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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. XXVIII. Of Baptism.
CHAP. XXVIII. Of Baptisme.
Baptism is a Sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christa, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized, into the visible Churchb: but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the Covenant of Gracec, of his ingrafting into Christd, of Regeneratione, of Remission of sinsf, and of his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of lifeg, which Sacrament is, by Christs own appointment, to be continued in his Church, until the end of the Worldh.
BAptism is a Sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christa, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized, into the visible Churchb: but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the Covenant of Gracec, of his ingrafting into Christ