X. 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of

the Lord and the cup of devils : ye cannot be partakers of tlie Lord's table and of the table of devils.
' Eph. iv. 2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love ; Ver. 3. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ver. 4. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling ; Ver. 5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 1 Cor. xii. J 3. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whe- ther we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free ; ar.d have been all matle to drink into one Spirit.
b Eph. ii. 11. Wherefore remem- ber that ye, being in time past Gen- tiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands; Ver. 12. That at that
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Q. 164-. How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the New Testament ?
A. Under the New Testament Christ hath instituted in his church only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's supper ''.
Q, 165. What is baptism?
A. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, where- in Clirist hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost% to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself^, of remission of sins by his blood ^, and regeneration by his Spirit '' ; of
adoption,
that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonweahh of Israel, and strangers from the covenaBts of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. Gen. xxxiv. 14. And they said unto them. We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncir- cumcised : for that were a reproach unto us.
163. '^Mat. iii. 11. I indeed bap- tize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear : he shall bap- tize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. 1 Pet. iii. 21. The like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth also now save us (not the put- ting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Rom. ii. 28. For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: Ver. 29. But he is a Jew which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God. 25
164. d Mat. , xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, bap- tizing them in the name of the Fa- ther, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. xi. 20. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. Ver. 23. For I have recei- ved of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord' Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. Mat. xxvi. 26, 27, 28. [See above in t.]
165. ^Mat. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, bap- tizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
f Gal. iii. 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
2 Mark i. 4. John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the bap- tism of repentance for the remission of sins. Rev. i. 5. — Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
hTit. iii. 5. Not by works of righ- teousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing
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and resurrection unto everlasting; life ^ ; and whereby the parties baptized are solemnly admitted into the visible church', and enter into an open and professed engagement to be wholly and only the Lord's "".
Q. 166. (Into ivhom is baptis^n to be administered?
A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obe- dience to him " ; but infants descending from parents, either both or but one of them professing faith in Christ, and obedience to him, are, in that respect, within the cove- nant, and to be baptized ^
Q. 167. How
renewing of the Holy Ghost, Eph.