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The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by His M… › CONFIRMATION. › Reply
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.
Repl. It is like to be your own work as you will use it, and we cannot hinder you from doing it in your own way. But are Godfathers no more than witnesses? &c.
[This supposeth that all children, &c.] It supposeth, and that truly, that all children were at their Baptism, regenerate by Water, and the Holy Ghost, and had given unto them the forgiveness of all their Sins; and it is charitably presumed, that, notwithstanding the frailties and slips of their Childhood, they have not totally lost, what was in Baptism conferred upon them, and therefore adds, Strengthen them we beseech thee, O Lord, with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, and daily increase in them their manifold gifts of Grace, &c. None that lives in open sin ought to be Confirmed.]
[This supposeth that all children, &c.] It supposeth, and that truly, that all children were at their Baptism, regenerate by Water, and the Holy Ghost, and had given unto them the forgivenesse of all their Sins; and it is charitably presumed, that, notwithstanding the frailties and slips of their Childhood, they have not totally lost, what was in Baptism conferred upon them, and therefore addes, Strengthen them we beseech thee, O Lord, with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, and daily encrease in them their manifold gifts of Grace, &c. None that lives in open sin ought to be Confirmed.]
Repl. 1. Children baptized without right, cannot be presumed to be really regenerate, and pardoned. 2. We speak only of those that by living in open sin, do show themselves to be unjustified; and these you confess should not be Confirmed. O that you would but practise that; If not, this Confession will witness against you.