To the Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions were added two new forms: one a prayer to be said before receiving the Communion, another a prayer for any time of calamity. Forty-two new Collects were composed; and in the administration of the Lord’s Supper, after the Ten Commandments, came the insertion of the Beatitudes, with this petition after each of them, “Lord, have mercy upon us, and make us partakers of this blessing.” Here, and throughout the whole Prayer-Book, for the title _priest_ is substituted that of _minister_. In the office for Baptism of Infants, the presentation of children for that purpose by godfathers and godmothers is acknowledged as an ancient custom to be continued; it is added, that if any person comes to the Minister, and tells him he cannot conveniently procure godfathers and godmothers for his child, and that he desires the child may be baptized upon the engagement of the parent or parents only, in that case the Minister, after discourse with him, if he persists, shall be obliged to baptize such child, or children, upon the suretiship of the parent, or parents, or some other near relation or friends. If any Minister objected at his institution to use the sign of the cross, the Bishop might dispense with that particular, and name a Curate to act for him. In reference to the doctrine of Regeneration, the form of Baptism remained the same as before. Large additions were made to the Catechism and to the Confirmation Service, the prayers after the last answer being considerably modified; and a new prayer and exhortation prepared for the confirmed, who were required to stay and listen to it. [Sidenote: 1689.] The “Solemnization of Matrimony,” with several verbal changes, remains substantially unaltered; but in “the Order for the Visitation of the Sick,” together with fresh interrogatories, there is this important change in the words of absolution: “Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to His Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him, of His great mercy, forgive thee thine offences; and upon thy true faith and repentance, by His authority committed to me, I pronounce thee absolved from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”