| Alexander Campbell - Bible - 1835 - 406 pages
...child may lead the rest of his life according to this beginning." Then shall be said, all kneeling, — "We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...adoption, and to incorporate him into thy holy church. And humbly we beseech thee to grant that he, being dead unto sin, and living unto righteousness, and... | |
| Eleanor A. Towle - Anglo-Catholicism - 1890 - 376 pages
...of Christ's Church, let us give thanks unto Almighty God for these benefits' ; ' We yield Thee most hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy Holy Church.' Nevertheless, the Judicial Committee decreed that ' the doctrine held by Mr. Gorham is not contrary... | |
| Sacraments - 1892 - 302 pages
...regenerate and grafted into the body of Christ's Church," and again, in the prayer which follows, " We yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy holy Church." To the same purpose in the Catechism every baptized child is taught to speak of his baptism as that... | |
| Heman Lincoln Wayland - 1892 - 370 pages
...leave no mistake, we have the words of the thanksgiving prescribed : " Then shall the priest say, ' We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...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... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1892 - 636 pages
...ourselves we declare, without judging other men, that we could no more offer the prayer, beginning " We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption," than we could publicly declare an untruth under the sanction of an oath. And were there no other objection... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1892 - 610 pages
...forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation ; But deliver us from evil. Amen. WE yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate these thy Servants with thy Holy Spirit, to receive them for thine own children by adoption, and to... | |
| Episcopal Church. General Convention, Episcopal Church - 1892 - 76 pages
...be printed in Roman type. 7. The Thanksgiving after the Lord's Prayer is changed so that it reads : yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate these thy Servants with thy Holy Spirit, to receive them for thine own children by adoption, and to... | |
| Bible - 1893 - 382 pages
...thee In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,' God is thanked as before : ' We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father,...thee to regenerate this Infant with thy holy Spirit.' The change is believed to have been wrought through the magic of those few priestly words ! And in... | |
| Hymns, English - 1893 - 292 pages
...end. III. — Leader. The Lord be with you. School. And with thy spirit. Leader. Let us pray. TT7"E yield Thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it ' ' hath pleased Thee to regenerate us with Thy Holy Spirit, to receive ns for Thine own children by adoption, and to incorporate us into... | |
| Bible - 1893 - 368 pages
...claimed for it by others. After administering the rite, the Priest (of the Church of England) thanks God, 'that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit.' It is so easy a thing for parents to bring their children to the font for baptism, that there is no... | |
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