| Willard Judd - Baptism - 1836 - 314 pages
...spiritual regeneration,' etc. After administering the ordinance he prays thus : ' We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church.' At the confirmation of the baptized, prayer is offered thus : ' Almighty and ever-living God, who hast... | |
| Frederick Meyrick - 1884 - 76 pages
...of children in houses is still more explicit. Thanks are given to God, as in the previous office, " That it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy holy Church;" and it is declared that "This child, being born in original CATECHISM. CONFIRMATION. COLLECTS. 9 sin,... | |
| Caroline Cameron Acland, C. C. G. - Church history - 1884 - 334 pages
...Cf. " Give Thy HOLY SPIRIT to this infant that he may be born again."1 " We yield Thee hearty thanks that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant with Thy HOLY SPIRIT."1 " Baptism a sign of regeneration or New Birth."4 II. We are united to Christ. a. By the indwelling... | |
| Arthur Wilde Little - 1885 - 298 pages
...grafted into the body of Christ's Church, let us give thanks," and then he prays: " We yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy holy Church." It is common in these days to hear some well-meaning Christian say, " O, I believe in Baptism, but... | |
| Frederic William MacDonald - Clergy - 1885 - 216 pages
...Fletcher would be disgustful almost in any other." O . . . Truly you are a pleasant casuist. What ! ' It hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant with...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy holy Church* — does all this signify nothing more than ' being taken into the visible Church ' ? " How came you... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1885 - 640 pages
...Minister shall give thanks unto God, and say, TTTE yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that W it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church. And we humbly beseech thee to grant, that as he is now made partaker of the death of thy Son, so he... | |
| Criticism - 1844 - 666 pages
...life according to this beginning ;" and then in the concluding prayer, say, " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased...thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit." " Understood in this sense !" Such language ought not, according to all the laws of language, to be... | |
| Philip Schaff - Christianity - 1885 - 324 pages
...larger scope than the Presbyterian Churches to the sacramentarian principle. i '' We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with the Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy... | |
| Episcopal Church. General Convention - 1886 - 350 pages
...Christ our Lord. Amen. The Prayer will then read as follows : — BA 275 S. В. 235 WE yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church. And we humbly beseech thee to grant, that as he is now made partaker of the death of thy Son, so he... | |
| Episcopal Church - Anglican Communion - 1886 - 520 pages
...all kneeling» baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness ; con\\/TE yield thee hearty thanks, ^* most merciful Father, that it hath pleased...to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit, to tinually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in ail virtue and godliness... | |
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