Mark 16:16
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- #AOC21 What is Faith? It is not only a knowledg, whereby I surely assent to all things which God hath revealed unto us in his Word, but also an hassured trust kindled in my heart by the Holy Ghost, through the Gospel, wher...
- #WLC60 Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature? They who, having never heard the gospel, know not Jesus Christ, and believe not in him, cannot be saved, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, or the laws of...
- #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...
- #AOC71 Doth the Scripture any where expressly forbid the Baptizing of Infants? It is sufficient that the Divine Oracle commands the baptizing of Believers, unless we will make our selves wiser than what is written. Nadab and Abihu were not forbidden to offer strange Fire, yet fo...
- #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...
- #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...
- #AOC78 Why then doth the Holy Ghost call Baptism the washing of the New-birth, and forgiveness of Sins? God speaketh so not without great cause, to wit, not only to teach us that as the filth of our Body is purged by Water, so our Sins also are purged by the Blood and Spirit of Christ, but much more to...
- #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...