationem pertinet Sacramenti itaque parvulum, & si nondum fides illa, que in credentium voluntate consister, tamen ipsius fidei Sacramentum

[We desire that the entring of Infants, &c.] The effect of childrens Baptism depends neither upon their own present actual Faith and Repentance, which the Catechism saith expresly they cannot perform; nor upon the Faith and Repentance of their natural Parents, or Pro-parents, or of their Godfathers or Godmothers, but upon the Ordinance & Institution of Christ; but it is requisite that when they come to age they should perform these conditions of faith and repentance, for which also their Godfathers & Godmothers charitably undertook on their behalf. And what they do for the Infant in this case, the Infant himself is truly said to do, as in the Courts of this Kingdom daily the Infant does answer by his Guardian; and it is usual to do homage by proxy, and for Princes to marry by proxy; for the further justification of this answer, see St. Aug. Ep. •1. ad Bonif. Nihil aliud credere quam fidem habere ac per hoc cum respondetur parvulum credere qui fidei nondum habet effectum, respondetur fidem habere propter fidei Sacramentum & convertere se ad Deum, propter Conversionis Sacramentum quia & ipsa responsio, ad celebrationem pertinet Sacramenti itaque parvulum, & si nondum fides illa, que in credentium voluntate consister, tamen ipsius fidei Sacramentum