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- Of what is baptism a sign and seal?
Of the washing away of sins in the blood of Jesus Christ. Acts 2:38.
- Who must receive baptism?
All adult believers who confess their sins and their faith in Christ, and their children.
- Why must infants be baptized?
Because they as well as adults are comprehended in the covenant of grace. Genesis 17:7; Acts 2:39.
- How can they be comprehended in that covenant?
Because God establishes His covenant in the line of continued generations. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 17:7; Acts 2:39.
- Prove from Scripture that God establishes His covenant with His people in the line of generations.
"And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and thy seed after thee." Genesis 17:7.
- Who are Abraham's seed?
All believers, because Abraham is called the father of those who believe. Romans 4:12, 16; Galatians 3:9.
- Are all baptized children, then, elect?
By no means, for they are not all Israel that are of Israel. Romans 9:6.
- Does not God, then, seal in baptism that which He does not always bestow?
Not at all, for baptism, like circumcision, seals the righteousness which is by faith. Romans 4:11.
- What obligation follows from being baptized?
To love the Lord our God with all our heart and to walk in a new and holy life.
- In Galatians 3:16, who does Paul say is the seed of Abraham?
- In Galatians 3:29, who does Paul say are the seed of Abraham?
- Look up Lord's Day 27, Question and Answer 74, and write what this Lord's Day gives as the grounds for the baptism of infants.
- Read the parts of the Baptism Form which deal with "To infants of believers," and write what this section gives as the grounds for the baptism of infants.
- Look up I Corinthians 10:1, 2; I Peter 3:20, 21; and the Prayer in the Baptism Form and explain how the Flood and the passage through the Red Sea are types of baptism.
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