Editing Born again (section)

===Anglicanism===
The phrase "born again" is mentioned in the [[39 Articles]] of the [[Anglican Church]] in article 15, entitled "Of Christ alone without Sin". In part, it reads, "sin, as S. John saith, was not in Him. But all we the rest, although baptized and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things: and if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Articles of Religion. |url=http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/articles/articles.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009061827/http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/articles/articles.html/ |archive-date=October 9, 2024 |website=eskimo.com}}</ref>

Although the phrase "baptized and born again in Christ" occurs in article 15, the reference is clearly to [[John 3]]:3.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ccepiscopal.org/handouts/bcp-1662.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 August 2017 |archive-date=15 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215073226/http://www.ccepiscopal.org/handouts/bcp-1662.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Baptism Office of the [[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|1662 ''Book of Common Prayer'']] directly connects baptism with new birth, affirming a [[baptismal regeneration]] view of the meaning of the phrase "born again", not a conversion experience.

Before the baptism, the prayers include:
"None can enter into the kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghost; I beseech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of his bounteous goodness he will grant to these persons that which by nature they cannot have; that they may be baptized with Water and the Holy Ghost, and received into Christ's holy Church, and be made lively members of the same."{{cn|date=April 2025}}

And: "Beloved, ye hear in this Gospel the express words of our Saviour Christ, that except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Whereby ye may perceive the great necessity of this Sacrament, where it may be had."{{cn|date=April 2025}}

And after baptism: "yield thee humble thanks, O heavenly Father, that thou hast vouchsafed to call us to the knowledge of thy grace, and faith in thee; Increase this knowledge, and confirm this faith in us evermore. Give thy Holy Spirit to these persons; that, being now born again, and made heirs of everlasting salvation, through our Lord Jesus Christ, they may continue thy servants, and attain thy promises; through the same Lord Jesus Christ thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Spirit, everlastingly. Amen."<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ministration of Publick Baptism to Such as are of Riper Years, and Able to Answer for Themselves. |url=https://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/baptism/riper.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208083800/https://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/baptism/riper.html |archive-date=December 8, 2024 |website=eskimo.com}}</ref>