| Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 948 pages
...their tender age they can not perform them ? Ans. Because they promise them both by their Sureties;8 which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. Ques. Why was the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ordained ? Ans. For the continual remembrance of the... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? Ans. Because they promise them both by their sureties; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. Quest. Why was the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ordained? Ans. For the continual remembrance of the... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? A. Because they promise them both by their sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. Q. Why was the sacrament of the Lord's Supper ordained ? A. For the continual remembrance of the sacrifice... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - Religious education - 1812 - 402 pages
...by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? Answer. — Because they promise them both by their sureties — which promise when they come to age themselves are bound to perform. Explanation.— When, our Lord Jesus Christ was upon earth, he shewed great kindness to infants, and... | |
| Missions - 1816 - 596 pages
....-' and this he says is done -' because the iafant* promise them both (that is, repentance and faith) by their sureties, which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.'' 'It is on this ground,' he adds, ' and in the expecation of its performance, that the Church admits... | |
| Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them? Answer. Because they promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. Question. Why was the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ordained ? Answer. For the continual remembrance... | |
| Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...baptized, when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them ? A. Because they promise them both by their sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. Q. Why was the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ordained ? A. For the continual remembrance of the sacrifice... | |
| Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...in the catechism. Why then are children baptised ? is thus amended, because they promise them both by their sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. 12. In the last rubric before the catechism these words are expunged, And that no man shall think that... | |
| Richard Warner - 1816 - 422 pages
...inability ; for " they promise" all this, " by their sureties," their godfathers and godmothers, " which promise, when they " come to age, themselves are bound to " perform." Hence you perceive, my brethren, not only the obligation which the sacrament of baptism lays upon those... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - Catechetics - 1818 - 814 pages
...reason of their tender age, they cannot perform them ? Anstver. — Because they promise them both by their sureties: which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. OBSERVATIONS. [Perform them ?~] — Perform what ? — Here may be seen a cloud of obscurity and ambiguity,... | |
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