Blair Collection > Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

FOIRM AN
na nuile chumhacht, claud ochta dho
fein dinn, agas ni he fin amhain, acht
tareis ar ngabhala agcumand a Eaglu-
ife, do gheallfe dhufn maille ris fin, go
mbeith fe fèin in a Dhia dhufnn, agas
dar gcloind go nuige an mile ce'im, &
mar do dhearbh fe fin, di pobal fein fa
tfemtiomna, le facramnint an ghear-
raidh thimchill. Is marfin, do athnu-
adhaidh fè an ni cedna dhufnne fa thi
umna nuaidh, le - Sacramuint an bhaif-
didh, da chur agceill duinn leis an tfa-
cramuintfin, gurab leis ar gcland bhe-
ag, agas vime fin nach coir agcur ar
gcul, ona comhtharraibh naomhtha, &
ona fe'laibh flanaighthe, re naithneoc-
har a chland f^in, feach lucht droch
chreidimh, no paghanachaibh, agas ni
ricthear aleas tuigfe, agas creideamh
do bheith ag gach aon duine ghabhas
an Tfacramuintfe, ach ambeith fa ainm
pobail De. Iondas goma leo maithe-
amh apeacthaid tre' dhortadh fhola Io-
fa Criofd, do reir gheallaidh Dhe vile
chumhachtaidh, an ni atà" follas do reir
Foil,
hath not onely made us his children by adoption, and received us
into the fellowship of his Churche ; but also hath promised that he
wilbe our God, and the God of our children, unto the thousand
generation. Whych thinge, as he confirmed to his people of the
Olde Testament by the sacrament of Circumcision, so hath he also
renewed the same to us in his New Testament by the sacrament of
Baptisme ; doing us therby to wyt, that our infantes apperteyne to
him by covenaunt, and therfore oght not to be defrauded of those
holy signes and badges wherby his children are knowen from
Infidells and Pagans.
Neither is it requisite, that all those that receyve this Sacramente
have the use of understanding and faythe ; but chiefelye that they
be conteyned under the name of God's people : .So that remission of
synnes in the bloode of Christ Jesus, doth appertaine to them by
God's promise. Which thing is most evident by Sainct Paul,
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