The Order of Confirmation Or Laying on of Hands upon Those That Are Baptized and Come to Years of Discretion

To the end that Confirmation may be ministered to the more edifying of such as shall receive it, the Church has thought good to order, That none hereafter shall be Confirmed, but such as can say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments; and can also answer to such other Questions, as in the short Catechism are contained; which order is very convenient to be observed; to the end, that children, being now come to the years of discretion, and having learned what their Godfathers and Godmothers promised for them in Baptism, they may themselves, with their own mouth and consent, openly before the Church, ratify and confirm the same; and also promise, that by the grace of God they will evermore endeavor themselves faithfully to observe such things, as they, by their own confession, have assented unto.¹