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...uttered — " We yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased Thee to regenerate this infant with Thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy Holy Church." Here we have one of the strongest roots of ritualistic development. To the exposition of this point,... | |
 | Lewis A. Drummond - 900 pages
...priest say, 'We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church.'" This, then, is the clear and unmistakable teaching of a Church calling itself Protestant. I am not... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 1996 - 370 pages
...themes: We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy spirit, to receive him for...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church. 16 The Church is variously referred to in the Book of Common Prayer as the 'ark' (Baptism), the 'spouse'... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 1996 - 370 pages
...themes: We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy spirit, to receive him for...by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church.16 The Church is variously referred to in the Book of Common Prayer as the 'ark' (Baptism),... | |
 | Karen B. Westerfield Tucker - 2001 - 368 pages
...that "it hath pleased thee [to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit,] to receive this Infant for thine own Child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy Church." Modification — deletion of "now" from "that being [now] born again" — was made to the thanksgiving... | |
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We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church. 
