Why does the Church order the sign of the cross to be made on the infant's forehead? (See Office for the Public Baptism of Infants.)

10. What are the benefits which the baptized receive in this Sacrament?

In what relation do they stand to GOD?

Quote Holy Scripture in proof of your answer. Rom.

viii. 15.

II. BAPTISMAL VOWS.

1. Explain fully, "My godfathers and godmothers in my Baptism did promise and vow three things in my

name."

How far are you bound by their promise?

If you fail in your engagement, what will be the result? Give Scriptural proofs.

2. What is the first thing required of persons to be baptized?

Explain what three things in particular you have vowed

to renounce.

Give proofs from Holy Scripture that the Christian is able by Divine Grace to overcome Satan.

Also quote from the Old and New Testament any text which may show how the world and its pomps and vanity are to be regarded. Eccles., 1 S. John, Coloss.

What are the lusts or works of the flesh? Gal. v.

Is it permitted to the young to indulge in these? Epis. to Timothy.

Enumerate those graces which the baptized are to strive to exhibit in their life and conversation.

3. What brief summary have we of the chief Articles of our Faith?

What does the Church say concerning Creeds? (See Article of Religion.)

Why is the Creed contained in the Form of Daily Prayer and in the Catechism called the Apostles' Creed?

4. What title is given to that Creed which we use in the office for Holy Communion?

Why was it so called?

afflicted with any disease, should they wash in those waters after they were touched by a heavenly messenger, while at baptism a person may be cleansed from his sins by being washed in the waters after they are sanctified by GoD's heavenly messengers, the priests: but the same miracle will do equally well in typifying any vehicle through which GOD pleases to send His grace, and therefore may be applied to Confirmation.

The man on whom CHRIST performed His miracle had been paralysed thirty and eight years, and it appears to have been as a punishment for some sin, that the sickness was sent upon him then. CHRIST, most likely to try the patience of one who had been so long sick, inquires of him if he will be made whole, and then heals him.

No person is obliged to enter the Christian covenant, CHRIST'S Church is open to all, and all are welcome, and when the Christian is admitted, CHRIST gives His free grace, not for any deservings on his part, that would be rewarding him; He gives it to him gratuitously.

But, because it is given freely, it by no means signifies that we are required to do nothing with it after it is given; we are expected to work with it, and if we neglect this, we are punished for neglecting it. After the paralytic man had been healed, CHRIST, although He met him in the temple, (a very proper place for him who had been sick,) did not fail to remind him that should he sin again, a worse thing would come upon him.

Our SAVIOUR had before explained this in His parable of the unclean spirit, who, after he had been once cast out, and a second time found a ready reception for him, the last state of the man in whom he had entered, was worse than the first. This is also, in its first sense, a type of baptism, but might also be applied to other graces. The devil is cast out by the free grace of GOD, and the man is enabled to work with the grace given him. Before this time his sins were sins of infirmity, but now if his heart is again become wicked, is again swept and garnished for the devil, his sin is seven times worse than it was before, because he has despised the strengthening grace of GoD, and has sinned now, having the power to do better. He

Is there more than one Mediator?

3. Show the necessity of private and public prayer, by texts from the Old and New Testament.

Was our Blessed LORD careful to use private prayer, and to be present at the services of the Temple and the synagogues?

What inference do you draw from this?

4. What grounds have we for supposing that God accepts man's offering of Houses set apart and consecrated to His service?

Are any blessings specially promised to them who meet together for Common Prayer in such Holy Places ?

5. State any arguments you can in favour of a precomposed Liturgy, and against extempore prayers.

Why is the Prayer Book of the Church of England called the "Book of Common Prayer ?"

6. Give a short paraphrase or explanation of the LORD'S Prayer.

IV.-CONFIRMATION.

1. What is the original and literal meaning of the word "Sacrament?"

What do you mean by the word in its highest sense, as used in the Catechism?

How many

Church?

Sacraments has CHRIST ordained in His

Show the three points you regard to be requisite to constitute a Sacrament.

2. Is the HOLY SPIRIT given to us in all His fulness at Baptism?

Have we any grounds for supposing that He will at any subsequent period come unto us?

What rite is ordered for the conveyance of the Divine Gift?

Define the ordinance and the graces bestowed upon a meet recipient.

By what other significant names is it known?

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3. Had the Jewish Church any rite which at all bore a

resemblance to this?

What reasons have

you to suppose that our Blessed

LORD observed it? S. Luke ii.

4. Is Confirmation a Divine ordinance ?

On what grounds do you make this answer?

Prove that it was regarded by the Apostles as essential, and consequently generally practised. Acts viii.; xix. In what rank does S. Paul place it? Heb. vi.

What order of clergy can alone administer it?

5. What does the Church of England, either in Rubrics or any other part of the Prayer Book, say of Confirmation?

Are you therefore bound to observe this holy ordinance? Do you thereby incur any obligation which you have not already incurred by your Baptism?

6. What is required of those who come to be confirmed?

What benefits are you seeking in partaking of this holy rite?

Do you desire and intend, immediately, and regularly after your Confirmation, to be a partaker of the Sacrament of the LORD's Supper?

7. Is any symbolic action used in administering Confirmation?

Of what is it emblematic?

V. THE HOLY COMMUNION.

1. When was the Sacrament of the LORD's Supper ordained?

Had our Blessed LORD given any previous intimation that this, like Holy Baptism, was necessary to salvation ? S. John vi.

In Baptism, life was given; in Confirmation, strength and illumination: what blessing is attached to a faithful partaking of the LORD's Supper?

2. Quote S. Paul's account of the Institution. 1 Cor.

HEADS OF CATECHETICAL INSTRUCTION.

EACH one of the catechists should be supplied with two or three of those explanations of the Catechism, of which so many have been published in the form of question and answer;-Bather's, Sinclair's, and Bevan's are as good as any. Before attempting to catechise, they should be induced to study these diligently, so as not only to make their own the information conveyed, but to get into the author's style and run of questioning. The Parson also will do well to superintend this in person, and in fact to have a class of catechists pretty well indoctrinated before the general catechising begins.

But all these books must be considered text-books, not class-books; they must never be used in the act of catechising. No one will ever become a good catechist who reads his questions instead of asking them, because the very essence of catechising is to catch the idea as it rises in the mind of the catechumen, and to build upon that. It is therefore as impossible to determine beforehand what the questions will be, as to write down beforehand the observations which a man intends to make in the course of conversation. It is different with the Church Catechism: this is a short summary of the Christian Religion, which is to be impressed on the memory ;-in nine cases out of ten it is learned by rote,-in nine cases out of ten it is learned before the child is capable of understanding it; and it is intended to be so learned, because it forms the foundation for subsequent instruction,—the axionis, as it were, of religion. There is no reason here why the questions should not be put exactly as they are written in the book, because the quality to be exercised in the catechumen here