A friendly address to females recovering from childbed : in two parts : including a companion to the churching of women, and a few suitable prayers, for private use / by Edward Swatman, A.M.

  • Swatman, Edward.
Date:
1827
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Credit: A friendly address to females recovering from childbed : in two parts : including a companion to the churching of women, and a few suitable prayers, for private use / by Edward Swatman, A.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    acknowledged as a Christian in the sight of the congregation : you not only have many excel- lent prayers offered up in his behalf, but you have also three of your friends bound as God- fathers and Godmothers to provide as far as they can for the welfare of his soul. So that if you negligently defer this part of baptism, you risk the eternal interests of your child ; Surely you would rather have the assistance of three of your friends to train him in the right way, than have the care of him resting only on yourself and his father, both of whom it may please Providence to remove before he is of an age to direct himself. It is not now the time to speak at length upon the Sacrament of Baptism, or I might shew how much it is the duty of all persons to undertake these offices of Godfathers and Godmothers for our friends and neighbours, and not only to undertake them readily, but to perform them conscientiously. It is not how- ever my present business: and besides you may read them very well enforced in a little book which you may easily procure, intitled, A se- rious address to Godfathers and Godmothers*. I would however just remind you, that it is con- trary to the rules of our Church that any Parent should be admitted to answer as Godfather or Godmother for his or her own child, and you ought always therefore to provide three friends * It is one of the I'racts published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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