...also that they live a Christian life, from the prayer in confirmation, adjoined, which is this ; ' Almighty and Everlasting God, who hast vouchsafed...regenerate these thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins ; strengthen them, we beseech thee O Lord with...

...of thy grace." It ought not to be so with those who pray at confirmation, "Almighty and ever-living God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins; strengthen them, we beseech thee, O Lord, with...

...any authority whatever, be addressed by the Bishop in the following words, " Almighty and ever-living God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and has! given unto them forgiveness of all their sins; strengthen them, we beseech thee, O Lord, with...

...vows, which some think too solemn for any to utter, she proceeds to pronounce the following prayer: " Almighty and everlasting God, who hast vouchsafed...regenerate these thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins; strengthen them, we beseech Thee, O Lord, with...

...and creatures of bread and wine" — " Sanctify this water to the mystical washing away of sin" — " Who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins" — are petitions which we cannot understand...

...hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant by thy Holy Spirit.' At confirmation the biilwp shall say, 'Almighty and everlasting God, who hast vouchsafed...regenerate these thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, .and hast given unto them the forgiveness of all their sins ; ' — and in the •catechism the child...

...hearts that is uttered by the Bishop, in reference to all these candidates : " Almighty and everliving God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins" &c. To a man who does not believe in the unscriptural...

...made in the first prayer, to the baptism of those who are about to be confirmed, in these words. ' Almighty and everlasting God, who hast vouchsafed...regenerate these thy servants, by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given them forgiveness of all their sins, strengthen them, we beseech thee O Lord, with the...

...Spirit's actual interposition. The following is the bishop's prayer, in the office of confirmation: " Almighty and everlasting God, who hast vouchsafed...regenerate these thy servants, by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins; strengthen them, we beseech thee, O Lord, with...

...Spirit's actual interposition. The following is the bishop's prayer, in the office of confirmation : " Almighty and everlasting God, who hast vouchsafed...regenerate these thy servants, by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins ; strengthen them, we beseech thee, O Lord,...