Question 71

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Where has Christ promised us that he will as certainly wash us by his blood and spirit, as we are washed with the water of baptism?

In the institution of baptism which is thus expressed, “go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,”^a “he that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not, shall be damned.”^b This promise is also repeated, where the scripture calls baptism “the washing of regeneration,^c and the washing away of sins.”^d

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

Commentary

Jeremias Bastingius, A Catechisme of Christian Religion, with the Arguments and Use (1591), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on Q. 69–74

Related texts

An Orthodox Catechism (1680) Q. 76

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Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Q. 71, symbolics.dev/heidelberg/71

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