Amen.
If the Elder be straitened for time, he may omit any part of the service except the prayer of consecration.
If the consecrated bread or wine be all spent before all have communed, the Elder may consecrate more, by repeating the prayer of consecration.
Let those who have scruples concerning the receiving of the communion kneeling, be permitted to receive it either standing or sitting; but no person shall be admitted to the Lord's Supper among us who is guilty of any practice for which we would exclude a member of our Church.
CHAPTER L.
THE MINISTRATION OF BAPTISM TO INFANTS.
The minister, coming to the font, which is to be filled with pure water, shall use the following, or some other suitable exhortation:
Dearly beloved, forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in sin, and that our Saviour Christ saith, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God: I beseech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of his bounteous mercy he will grant to this child that which by nature he cannot have; that he may be baptized with water and the Holy Ghost, and received into Christ's holy Church, and be made a lively member of the same.
Then shall the minister say, Let us pray:
Almighty and everlasting God, we beseech thee for thine infinite mercies, that thou wilt look upon this child; wash him and sanctify him with the Holy Ghost that he, being delivered from thy wrath, may be received into the ark of Christ's Church, and being steadfast in faith, joyful through hope, and rooted in love, may so pass the waves of this troublesome world, that finally he may come to the land of everlasting life, there to reign with thee, world without end, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.