Occasional Prayers

The minister, standing at the font, shall say:

As we celebrate again the rising of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and so join ourselves to the triumph of life over death, let us remember that in our baptism we were united to him both in his death and in his resurrection. Let us therefore again affirm the promises of the new and risen life, renouncing evil, confessing faith, and pledging our obedience.
Do you here, in the presence of God and of this congregation, renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh, so that you will not follow nor be led by them?
Answer: We renounce them all.
Do you believe all the articles of the Christian faith as contained in the Apostles’ Creed?
Answer: We do.
Will you endeavour to keep God’s holy will and commandments, and to walk in the same all the days of your life?
Answer: We will.

Let us pray.
Grant, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him; and that through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.