Genesis 17:7

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• #WLC62 What is the visible church? The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places of the world do profess the true religion, and of their children.
• #HC74 Should infants, too, be baptized? Yes. Infants as well as adults belong to God’s covenant and congregation. Through Christ’s blood the redemption from sin and the Holy Spirit, who works faith, are promised to them no less than to adul...
• #WLC101 What is the preface to the ten commandments? The preface to the ten commandments is contained in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Wherein God manifesteth his sover...
• #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...
• #WLC177 Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper differ? The sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper differ, in that baptism is to be administered but once, with water, to be a sign and seal of our regeneration and ingrafting into Christ, and that even...