“That they should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and
vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh;
that they should believe all the articles of the Christian faith; and
that they should keep God’s holy will and commandments, and walk in
the same all the days of their life.”—_Ch. Cat._
13. But how do you show that children in after life are bound to fulfil
those engagements made for them by others, at this unconscious period of
their infancy?
They are bound to do so by the obligation which they themselves owe to
God, inasmuch as their parents or spiritual guardians entered into such
engagements only, on their behalf, as each individual is bound to
fulfil, whether such engagements had or had not been entered into by
others.