(127 Yet Can. 29. No Parent fhall be urged to he PRESENT nor be admitted tot anfwer as Godfatherfor his own child. Now the Liturgy requireth not any Godfather to Adopt the Child, and take it for his own : Not doth it allow us to refufe the Children of Turks, Jews, or Heathens ; And ifthere God- fathers be wo Atheifis, Turks, Jews or Heathens, or the filthier Adul- terers or wicket. perfors, ifthey did ever in their lives receive the Sacrament, and vill fay as the Book bids them, the Prieft cannot refufe the Child. But ifthe godlieft Parent can get none to be fuch Godfathers or Godmothers, his Child mull not be Baptized. ,I told theBiíhops my felf that I had anotorious Infidel boafled that he would bring his Child to be baptized, and fay the words ofthe book, and fee who dull refufe it ; And I was anfwered that if the Child hadGodfathers, there was no fcruple but I (build Baptize him: But when I as.: what if there Infidels ( profeffedly fuch ) be the Godfa- thers, and fs.h before-hand [ I will fay thole words and -refute me if you dare ] they 'save nothing to fay, that common reafon fhould regard. Now he thct is osu tent to. Baptize thole ( even all whomfoever) that others bid, him üapuec, and .hath no more difcerning or judgingpower of the perforas ca- pacity, than a Lay-man path, is in this no Presbyter, but a Prelates meffenger . or levant. 3. They have no power to inflrud, admonilh, or reprove ip,fecret or pub- lick or in their own houles, any one Ignorant Heretical Infidel, Atheillical or fcandalous wicked man, that will but refufe to fpeak with them or to hear them. And yet he mull give this perfón. the Sacrament, at leafy till heprove that by him which his refufal to (peak to him maketh impoflible,to be pub- lickly proved. If I have great reafon by tome private o:caíìonal fpeech or report to believe, that many of the Pari(h know no more of Chrift than Pagansdq; or that they among their own companions ( who will not accule them) profefs Atheifin, Infidelity, or Heretic ; or if after fcandalous fames I would admonifh them to repent ; Ifthey refufe to fpeak with me, or fufferme not to come and (peak to them,I have no remedy ; but muft.lill continue them in the. Communionof theChurch. Obj. You would not havefilch men forcedyour felf. Antiw. But I would notbe fisted then my felf, to give him the Sacrament of Communion as his Pallor, who refufeth to fpeak withme or to hear me as his. Pallor; but would havepower to refutethat Paftoraladminiftration to himthat refufeth the refs. 4. They have no power to judge ofthe fitnefs ofany one for the Sacra- ment of the Lords Supper, in point of1¿nowledge, faith, or Covenanting with God, nor whether he underftand what the Sacrament is,any more than an In- fidel or ideot s fo be it the Bi!hop do but cgnfirm him (in his childhood) or. he will fay that he is ready to be confirmed. Indeed all are required to fend theirchildren to beCatechifed But I. few Minifters ule it: 2. few perfons in, a pari(h come. 3. If they refufe,we cannot prevent their further communi cating. 4. It is but to fay over the words of that Gatehifmwhich = they are called:
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