This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...years, he makes his saving confession in his Baptism, only reaffirming the same in his confirmation, and receiving with the other the same strengthening and sanctifying graces of the Holy Spirit, according as he is prepared to welcome them, and thus conforming to the same prescribed Rule of Order, he becomes also regularly a communicant. VII. If we have succeeded in what we undertook in this second division of our Charge, we have proved that the confession of Christ is an absolute condition of salvation; that this confession is first and primarily a specific act of public acknowledgment of Christ, to be afterwards carried out in the unswerving Christian life, and that this specific act is indissolubly conjoined to baptism as a part of the initiatory sacrament the laying on of hands in confirmation, the relation of the confirmed person towards God is also changed, and he becomes competent to undertake spiritual work, both as to duties and privileges, for which he was not previously qualified." We think these statements in his second paragraph need limitation. While confirmation brings divine aids and graces peculiar to itself, yet it is not necessary to make us competent to receive the Holy Communion, or to do certain other Christian works, iu such a sense that without it we are incompetent for these things as the lust clause in the quotation seems to indicate. Certainly this is not the view of the Church, which, expressly by her Knbrics, as well as by her extensive practice, admits persons, in certain circumstances, to Holy Communion prior to their confirmation. by which the man is admitted to the Christian Church, and assumes before the world his Christian discipleship. From the review of the usage in our Church system we learn the...
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