 No parent shall be urged to be present, nor be admitted to answer as godfather for his own child ; nor any godfather or godmother shall be suffered to make any other answer or speech, than by the Book of Common Prayer is prescribed in that behalf: neither...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 291826Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1764 - 804 pages
...form of the book of common-prayer." But what then? Another (the igth) canon fays, " No perfon (hall he admitted godfather or godmother to any child at christening, or confirmation, before the faid perfon, fo undertaking, hsth received the holy communion 5" and the lyth canon fays expreflly... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - 1819 - 576 pages
...trust, who will not be careful to discharge the duty of it, the Church provides, that no person le admitted Godfather or Godmother to any Child at Christening...so undertaking hath received the holy Communion**. II. The next rubric relates to the care which the Cw-TheMirate of every Parish is to use preparatory... | |
 | Henry Budd - Baptism - 1827 - 542 pages
...OF THE DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO SPONSORS, INTRUSTED TO THE MINISTER IN THE TWENTY-NINTH CANON. " Neither shall any person be admitted Godfather or...Christening or Confirmation, before the said person so undertakinghath received the holy Communion.' I say the kind and temperate use of this discre1 Isa.... | |
 | Parliament acts - 1828 - 748 pages
...of their own neighbours. 29. Fathers not to be Godfathers in Baptism, and Children not Communicants* prescribed in that behalf: neither shall any person...person so undertaking hath received the holy Communion. 30. The lawful use of the Cross in Baptism explained. WE are sorry that his Majesty's most princely... | |
 | Montagu Robert MELVILLE - 1834 - 142 pages
...Children, not Communicants. No parent shall be urged to be present, nor be admitted to answer as Godfather for his own child : nor any Godfather or Godmother...person so undertaking hath received the holy Communion. XXX — The lawful use of the Cross in Baptism, explained. We are sorry that his Majesty's most princely... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1835 - 492 pages
...Principles of our Church, no person ought to be admitted as a Sponsor, who is not a Communicant—' neither shall any person be admitted Godfather or...so undertaking, hath received the holy Communion.' Canon XXIX. That is to say, no person, who cannot, in a judgement of charity, be considered as a true... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 728 pages
...which we are told, " No parent shall be urged to be present, nor be admitted to answer as godfather for his own child, nor any godfather or godmother...so undertaking hath received the holy communion." From this canon it is evident, not only that no parent may undertake tJie office for his own child,... | |
 | 1839 - 460 pages
...is enacted, " that no parent shall be urged to be present, nor l}e admitted to answer as Godfather for his own child : nor any Godfather or Godmother...that behalf: neither shall any person be admitted as Godfather or Godmother to any child at christening or confirmation, before the person so undertaking... | |
 | John Pring - 1838 - 588 pages
...and two godmothers," * exclusive of the parents whom they have already f- " No person can knowingly be admitted godfather or godmother to any child at...so undertaking hath received the holy communion.'" J Which the church ordains, I conceive, under a supposition that those who communicate are perfect... | |
 | 1839 - 460 pages
...is enacted, " that no parent shall be urged to be present, Йог be admitted to answer as Godfather for his own child : nor any Godfather or Godmother...Common Prayer is prescribed in that behalf: neither »hall any person be admitted as Godfather or Godmother ta any child at christening or confirmation,... | |
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