...Can. 60. Of the Antiquity of Confirmation in the Church of God. [" It hath been a solemn, ancient, and laudable custom in the Church of God, continued from the Apostles' times."] Can. 61. Bishops shall confirm in their visitation. Ministers shall prepare children for confirmation....

...Can. 60. Of the Antiquity of Confirmation in the Church of God. [" It hath been a solemn, ancient, and laudable custom in the Church of God, continued from the Apostles' times."] Can. 61. Bishops shall confirm in their visitation. Ministers shall prepare children for confirmation....

...times, that all bishops should lay their hands upon children baptized and instructed in the catechism of Christian religion, praying over them and blessing...confirmation ; and that this holy action hath been accustomed in the church in former ages to be performed in the bishop's visitation every third year...

...brought, and by the bishop to be confirmed." • Canon LX. says, " It hath been a solemn, ancient, and laudable custom in the Church of God, continued from...Apostles' times, that all bishops should lay their hands npon children baptized, and instructed in the Catechism of Christian religion, praying over them, and...

...but Fothergill R*an to have taken it from a book of English Homilies similar to the A« Feitinli*. custom in the Church of God, continued from the Apostles'...children baptized, and instructed in the Catechism of Christian Religion, praying over them, and blessing them, which we commonly call Confirmation, and...

...Besides that, in the 6oth Canon of the Church of England (AD i603), it is said : — ." It hath been a custom in the Church of God, continued from the apostles'...times, that all bishops should lay their hands upon the children baptized, and instructed in the Catechism of the Christian religion, praying over them...

...according to which examples, we do ordain." Canon Ix. : " Forasmuch as it hath been a solemn, ancient, and laudable custom in the church of God, continued from the Apostles' times, that, &c.; we will and appoint." So in the thirtieth canon, the lawful use of the cross in baptism is explained...

...THE RITE* OF CONFIRMATION. IN the sixtieth canonf it is stated, " It hath been a solemn, ancient, and laudable custom in the Church of God, continued from...blessing them, which we commonly call Confirmation." At the end of the Catechism there is a rubric which says, " So soon as children are come to a competent...

...Confirmation to be performed once in three Teart. " Forasmuch as it hath been a solemn, ancient, and laudable custom in the Church of God, continued from...children baptized, and instructed in the Catechism of Christian Religion, praying over them, and blessing them, which wo commonly call Confirmation, and...

...shall be brought to the bishop." By Can. 60 of 1603, " Forasmuch as it hath been a solemn, ancient and laudable custom in the Church of God, continued from...confirmation, and that this holy action hath been accustomed in the church in former ages, to be performed in the bishop's visitation every third year;...