A26965:437
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
12. The Minister Covenanting [to use the form in the Book of Common Prayer prescribed in administration of the Sacraments, and no other] Can. 36. No Parent may speak a word in the name of his own Child, nor to enter him there into the Covenant of God, nor profess that he offereth him to Baptism by virtue of, and in confidence in the promise [I will be thy God, and the God of thy seed in their Generations;] Nor to promise himself what the Godfathers are to promise: The words also of the Can. 29. are these; [No Parent shall be urged to be PRESENT, nor be admitted to answer as Godfather for his own Child: Nor any Godfather or Godmother shall be suffered to make any other answer or speech than by the Book of Common Prayer is prescribed in that behalf.
13. It is the Godfathers work also (by the Liturgy) to take care that the Child be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed by him (in the manner of the Church of England) as soon as he can say the Creed, Lords Prayer, and ten Commandments, and be further instructed in the Church Catechism; which Godfathers use not ⟨p. 148⟩at all to perform; nor do the Parents use to expect it: Nor doth one Child of a multitude understand what the Baptismal Covenant is, of many a year after they have learned to say the said Catechism.
14. That the Godfathers stand not there as the Representers of the Parents is evident (according to the sense of the Church) because the Parent himself is not suffered to do it, or speak one covenanting word; nor must be urged to be present; nor are they to speak in the Parents name in any of their undertakings; Nor is there the least intimation that the Church taketh the Sponsor for the Parents Representative.