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The Historical Development of the PCA Book of Church Order

Chapter 56 : The Administration of Baptism
(The Baptism of Infants and Children)

Paragraph 6 :

56-6. Then the minister is to pray for a blessing to attend this ordinance, after which, calling the child by name, he shall say:
I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
As he pronounces these words, he is to baptize the child with water, by pouring or sprinkling it on the head of the child, without adding any other ceremony; and the whole shall be concluded with prayer.

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ANTECEDENT TEXTS:
PCA 1973, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly,
The

Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text,
The

PCUS 1933,


PCUS 1925,


PCUS 1894,

PCUS 1885, Third Revision of the Directory of Worship, III-4-3
3. Then the minister is to pray that what is signified and sealed in this sacrament may be accomplished by the Spirit in the child; after which, calling it by its name, he shall say, ―I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. As he pronounces these words he is to baptize the child with water, by pouring or sprinkling, without adding any other ceremony, and the whole shall be concluded with prayer.



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