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192 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH.
act so many other delightful and impressive associations
—viz., the rite of Confirmation ?
In the Protestant Episcopal Church, the former idea
in Baptism (the voluntary confession of the person baptized by Christ and His Church) is accomplished upon
the infant; and the latter idea (the voluntary confession
of Christ by the person baptized, after repentance and
faith), which is separated from the former in respect of
time only so far as the nature of the case requires, is
provided for in the rite of Confirmation, which is thus
shown to be intimately connected with Infant Baptism,
and is really a part of it, and its proper and necessary
sequel or complement.
This peculiar relation of the rite of Confirmation in
the Protestant Episcopal Church to Infant Baptism will
be readily perceived by any one who will compare together the Church Catechism and the offices of Baptism
and Confirmation.*
* It maybe objected to this view that the Protestant Episcopal Church
does in one case allow private Baptism of infants without sponsors.
But the very fact alluded to confirms our views. The Protestant Episcopal Church (we speak not of the customs of any of its ministers or members who neglect or violate its regulations) allows private Baptism without the confession of the baptismal obligation only in one case, that of
infants or children when the life of the child is in such imminent hazard that public Baptism cannot be performed. The confession of Christ
by the sponsors for the child is in this case omitted, because there is no
reasonable probability nor hope that the child will ever live to assume
it for itself. All is done which in the nature of the case is possible;
the parent consecrates his child to the Lord, and the minister of Christ
baptizes the child in His name. Vet the Church provides that, " if the
child which is after this sort baptized do afterward live, it is expedient
that it be brought into the Church, to the intent that the congregation
may be certified of-the time and form of Baptism privately before used."
At the same time, when this certificate is read, the sponsors must publicly
| Title | The comprehensive church |
| Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
| Publisher | Appleton |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000196 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 192 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. act so many other delightful and impressive associations —viz., the rite of Confirmation ? In the Protestant Episcopal Church, the former idea in Baptism (the voluntary confession of the person baptized by Christ and His Church) is accomplished upon the infant; and the latter idea (the voluntary confession of Christ by the person baptized, after repentance and faith), which is separated from the former in respect of time only so far as the nature of the case requires, is provided for in the rite of Confirmation, which is thus shown to be intimately connected with Infant Baptism, and is really a part of it, and its proper and necessary sequel or complement. This peculiar relation of the rite of Confirmation in the Protestant Episcopal Church to Infant Baptism will be readily perceived by any one who will compare together the Church Catechism and the offices of Baptism and Confirmation.* * It maybe objected to this view that the Protestant Episcopal Church does in one case allow private Baptism of infants without sponsors. But the very fact alluded to confirms our views. The Protestant Episcopal Church (we speak not of the customs of any of its ministers or members who neglect or violate its regulations) allows private Baptism without the confession of the baptismal obligation only in one case, that of infants or children when the life of the child is in such imminent hazard that public Baptism cannot be performed. The confession of Christ by the sponsors for the child is in this case omitted, because there is no reasonable probability nor hope that the child will ever live to assume it for itself. All is done which in the nature of the case is possible; the parent consecrates his child to the Lord, and the minister of Christ baptizes the child in His name. Vet the Church provides that, " if the child which is after this sort baptized do afterward live, it is expedient that it be brought into the Church, to the intent that the congregation may be certified of-the time and form of Baptism privately before used." At the same time, when this certificate is read, the sponsors must publicly |
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