The Book of Common Prayer: and The Scottish LiturgyEpiscopal Church in Scotland
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The Book of Common Prayer: and The Scottish Liturgy
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_Answer_. They did promise and vow three things in my name. First,
that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and
vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Secondly, that I should believe all the articles of the Christian
faith. And thirdly, that I should keep God's holy will and
commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.
_Question_. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe, and
to do, as they have promised for thee?
_Answer_. Yes verily: and by God's help so I will. And I heartily
thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of
salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray unto God
to give me his grace, that I may continue in the same unto my
life's end.
_Catechist_.
Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief.
_Answer_.
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the
Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell; The third
day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And
sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence
he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I 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. Amen.
_Question_. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy
Belief?
_Answer_. First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath
made me, and all the world.
Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind.
Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the
elect people of God.
_Question_.
You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you,
that you should keep God's Commandments. Tell me how many there be?
_Answer_. Ten.
_Question_. Which be they?
_Answer_.
The same which God spake in the twentieth chapter of Exodus,
saying, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
I. Thou shalt have none other gods but me.
II. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth
beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down
to them, nor worship them. For I the Lord thy God am a jealous
God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy
unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments.
III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain: for
the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his Name in vain.
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