# First Confession. · Page 4 of 4

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Now, although this fruitful faith is the only certain
fundamental mark by which the children of God
and members of Jesus Christ shall be known, and
through which alone they are also, by grace, made
partakers of the (by us unmerited) benefits of Christ,
God has notwithstanding been pleased to set forth
and confirm to believers, by external, visible signs,
the benefits and merits of his Son Jesus Christ,
which, as has been said, are received only by faith,
and retained by obedience, in order that the things
signified (of the promises of the grace of God),
might shine forth the more clearly by the external
signs, partly to assure the consciences of the believers,
in the new covenant of the grace of God, and
partly to bind the members of Jesus Christ together
in unity, as members belonging to one body. For
this purpose he has instituted in the church of the
New Testament especially two such ordinances or
signs suited to the things signified, in which all true
believers find great benefit and comfort. These are
the Holy Baptism, and the Holy Supper. Eph. 2:7;
John 1:16; Mark 16:16; Luke 22:19; Acts
2:38; 1 Cor. 11:24; Jer. 31:31; 1 Pet. 3:21;
1 Cor. 12:13; 10:17; Rom. 6:5; Matt. 28:19,26.



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