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Question 74

On Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Q. 74

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Are infantes to be baptised also?

What else? for seeing they belong as well vnto the couenaunt & Church of God, as they who are of a full age; and seeing also vnto them is promiseda remission of sinnes by the bloude of Christ and theb holy Ghost the worker of faith, as well as vnto those of full growth: They are by Baptisme to bee ingrafted into the Church of God, and to bec discerned from the children of infidels, in like sort as in the olde Testament was done byd circumcision, in place whereof ise Baptisme succeeded in the new Testament.f

Proofs

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

  1. aGenesis 17:7
  2. bMatthew 19:14
  3. cLuke 1:14–15; Psalm 22:11; Isaiah 24:1–3; Acts 2:39
  4. dActs 10:47
  5. eGenesis 17:14
  6. fColossians 2:11–13

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