Matthew 3:11

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• #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...
• #HC72 Does this outward washing with water itself wash away sins? No, only the blood of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit cleanse us from all sins.
• #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...
• #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...
• #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...
• #WLC163 What are the parts of a sacrament? The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, used according to Christ’s own appointment; the other an inward and spiritual grace thereby signified.
• #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...