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Gen. xvii. 10. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you, and your seed after you, every man child among you shall be circumcised. 2. To seal and apply Christ and the benefits of the new covenant, Rom. iv. 11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised.

Q. 10. To whom doth the sacrament represent, seal and apply Christ and the benefits of the new covenant?.

A. The sacrament doth represent, seal, and apply Christ and the benefits of the new covenant, not unto all that partake thereof, but unto believers only: faith being the eye of the soul to discern the things represented, and the hand of the soul to receive the things sealed and exhibited in the sacrament?

93. Q. What are the sacraments of the new Testament?

A. The sacraments of the new Testament, are baptism, and the Lord's supper.

Q. 1. Where there ever any other sacrament used in the church, besides those of the new Testament ?

A. Formerly under the old Testament, there were other sacraments of use among the Jews, and not those of the new Testament.

Q. 2. What were the ordinary sacraments of common use among the Jews under the old Testament ? )

A. The ordinary sacraments of common use amongst the Jews under the old Testament, were circumcision and the passover: which since the coming of Christ are abrogated and abolished, and are no more to be used in the church under the gospel.

Q. 3. What are the sacraments then of the new Testament, which are to be used in the church under the gospel?

A. The only sacraments of the new Testament, which are to be used in the church under the gospel, are baptism, and the Lord's supper; baptism, which is to be received but once, instead of circumcision,

for imitation; and the Lord's supper, which is to be received often, instead of the passover, for nutrition.

Q. 4. What is the doctrine of the Papists concerning the number of the sacraments of the new Testament ?

A. The doctrine of the Papists concerning the number of the sacraments, is, That there are seven sacraments under the new Testament: Unto baptism and the Lord's supper, they add confirmation, penance, ordination, marriage, and extreme unction: which, though some of them are to be used, namely, marriage, and ordination, yet none of them in their superstitious way; none of them have the stamp of divine institution, to be used as sacraments. None of them are seals of the covenant of grace, and therefore they are no sacraments but Popish additions, whereby they would seem to make amends for their taking away the second commandment out of the decalogue, as contrary to their image woiship, whereby both such as add, and such as take away from God's laws and institutions, are under a severer curse than any of the anathemas and curses of the Popish counsels, Rev. xxii. 18. If any man add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book and if any man shall take away from the word of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life.

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94. Q. What is baptism?

A. Baptism is a sacrament, wherein, the washing with water in the name of the Father and of the Son, and the holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting unto Christ. and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's.

Q. 1. What is the outward sign or element in baptism?

A. The outward sign and element in baptism, is water, and that pure water: so that the addition hereunto of oyl, salt, and spittle, by the Papists in baptism is an abominable profanation of the ordinance, Acts x. 27. Can any man forbid water, that these should not be

baptized? Heb. x. 22. Our bodies washed with pure

water.

Q. 2. What is the thing signified by water in baptism?

A. The thing signified by water in baptism is the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Q. 3. What is the outward action in baptism?

A. The outward action in baptism, is washing of the body with water, which is all that the word baptizing doth signify, and which may be fitly done by pouring water upon the face, to represent Christ's blood poured out for us; or by sprinkling water upon the face, to represent the blood of sprinkling, with which the heart is sprinkled, Heb. x. 22. Having our hearts from an evil conscience, and our hearts sprinkled washed with pure water.

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Q. 4. Is it not necessary to dip or plunge the body into the water in baptism, when the scripture telleth us of several that went down into the water when they were baptized, and were to be buried with Christ in baptism, and therefore plunged and covered with water in baptism, as Christ was covered with earth in the grave?

A. It is not necessary that the body should be dipped or plunged all over in baptism; For, 1. When we read of some that went down into the water when they were baptized, we do not read that they were dipped or plunged over head and ears, they might be baptized by pouring or sprinkling the water upon their faces; yea, in some places which the scripture telleth us persons were baptized, travellers tell us, they were but ancle deep, in which it was impossible they could be plunged all over. and Enon, where it is said, there were much water, the original words do not signify deep waters, but many streams which are known to be shallow, and not fit to plunge the body into. 2. Though some went down into the water when they were baptized, yet the scripture doth not say, that all did so but most probably water was brought into the house, when the jailor and all his household were baptized in the night, and not that he suffered the apostles, then prisoners to go forth, and that he with them

should go with all his houshold, and leave all the other prisoners alone, to seek some river to be baptized and plunged into. 3. The burying with Christ by baptism doth signify the burying of sin in the soul, by the baptism of the Spirit, and not the burying of the body, and covering it all over in the baptism of water. 4. There is a baptizing or washing, as was said, in pouring or sprinkling water on the body; and as our Saviour told Peter when he would have been washed all over by him, that the washing of the feet was sufficient; so the washing of the face is sufficient, especially for infants, who in our colder climates cannot be plunged in a river, without manifest hazard of their lives, which none can prove by scripture to be necessary.

Q. 5. What doth the washing of the body with water represent and signify?

A. The washing of the body with water in baptism, doth represent and signify, the washing of the soul from sin by the blood of Jesus Christ, Rev, i. 5. That loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

Q. 6. In whose name are persons to be baptized? A. Persons are to be baptized in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the holy Ghost, Matth. xxviii. 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.

Q. 7. What is to be understood by the baptizing in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost?

A. By baptizing in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost, is to be understood, not only a naming of the Father, Son and holy Ghost, but a baptizing in the authority and into the faith, profession and obedience of the Father, Son and holy Ghost.

Q. 8. What is signified, sealed and engaged on God's part by our being baptized in his name?

A. There is signified, sealed and engaged on God's part by our being baptized in his nanie: 1. His ingrafting us into Christ. 2. His making us partakers of the benefits of the new covenant, Rom. vi. 3. Know

ye not, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ, were baptized unto his death.

Q. 9. What is meant hy our ingrafting into Christ? A. By our ingrafting into Christ, is meant, our be ing cut off from the old stock of nature, and being joined unto Jesus Christ. whereby we come to draw virtue from him, as from our root, that we may grow up in him, and bring forth fruit unto him, John xv. 1. I am the vine, ye are the branches, Rom. xi. 17. Thou being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive treee.

Q. 10. What are the benefits of the covenant of grace, which by baptism we are made partakers of?

A. The benefits of the covenant of grace, which by baptism we are made partakers of, are: 1. Admission into the visible church, Mat. xviii. 19. Go teach all nations, baptizing them, &c. 2. Remission of sins by Christ's blood, Acts. ii. 32. Be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. 3. Regeneration and sanctification by Christ's Spirit Tit. iii. 5. According to his mercy he saved us, by, the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost. 4. Adoption, together with our union unto Christ. Gal. iii. 26, 27. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. 5. Resurrection to everlasting life. 1 Cor. xv. 29. If the dead rise not at all, why are they baptized for the dead? Rom. vi. 4. 5. We are burried with him by baptism into death, &c. If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection.

Q. 11. What is sealed and engaged on our part by being baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and holy Ghost?

A. By our being baptized in the name of the Father, Son and holy Ghost, is sealed, and engaged on our part, that we will be the Lord's and that, 1. Wholly, soul and body, with all our powers, faculties, members, are to be employed by him as instruments of

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