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The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions

Question 94

On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 94

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What is Baptism?

Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signifie, and seal, our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the Covenant of Grace, and our engagement to be the Lords.

Baptism,

1. Is a Sacrament, wherein is the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.a*

2. Doth signifie, and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the Covenant of grace.b†

3. Doth signifie, and seal our engagement, to be the Lords.c‡

Notes

  1. *Mat 28.19. Go ye, and teach all Nations, baptizing them, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
  2. †Rom. 6.3. Know ye not, that so many of us, as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
  3. ‡Rom. 6.4. We are buried with him by Baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead, by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Proofs

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

  1. aMatthew 28:19
  2. bRomans 6:3
  3. cRomans 6:4

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