Part 47 (1/2)

HE BE BROUGHT TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE BISHOP

_Question_.

What is your Name?

_Answer_. _N_. or _NN_.

_Question_. Who gave you this Name?

_Answer_. My G.o.dfathers and G.o.dmothers in my Baptism; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of G.o.d, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.

_Question_. What did your G.o.dfathers and G.o.dmothers then for you?

_Answer_. They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful l.u.s.ts of the flesh.

Secondly, that I should believe all the articles of the Christian faith. And thirdly, that I should keep G.o.d's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.

_Question_. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe, and to do, as they have promised for thee?

_Answer_. Yes verily: and by G.o.d's help so I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray unto G.o.d to give me his grace, that I may continue in the same unto my life's end.

_Catechist_.

Rehea.r.s.e the Articles of thy Belief.

_Answer_.

I believe in G.o.d the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into h.e.l.l; The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth at the right hand of G.o.d the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

_Question_. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief?

_Answer_. First, I learn to believe in G.o.d the Father, who hath made me, and all the world.

Secondly, in G.o.d the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind.

Thirdly, in G.o.d the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the elect people of G.o.d.

_Question_.

You said that your G.o.dfathers and G.o.dmothers did promise for you, that you should keep G.o.d's Commandments. Tell me how many there be?

_Answer_. Ten.

_Question_. Which be they?

_Answer_.