❧ Here it shall suffice, that euerie one answere thus for hym selfe.
I beleue, and confesse the same, and yelde vp my selfe to Christe, and his cōgregation, trusting in the grace and healpe of our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ. But where chyl∣dren be not so exercised in the knowledge of religion, that they can answere by herte ac∣cording to the prescribed fourme, the visiter, whiche shal administer confirmation, muste reade al the answers to suche children, and it shalbe sufficient, if they answere simply, that they beleue the thinges, that were read, how be it he shall labour so to declare all thinges vnto them, that they may vnderstande what thei go about, and what thei cōfesse, and pro¦fesse. Howbeit they must be diligently war∣ned, that they remēbre, that they stand in the sight of god, whō they cā not deceyue, which beholdeth the herte. And that therefore they must procure with al reuerēce, that they de∣clare the same thinge in their lyfe, that they professe wyth their mouth, and thynke in their herte.
But, as we warned before, al the chyldrē one by one muste be exercised, and prepared hereunto, and diligētly examined the wieke before, by the ministers and Elders of eue∣rie