my fins, as I am () washed externally with water, by which the filthinefs of the body is commonly washed away.

m Mark i, 4. Luke iii, 3.

Q. 70, What is it to be washed with the blood and Spirit of Chrift?

A. It is to receive of God the remiffion of fins, freely for the fake of Chrift's blood, which he (n) thed for us by his facrifice upon the crofs: and alfo to be renewed by the Holy Ghoft, and fan&ified to be members of Chrift; that fo we may more and more die unto fin, and (o) lead holy and un blameable lives,

# Hebrews xii, 24. 1 Pet. i, 2. Apo, i, 5. John i, 33. Rom vi, 4. Col. ii, 12.

Q. 71. Where has Chrift promifed us, that be will as certainly wash us by his blood and fpirit, as we are washed with the water of baptifm?"

A. In the inftitution of baptifm, which is thus "expreffed, "(p) go ye therefore, and teach all "nations, baptizing them in the name of the Fa"ther, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft (g)". "he that believeth and is baptifed fhall be faved; "but he that believeth not, fhall be damned,”

℗ Mat. xxyiii. 19. 9 Mark xvi, 16.

this promife is also repeated, where the scripture calls baptifm "the (r) washing of regeneration, and the washing (s) away of fins."

Titus iii, 5. s A&s xxii, 16.

XXVII. LORD'S DAY.

Q. 72. Is then the external baptifm with water, the washing away of fin itself?

A. Not at all: for the (t) blood of Jefus Chrift only, and the Holy Ghoft, cleanfe us from all (z) fin.

Mat iii, 11. 1 Pet. iii, 2. u 1 John i, 7. 1 Cor. vi, 11.

Q73. Why then doth the Holy Ghoft call baptifm "the washing of regeneration" and "the washing away of fins ""

A. God fpeaks thus not without great cause, to wit, not only thereby to teach us, that as the filth of the body is purged away by water, fo our fins are (v) removed by the blood and spirit of Jefus Chrift; but especially, that by this divine pledge and fign he may affure us, that we are spiritually

Rev. i, 5, 1 Cor. vi, 11.

cleansed from our fins as really, as we are externally (x) washed with water,

x Mark xvi, 16. Gal. iii, 27.

Q. 74. Are infants alfo to be baptifed?

A, Yes, for fince they, as well as the adult, are included in the (y) covenant and (2) church of God; and fince (a) redemption from fin by the blood of Chrift, and the (6) Holy Ghoft, the author of faith, is promised to them no less than to the adult; they must therefore by baptifm, as a fign of the cove nant, be alfo admitted into the chriftian church; and be diftinguished (c) from the children of infidels, as was done in the old covenant or teftament by (d) circumcifion, instead of which, (e) baptism is inftituted in the new covenant.

y Gen. xvii, 7. Acts ii, 39. z 1 Cor. vii, 14. Joelii, 16. a Mat. xix, 14. b Luke i, 14, 15. Pf. xxii. 10. Acts ii, 39. c A&s. x, 47. 1 Cor. xii, 13. and vii, 14. d Gen. xvii, 14. e Col. ii. 11, 12, 13.

OF THE HOLY SUPPER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

XXVIII. LORD's DAY.

Q. 76. How art thou admonished and affured in the

Lord's fupper, that thou art a partaker of that one facrifice of Chrift, accomplished on the cross, and of all his benefits?

A. Thus, That Chrift has commanded me and all believers, to eat of this broken bread, and to drink of this cup, in remembrance of him ; (ƒ) adding these promises: first, that his body was offered and broken on the cross, for me, and his blood fhed for me, as certainly as I fee with my eyes, the bread of the Lord broken for me, and the cup communicated to me: And further, that he feeds and nourishes my foul to everlasting life, with his crucified body, and fhed blood, as affuredly as I receive from the hands of the minifter, and tafte with my mouth the bread and cup of the Lord, as certain figns of the body and blood of Chrift,

fMat. xxvi, 26, 27, 28. Mark xiv, 22, 23, 24. Luke xxii, 19, 20. 1 Cor. x, 16, 17. and xi, 23,

24, 25.

Q76. What is it then to eat the crucified body, and drink the fhed blond of Chrift?

A. It is not only to embrace with a believing heart all the fufferings and death of Christ, and thereby to (g) obtain the pardon of fin, and life eternal; but also, befides that, to become more and

g John vi, 35, 40, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 54.

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more (b) united to his facred body by the Holy Ghost who dwells both in Chrift and in us: fo that we, though Chrift is in (i) heaven and we on earth, are notwithstanding "Flesh of his fiefh, and bone of (k) his bone;" and that we live (/) and are governed for ever by one fpirit, as members of the fame body are by one fout.

John vi, 55, 56. i Acts iii, 21. and i, 9, 10, 11. h John vi, 26. k Eph. v, 29, 30, 31, 32. I Cor. vi, 15, 17, 19 1 John iii, 24. John vi, 56, 57, 58. Eph. iv, 15, 16.

Q77. Where has Chrift promised that he will as certainly feed and nourish believers with his body and blood, as they eat of this broken bread, and drink of this cup?

A. In the inftitation of the fupper, which is thus expressed; (m)" The Lord Jefus in the fame night "in which he was betrayed, took bread and when "he had given thanks, he brake it, and faid, take, "L cat; this is my body, which is broken for you; "this do in remembrance of me; after the fame "manner alfo he took the cup, when he had "fupped, faying, this (x) cup is

m 1 Cor. xi, 23. Mat xxvi, 26. Luke xxii, 19. 7 Exod. xxiv, 8.

the new tefta

Mark xiv, 22.

Heb. ix, 20.