# Of Holy Baptism.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF HOLY BAPTISM.



Holy baptism is an external, visible ordinance,
the rite of which consists in this: that all those who
hear believe, and receive gladly with a penitent
heart, the doctrine of the holy Gospel, are baptized,
for a holy purpose, with water, in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, according
to the institution of Christ, and the usage of
his apostles. Acts 2:41; Matt. 3:11; Acts 1:35–38;
10:48.

The benefit which the Lord God, on his part,
declares through the sign of baptism, is: The washing
away of the sinful corruptions of the soul,
through the shedding of the blood of Christ; which
signifies the forgiveness of sins, obtained through
this blood, to the assurance of a good conscience
with God, by which believers comfort themselves
with the promise of eternal salvation. Acts 22:16;
Col. 1:14; 1 John 1:7; Heb. 1:3; Rev. 1:5.

The obligations which baptism lays upon those
baptized, are: That they, burying their sins thereby
into the death of Christ, bind themselves to the newness
of the life of Jesus, in order to employ, as members
of the body of Christ (having put on Christ),
each his several gift, for the maintenance and improvement
of this body in spiritual and temporal
things; and further, that they as the true household
of God, and citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem,
must obey the civil laws of their King by observing
all his commandments. Rom. 6:3,4; Col. 2:12;
Gal. 3:27; 1 Cor. 12:25; Eph. 2:19; Matt. 28:20.





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