Question 96
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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,a and the working of the Spirit in those that by faith receive them.b
Proofs
Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.
Commentary
- Benjamin Beddome, A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism (1752), on this question
Related texts
- The Baptist Catechism (modernized, 1695) Q. 96
- Westminster Larger Catechism (1647) Q. 161
- Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 91
Side by side, with what differs marked: The Shorter Catechism and the Baptist Catechism
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The Baptist Catechism (1695) Q. 96, symbolics.dev/bc1695/96
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