Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 94
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 signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
Scripture proofs King James Version
- Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
- Rom. 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
- Gal. 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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- Westminster Shorter Catechism
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- King James Version (Scripture proofs)
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- First published 1648
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- Public domain.
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