...child, the minister is to repeat the following thanksgiving : — We yield Thee hearty thanks .... that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy holy Church. In The Ministration of Private Baptism of Children, the minister is instructed to say to the people...

...same'; to pray that he 'may be received into the ark of Christ's Church'; and after the Baptism to say, 'We yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy holy Church.' The Offices for the Private Baptism of Children and the Baptism of Adults contain similar teaching....

...ihe\ "may be born again, and be made an heir of everlasting salvation." And after the baptism we read: "We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church.*1 And similar language occurs in the two Baptismal Offices following in the English Prayer...

..."may be born again, and be made an heir of everlasting salvation. " And after the baptism we read: "We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spiri:. to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church."...

...body of Christ's Church," etc. A little further on he is to say, "We yield Thee hearty thanks .... that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy Holy Church." Then follows a prayer that being thus "living unto righteousness," he "may crucify the old man, and...

...following words occur : — "Seeing now, dearly beloved brethren, that this Child is regenerate, . . . " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with thy holy Spirit."8 (3.) BY BAPTISM WE ARE GRAFTED INTO THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST. whereby, as by an instrument,...

...allude is contained in the prayer used immediately after the Baptism of infants; in these words. — "We yield Thee hearty thanks Most merciful Father,...that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant by thy holy spirit," — As I understand our Church generally to teach that regeneration by Baptism,...

...Anglican Church in her baptismal aervice gives hearty thanks to God over every infant, thanking God "that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant with Thy Holy Spirit." The Church does not hold that- this gift is confined to a predestined few, or is dependent on the faith...

...brethren, that this child is regenerate and grafted into the body of Christ's Church, let us give tkanks unto Almighty God for these benefits." ' 'We yield...thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit." The Presbyterian view is less immoderate. The Westminster Confession, Art. 28, says: "Baptism is a...

...favour; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. "We yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this child with Thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for Thine own by adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy...