Matthew 28:19

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• #WSC6 How many persons are there in the Godhead? There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
• #BC9 How many persons are there in the Godhead? There are three persons in the godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one God, the same in essence, equal in power and glory.
• #WLC9 How many persons are there in the Godhead? There be three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; although distinguished by th...
• #WLC11 How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father? The scriptures manifest that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father, ascribing unto them such names, attributes, works, and worship, as are proper to God only.
• #HC22 What, then, must a Christian believe? All that is promised us in the Gospel, which the articles of our catholic and undoubted Christian faith teach us in a summary.
• #AOC24 Seing there is but one only substance of God, why namest thou those three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? Because God hath so manifested himself in his Word, that these three distinct Persons are that one true everlasting God.
• #AOC52 What believest thou concerning the Holy Ghost? First, that He is true and Coeternal God, with the eternal Father, and the Son; secondly, that he is also given unto me, to make me, through a true Faith, Partaker of Christ and all his Benefits, to c...
• #HC53 What do you believe concerning the Holy Spirit? First, He is, together with the Father and the Son, true and eternal God. Second, He is also given to me, to make me by true faith share in Christ and all His benefits, to comfort me, and to remain wi...
• #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...
• #HC71 Where has Christ promised that He will wash us with His blood and Spirit as surely as we are washed with the water of baptism? In the institution of baptism, where He says: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. He who believes and is bap...
• #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...
• #AOC76 Where doth Christ promise us that he will as certainly wash us with his Blood and Spirit, as we are washed with the Water of Baptism? In the Institution of Baptism, the words whereof are these, Go, teach all Nations, baptising them in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: he that shall believe, and be baptised, shall...
• #BC96 How do baptism and the Lord’s supper become effectual means of salvation? Baptism and the Lord’s supper become effectual means of salvation, not for any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them, but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of the Spirit in...
• #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.
• #BC100 How is Baptism rightly administered? Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the party in water, into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ’s institution, a...
• #WLC108 What are the duties required in the second commandment? The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his word; particularly pra...
• #BC116 Wherein do Baptism and the Lord's Supper differ from the other ordinances of God? Baptism and the Lord's Supper differ from the other ordinances of God in that they were specially instituted by Christ to represent and apply to believers the benefits of the new covenant by visible a...
• #WLC164 How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the New Testament? Under the New Testament Christ hath instituted in his church only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord’s supper.
• #WLC165 What is Baptism? Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, to be a sign and seal of ingrafting i...
• #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...
• #WLC176 Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper agree? The sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper agree, in that the author of both is God; the spiritual part of both is Christ and his benefits; both are seals of the same covenant, are to be dispense...
• #GC367 Is there any certain proof for this? Yes, indeed. Our Lord specially charged His Apostles to baptize as well as to preach (Mat 28:19). In regard to the Supper. He ordered all to follow His example. Moreover He performed the office of a m...