Question 71

Where doth Christ promise that he will as certainly wash vs with his blood and with his spirite, as wee are washed with the water of Baptisme?

In the institution of Baptisme, the words whereof are these: Goe and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the holy Ghost, he that beleeueth, and is baptised shall bee saued:^a he that beleeueth not, shall bee cōdemned: This promise is repeated, when the Scripture calleth Baptisme, the^b washing of the new byrth, and the washing^c away of sinnes.^d

The vse.

By these testimonies therefore it is made plain, and prooued to be most true, that by Baptisme, I am no lesse assured, that by the bloode of Christ, and by his spirit, I am washed from the spottes of my soul, that is, from al my sinnes, then outwardly by water, the steines of the bodie are vsuallie washed away.