t thou believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven
| and earth? And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord? And that he
| was conceived by the Holy Ghost; born of the Virgin Mary; that he
| suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried;
| that he descended into hell, and the third day did rise again from
| the dead; that he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right
| hand of God the Father Almighty; and from thence shall come to
| judge the quick and the dead?
|
| And dost thou believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic
| Church; the Communion of Saints; the Forgiveness of sins; the
| Resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting?
|
| _Answer_. I do.
|
| Dost thou promise that thou wilt endeavour to keep God's holy
| will and commandments, and to walk in the same all the days of thy
| life?
|
| _Answer_. I do.
|
| _The Bishop_.
|
| Our help is in the Name of the Lord;
|
| _Answer_. Who hath made heaven and earth.
|
| _Bishop_. Blessed be the Name of the Lord;
|
| _Answer_. Henceforth world without end.
|
| _Bishop_. Lord, hear our prayers.
|
| _Answer_. And let our cry come unto thee.
|
| _Bishop_.
|
| Let us pray.
|
| 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: Strengthen them, we
| beseech thee, O Lord, with the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and
| daily increase in them thy manifold 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 for ever.
| _Amen_.
|
| _Then all of them in order kneeling before the Bishop, he shall
| lay his hand upon the head of every one severally_.
|
| _The Bishop, when administering Confirmation, may at his
| discretion, with concurrence of the Clergyman, use the
| following form in addition to that prescribed in the Book
| of Common Prayer_:
|
| _N_. I sign thee with the sign of the cross [_here the Bishop
| shall sign the person with the sign of the cross on the
| forehead_] and I lay my hands [_or_ hand] upon thee, in the
| Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
|
| Defend, O Lord, this thy Child [_or_ this thy Servant] with thy
| heavenly grace, that _he_ may continue thine for ever; and daily
| increase in thy Holy Spirit, mo