race.
Q. _What is required of Persons to be baptised_?
_A_. Repentance, whereby they forsake Sin; and Faith, whereby they
stedfastly believe the Promises of God, made to them in that
Sacrament.
Q. _Why then are Infants baptised, when, by Reason of their tender
Age, they cannot perform them_?
_A_. Because they promise them both by their Sureties; which
Promise, when they come to Age, themselves are bound to perform.
Q. _Why was the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ordained_?
_A_. For the continual Remembrance of the Sacrifice of the Death
of Christ, and of the Benefits which we receive thereby.
Q. _What is the outward Part or Sign of the Lord's Supper_?
_A_. Bread and Wine, which the Lord hath commanded to be received.
Q. _What is the inward Part or Thing signified_?
_A_. The Body and Blood of Christ, which are verily and indeed
taken and received by the Faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Q. _What are the Benefits whereof we are Partakers thereby_?
_A_. The strengthening and refreshing of our Souls by the Body and
Blood of Christ, as our Bodies are by the Bread and Wine.
Q. _What is required of them who come to the Lord's Supper_?
_A_. To examine themselves, whether they repent them truly of their
former Sins, stedfastly purposing to lead a new Life; have a lively
Faith in God's Mercy through Christ, with a thankful Remembrance of
his Death and be in Charity with all Men.
PRAYERS _used in the_ ACADEMY _of the_ PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, _in Philadelphia_.
LET US PRAY.
_Lord have Mercy upon us_.
Our Father, which art in Heaven; Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom
come. Thy Will be done in 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. AMEN.
O Lord, our Heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting God, who hast
safely brought us to the Beginning of this Day; defend us in the
same with thy mighty Power, and grant that this Day we fall into no
Sin, neither run into any Kind of Danger; but that all our Doings
may be ordered by thy Governance, to do always what is righteous in
thy Sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.
_But at Evening Prayer, instead of the foregoing Collect, the
following is to be used_.
Lighten our Darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord, and by thy great
Mercy defend us from all Perils and Dangers of this Night, for t
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