The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…

the first Lecture and every Month must publicly and openly declare his Assent to, and Approbation of the said Book, and to the use of all the Prayers, Rites and Ceremonies, Forms and Orders therein contained and prescribed. VI. By this all must Assent and Consent to this Article of Faith or Doctrine. [It is certain by the Word of God that Children which are Baptized, dying before they commit actual Sin, are undoubtedly saved.] Not excepting any, though the Children of Atheists, Infidels or Sadducees. VII. We must Assent and Consent, that at public Baptism, persons called Godfathers and Godmothers, who take not the Child for their own, do in the name of the Child Covenant with God, without the Parents, who are forbidden to be Godfathers or Godmothers, or to speak one word, nor must be urged to be present; nor may the Godfathers, &c. speak one word but what is written in the book. And they are there not only to promise for the future, but to profess in the Name of the Child at present [I renounce them all] (the Devil, World and Flesh) and [All this I steadfastly believe] and (to be baptized) [This is my desire] and for obedience [I will.] And these Godfathers also engage as their parts and Duty, to see that [this Infant be taught so soon as he shall be able to learn what a solemn Vow, Promise and Profession he there made by them: And that they call on him to hear Sermons, and chiefly that they provide that he may learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments in the vulgar Tongue, and all other things that a Christian ought to know and believe to his Soul's health, and that the Child may be virtuously brought up to lead a godly, and Christian life]. All this these three persons must promise as before God and the Church, but the Parent is not only excused from any such promise, but forbid it by the Canon. ⟨p. 19⟩VIII. We must Assent and Consent to refuse to baptize the Child of any godly Christian, who bringeth not his Child to be baptized with such undertaking Godfathers; either because he can get none that will seriously promise him to do what they must Vow to do, and so dare not draw them into sacrilegious perfidiousness, or because he thinks it his own part to enter his Child into God's Covenant, and thus to promise for its Education. IX.

the first Lecture and every Month must publickly and openly declare his Assent to, and Approbation of the said Book, and to the use of all the Prayers, Rites and Ceremonies, Forms and Orders therein contained and prescribed. VI. By this all must Assent and Consent to this Article of Faith or Doctrine. [It is certain by the Word of God that Children which are Baptized, dying before they commit actual Sin, are undoubtedly saved.] Not excepting any, though the Children of Atheists, Infidels or Sadducees. VII. We must Assent and Consent, that at publick Baptism, persons called Godfathers and Godmothers, who take not the Child for their own, do in the name of the Child Covenant with God, without the Parents, who are forbidden to be Godfathers or Godmothers, or to speak one word, nor must be urged to be present; nor may the Godfathers, &c. speak one word but what is written in the book. And they are there not only to promise for the future, but to profess in the Name of the Child at present [I renounce them all] (the Devil, World and Flesh) and [All this I stedfastly believe] and (to be baptized) [This is my desire] and for obedience [I will.] And these Godfathers also engage as their parts and Duty, to see that [this Infant be taught so soon as he shall be able to learn what a solemn Vow, Promise and Profession he there made by them: And that they call on him to hear Sermons, and chiefly that they provide that he may learn the Crede, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments in the vulgar Tongue, and all other things that a Christian ought to know and believe to his Soul's health, and that the Child may be vertuously brought up to lead a godly, and Christian life]. All this these three persons must promise as before God and the Church, but the Parent is not only excused from any such promise, but forbid it by the Canon.