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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.
A. Under the New Testament Christ hath instituted in his Church only two Sacraments, Baptism, and the Lords Supperd.
Q. 163. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghoste, to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himselff, of remission of sins by his bloodg, and regeneration by his Spirith, of adoptioni, and resurrection unto everlasting lifek: and whereby the parties baptized are solemnly admitted into the visible Churchl, and enter into an open and professed engagement to be wholly and only the Lords