Q. What is your duty towards God?

4. My duty towards God is, to believe in him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength; to worship him; to give him thanks; to put my whole trust in him; to call upon him; to honor his holy Name and his word; and to serve him truly all the days of my life.

Q. What is your duty towards your neighbor?

4. My duty towards my neighbor is to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me.

Q. How will you be able to keep these laws?

A. By diligent attention and watchfulness not to do anything which is forbidden; and by prayer to God to help my weakness.

Q. Can you repeat the Lord's Prayer?

A. Yes. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

Q. What do you learn in this prayer?

4. That God is to be adored and loved as my heavenly Father; that all things necessary for my life and comfort are his gift; that he will be merciful unto me, and forgive my sins; that he is able to save and defend me in all danger both of soul and body.

Q. How many sacraments are there in the Church?

A. Two: Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Q. What means the word Sacrament?

4. An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. Q. What is the outward sign in baptism?

A. Water, which is either used by dipping the person in it, or pouring or sprinkling it upon him; and the Minister at the same time saying, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Q. What inward grace does this outward sign represent?

A. A death unto sin, and a new spiritual birth unto righteousness. Q. What is required of persons to be baptized?

4. Repentance of all their sins, and faith in Christ as their Saviour. Q. Why then are infants baptized?

A. That their parents may bind themselves to train them up to a Christian life, and as children of God.

Q. For what was the ordinance of the Lord's Supper ordained? A. To be a continual remembrance of him; of all he did and said; of his sufferings, his death, his resurrection; and of all the benefits which the world enjoys in the completion of his mission on earth. Q. What are the outward signs of this ordinance?

A. Bread and wine.

Q. What is the signification of these elements?

A. They are to represent the body and blood of Christ; and while

we eat of them, we are in holy remembrance to feed upon the bread of life which he gives to the world.

Q. What ought all to do before coming to this supper?

A. They ought seriously to examine themselves; to repent of their sins and steadfastly to purpose to lead a new life; to have a lively faith in God's mercy through Christ, with a thankful remembrance of his death; and to be in charity with all men.

Q. What do you understand the Church of Christ to be?

A. The fellowship or society of all Christians, visible or invisible. Q. What is the visible Church, and what is the invisible?

A. The visible Church consists of all who profess the name of Christ; and the invisible Church consists of all who are at heart children of God, even the blessed company of all faithful people, having the fellowship of the Spirit.

THE ORDER OF CONFIRMATION.

Upon the day appointed, all that are to be then confirmed, being placed and standing in order before the Minister, he shall read this preface following:

Do ye here, in the presence of God, and of this congregation, renew

the solemn promise and vow that ye made, or that was made in your name, at your baptism; ratifying and confirming the same; and acknowledging yourselves bound to believe and to do all those things which ye then undertook, or your sponsors then undertook for you? ¶ And every one shall audibly answer:

I do.

Minister.

UR help is in the name of the Lord;

Answer. Who hath made heaven and earth. Minister. Blessed be the name of the Lord;

Answer. Henceforth, world without end.

Minister. Lord, hear our prayer;

Answer. And let our cry come unto thee.

Minister. Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY and ever living God; strengthen these thy servants, we

beseech thee, with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, and daily in

crease in them thy manifeld gifts of grace; the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength, the spirit of knowledge and true godliness; and fill them, O Lord, with the spirit of thy holy fear, now and forever. Amen.

¶ Then all of them in order before the Minister, he shall lay his hands upon the head of every one severally saying:

DEFEND, O Lord, this thy Child [or this thy Servant] with thy

heavenly grace; that he may continue thine forever; and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more, until he come unto thy everlasting kingdom. Amen.

T Then shall the Minister say:

The Lord be with you;

Answer. And with thy spirit.

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¶ And all kneeling down, the Minister shall add:

Let us pray.

UR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.

And these Collects.

ALMIGHTY and ever living God, who makest us both to will and to

do those things which are good, and acceptable unto thy Divine Majesty; we make our humble supplications unto thee for these thy servants, upon whom, after the example of thy holy Apostles, we have now laid our hands, to certify them, by this sign, of thy favor and gracious goodness towards them. Let thy Fatherly hand, we beseech thee, ever be over them; let thy Holy Spirit ever be with them; and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word, that they may obtain everlasting life; through our Lord Jesus Christ, world without end. Amen.

ALMIGHTY Lord, and everlasting God, vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies, in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments; that through thy most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

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¶ Then the Minister shall bless them, saying thus :

HE blessing of God Almighty, of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost be upon you, and remain with you forever. Amen.

THE FORM OF

SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.

¶ The laws respecting matrimony, whether by publishing the Bans in churches, or by license, being different in the several States, every Minister is left to the direction of those laws, in everything that regards the civil contract between the Persons.

¶ At the day and time appointed for Solemnization of Matrimony, the persons to be married shall come into the body of the church, or shall be ready in some proper house, with their friends and neighbors; and there standing together, the man on the right hand, and the woman on the left, the Minister shall say:

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EARLY beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this company, to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony; which is commended of Saint Paul to be honorable among all men; and therefore is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God. Into this holy estate, these two persons present come now to be joined. If any man can show just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.

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And also speaking unto the persons who are to be married, he shall say:

REQUIRE and charge you both that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.

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The Minister, if no impediment shall be alleged, or suspected, shall say to the man:

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VILT thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance, in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?

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I will.

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The Man shall answer:

Then shall the Minister say unto the woman:

thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance, in the holy estate of mat.

rimony? Wilt thou love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?

The woman shall answer:

I will.

T Then shall the Minister say

Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?

T Then shall they give their troth to each other in this manner :

¶ The Minister receiving the woman at her father's or friend's hands, shall cause the man with his right hand to take the woman by her right hand, and to say after him as followeth

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M. take thee N. to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

¶ Then shall they loose their hands, and the woman with her right hand taking the man by his right hand shall likewise say after the Minister:

N. take thee M. to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.

T Then shall they again loose their hands; and the man shall give unto the woman a ring. And the Minister, taking the ring, shall deliver it unto the man, to put it upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand.

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ITH this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Then the man, leaving the ring upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand, the Minister shall say:

Let us pray.

OUR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy king

dom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.

ETERNAL God, Creator and Preserver of all mankind, giver of all spiritual grace, the author of everlasting life; send thy bless