Acts 2:38
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- #HC66 What are the sacraments? The sacraments are holy, visible signs and seals. They were instituted by God so that by their use He might the more fully declare and seal to us the promise of the gospel. And this is the promise: th...
- #HC69 How does holy baptism signify and seal to you that the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross benefits you? In this way: Christ instituted this outward washing and with it gave the promise that, as surely as water washes away the dirt from the body, so certainly His blood and Spirit wash away the impurity o...
- #AOC69 Who are the proper Subjects of this Ordinance? Those who do actually profess Repentance towards God, Faith in, and Obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ.
- #HC73 Why then does the Holy Spirit call baptism the washing of regeneration and the washing away of sins? God speaks in this way for a good reason. He wants to teach us that the blood and Spirit of Christ remove our sins just as water takes away dirt from the body. But, even more important, He wants to as...
- #AOC74 How art thou admonished and assured in Baptism, that thou art Partaker of the only Sacrifice of Christ? Because Christ commanded the outward washing of Water, adjoyning this Promise thereunto, that I am no less assuredly washed by his Blood and Spirit from the uncleanness of my Soul, that is, from all m...
- #BC97 What is baptism? Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament instituted by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, burial, and resurrection; of his being ingrafted...
- #BC98 To whom is baptism to be administered? Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, faith in and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.
- #WLC162 What is a sacrament? A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church, to signify, seal, and exhibit unto those that are within the covenant of grace, the benefits of his mediation; to strengthen and inc...
- #WLC166 Unto whom is Baptism to be administered? Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, but infants d...
- #WLC167 How is our Baptism to be improved by us? The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to o...