And now with regard to the doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration. I am really at a loss to conceive how any Member of the Established Religion, who candidly and without mental reservation subscribes to the Articles of our Church, can entertain any doubt upon it; and more particularly when the Offices for Baptism and Confirmation are so clearly, so absolutely, and so decidedly worded. That Regeneration at Baptism is the positive doctrine of the English Church, I cannot suppose will be denied. All those of our present bishops, who have alluded to it in their Charges, have distinctly declared and admitted this to be the case, as laid down in the twenty-seventh Article. Now the Regius-Professor of Divinity at Oxford (himself an opposer of the Authors of the _Tracts for the Times_), thus speaks:—“No subscription to the Articles can be honest and true, which falls short of an assent to the Doctrines contained in them, or which is made with any reservation. They are expressly set forth for the avoiding of diversities of opinions, and establishing true consent in religion.” At your ordination “The Articles are proposed to you, as giving the right sense of Scripture; and you are supposed, when you subscribe to them, to have accepted them as such. No qualification, therefore, no restriction is to be admitted, in the act of subscription to the Articles, however drawn from pious considerations of what is due to Scripture. They must then be interpreted by themselves, by the phraseology of the Church, and a knowledge of its intention in drawing them up, and proposing them to its members.” {24} It is clear then, my Reverend Brethren, as long as we continue in the ministry of the Established Church, we have no liberty of interpreting the Doctrines _of that Church_, in any other way than those Articles decide, to which we have solemnly subscribed. If we do so, we can with no honesty or consistency continue ourselves recipients of her honours and emoluments. As to the efficacy of the rite of Baptism in infants, what need we, again, stronger or more satisfactory proof of the doctrine of our Church than these words of our Office which we are directed to use? “_Seeing now_, _that this child_ IS REGENERATE and grafted into the body of Christ’s Church;” and again, “we yield thanks to God, _that it_ HATH _pleased Him to_ REGENERATE _the infant with His Holy Spirit_.”—It is a futile evasion to say, these words are used upon the faith of the Sponsors, and in the charitable spirit of _anticipation_ by the Congregation, that the Infant _may be hereafter_ regenerated;—for the very same prayer is enjoined to be offered up after _Private_ Baptism, where there are _no_ Sponsors and _no_ Congregation.