The Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

FOIRM AN
Searmoin, agas baifdeadh gach vile
dhuine do dhenamh, gan eidir dhea-
lughadh. Atamuid aga bhreathnugadh
gurab nearnh imchubhaidh do
chomand Eagluife De, na daoine do
ni go tarcaifneach, bheith ag diultadh
na fligheadh riaglialta ro dhiorgha, do
ordaigh aghliocas Diadhafan, do
theagafg agas do chomhfhurtacht ar
gcedfadh tromdhoine. Tuilleadh o-
ile fos, is follas gur horduigheadh an
baifdeadh do fhreafdal no do dhenamh
anduil visge, da theagafg dhuinne
agas mar eifimlair, mar do ni an tuifge
nighe no glanadh tfalchuir an chuirp,
leath amuigh, gurab amhluidhfm do
ni fuil no bridh fhola Criofd, arnanmanda
do ghlanadh leathafloigh, on
tfalchur, agas on puindfiun mharbhthach,
le rabhamar truailUdhe neamh-
ghlan, do reir naduire, agas geta deaf-
gaidh neamhghlan na droch naduire
fin do ghnàth nar bfeoil, no nar gcorpaibh,
ni haigeorthar oraind i, do
bhridh bhàis Chriofd, oir is linde fir-
entacht
do judge theym onely unworthy of any felowship with him, who
contemptuosly refuse suche ordinary meanes as his wisdome hath
appointed to the instruction of our dull senses.
P"urthermore, it is evident that Baptisme was ordeined to be
ministred in the element of water, to teache us, that lyke as water
outwardly dothe washe away the fylthe of the bodye, so inwardly
dothe the vertue of Christ's blood purge our sowles from that corruption
and deadly poyson wherwith by nature we were infected.
Whose venemous dreggs, althogh they continewe in this our
flesh, yet by the merits of his deathe are not imputed unto us,