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...Regeneration as the gift of God in Baptism : for this is the language of the Church in the office : " We yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...Thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit." Regeneration therefore is the work of the Holy Spirit in Baptism : and neither the Scripture nor the...

...against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Then shall the Priest say, WE yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church. And we humbly beseech thee to grant, that Ae, being dead unto sin, and living unto righteousness, and being...

...think the established form gives too much encouragement for this conjecture ; only attend unto it. " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church." The same dreadful error is confirmed in the Catechism. " Who gave you this name? Answer. " My godfathers...

...into the body of Christ's Church," &c. And the thanksgiving, which immediately follows, begins thus, " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit." Unless therefore the expression " it hath pleased God to regenerate " is synonymous with the expression...

...departing from it ?' The The LORD'S PHAYER very properly follows here, after which comes a thanksgiving : ' We yield thee hearty thanks most merciful * Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate 1 this infant,' &c. What must be the emotions of the parental heart whilst the minister thus enumerates...

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...this child may lead the rest of his life according to this beginning." "Then shall the Priest say:— We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church." " It is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin,...

...And lead us not into temptation ; 200 But deliver us from evil. Amen. 1 Then shall the Priest say, WE yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...to regenerate this Infant with thy holy Spirit, to re^ ceive him for thine own Child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church. And humbly...