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 Chapter 28 - Of Baptism

  1) Baptism is a ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus
     Christ,

         # Mt 28:19

     not only for the solemn admission of the party baptised into the
     visible church,

         # 1Co 12:13

     but also to be to him a sign of the covenant of grace,

         # Col 2:12

     of his ingrafting into Christ,

         # Ga 3:27 Ro 6:5

     of regeneration,

         # Tit 3:5

     of remission of sins,

         # Mr 1:4

     and of his giving up to God through Jesus Christ, to walk in
     newness of life:

         # Ro 6:3,4

     which ordinance is, by Christ's own appointment, to be continued
     in his church until the end of the world.

         Mat 28.19,20
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  2) The outward element to be used in this ordinance is water,
     wherewith the party is to be baptized in the name of the Father,
     and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

         # Mt 3:1 Joh 1:33 Mt 18:19,20
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  3) Immersion, or dipping of the whole person under water is necessary
     for the proper administration of this ordinance,

         # Mt 3:16 Joh 3:23 Ac 8:38,39

     and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part
     of the body, after the traditions of men.

         # Joh 4:1,2 Ac 8:38,39
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  4) Only those who actually profess faith in and obedience to Christ
     are to be baptized and none other.

         # Ac 2:38 Mt 3:6 Mr 16:16 Ac 8:12,37 10:47,48

     The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be
     baptised, because there is neither command nor example in the
     Holy Scriptures for their baptism.

         # Ex 23:13 Pr 30:6 Re 22:18,19
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 Chapter 29 - Of the Lord's Supper

  1) Our Lord Jesus, in the night when he was betrayed, instituted the
     ordinance of his body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to be
     observed in his church to the end of the world, for the perpetual
     remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death,

         # 1Co 11:23-26

     the sealing all its benefits to true believers, their spiritual
     nourishment and growth in him, their further engagement in and to
     all duties which they owe to him,

         # 1Co 10:16,17,21

     and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him, and with
     each other, as members of his body.

         # 1Co 12:13
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  2) In this ordinance Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any
     real sacrifice made at all for remission of sins of the living or
     dead;

         # Heb 9:22,25,26,28

     but only a memorial of that one offering up of himself, by
     himself, upon the cross, once for all, and a spiritual oblation
     of all possible praise to God for the same;

         # 1Co 11:24-26 Mt 26:26,27

     so that Roman sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most
     abominably injurious to Christ's one and only sacrifice, the
     alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect.

         Heb 7.23,24,27 He 10.11,12,14,18
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  3) The Lord Jesus has, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers to
     declare his word of institution to the people, to pray, and bless
     the elements of bread and wine, and by it to set them apart from
     a common to a holy use; and to take and break the bread, to take
     the cup, and (they communicating also themselves) to give both to
     the communicants;

         # Mt 26:26,27 Mr 14:22-24 Lu 22:19,20 1Co 11:23-26

     but to none who are not then present in the congregation.

         # Ac 20:7 1Co 11:20
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  4) The denial of the cup to the people,

         # Mr 14:23 1Co 11:25-29

     worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them
     about for adoration, and reserving them for any pretended
     religious use; are all contrary to the nature of this ordinance,
     and to the institution of Christ.

         # Mt 15:9
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  5) The outward elements in this ordinance, duly set apart to the
     uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as
     that truly, yet figuratively only, they are sometimes called by
     the name of the things they represent, to wit, the body and
     blood of Christ;

         # Mt 26:26-28

     albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly only
     bread and wine, as they were before.

         # 1Co 11:26-28 Mt 26:29
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  6) That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread
     and wine into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly
     called Transubstantiation) by consecration of a priest, or by
     any other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone, but even to
     common sense and reason; overthrows the nature of the ordinance;
     and has been and is the cause of manifold superstitions, yes, of
     gross idolatries.

         # Ac 3:21 1Co 11:24-26 Lu 24:6,39
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  7) Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in
     this ordinance,

         # 1Co 11:28

     do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not
     carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon
     Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death:  the body and
     blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with,
     or under the bread and wine; yet as really, but spiritually,
     present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the
     elements themselves are to their outward senses.

         # 1Co 10:16
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  8) Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in
     this ordinance, yet they receive not the thing signified by it;
     but by their unworthy coming to it are guilty of the body and
     blood of the Lord, to their own damnation.  Therefore all
     ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy
     communion with him, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and
     cannot, without great sin against Christ, while they remain such,
     partake of these holy mysteries,

         # 1Co 11:27-29 2Co 6:14-16

     or be admitted to it.

         # 1Co 5:6,7,13 2Th 3:6,14,15 Mt 7:6
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 Chapter 30 - Of the State of Men after Death,
              and of the Resurrection of the Dead

  1) The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption;

         # Ge 3:19 Ac 13:36

     but their souls, (which neither die nor sleep,) having an
     immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.

         # Lu 23:43 Ec 12:7

     The souls of the righteous, being then made perfect in holiness,
     are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the
     face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption
     of their bodies;

         # Heb 12:23 2Co 5:1,6,8 Php 1:23 Ac 3:21 Eph 4:10

     and the souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they
     remain in torments and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment
     of the great day.

         # Lu 16:23,24 Ac 1:25 Jude 1:6,7 1Pe 3:19
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              and of the Resurrection of the Dead

  2) At the last day, such as are found alive shall not die, but be
     changed:

         # 1Th 4:17 1Co 15:51,52

     and all the dead shall be raised up with the self-same bodies,
     and none other, although with different qualities, which shall
     be united again to their souls for ever.

         # Job 19:26,27 1Co 15:42,43,44
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              and of the Resurrection of the Dead

  3) The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be
     raised to dishonour; the bodies of the just, by his Spirit, to
     honour, and be made conformable to his own glorious body.

         # Ac 24:15 Joh 5:28,29 1Co 15:43 Php 3:21
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 Chapter 31 - Of the Last Judgment

  1) God has appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in
     righteousness by Jesus Christ,

         # Ac 17:31

     to whom all power and judgment is given of the Father.

         # Joh 5:22,27

     In which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged,

         # 1Co 6:3 Jude 1:6 2Pe 2:4

     but likewise all persons that have lived upon earth shall appear
     before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their
     thoughts, words, and deeds, and to receive according to what they
     have done in the body, whether good or evil.

         # 2Co 5:10 Ec 12:14 Ro 2:16 Ro 14:10,12 Mt 12:36,37
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  2) The end of God's appointing this day is for the manifestation of
     the glory of his mercy in the eternal salvation of the elect, and
     of his justice in the damnation of the reprobate, who are wicked
     and disobedient. For then shall the righteous go into everlasting
     life, and receive that fullness of joy and refreshing which shall
     come from the presence of the Lord; but the wicked, who know not
     God, and obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ, shall be cast into
     eternal torments, and be punished with everlasting destruction
     from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.

         # Mt 25:31-46 Ro 2:5,6 9:22,23 Mt 25:21 Ac 3:19 2Th 1:7-10
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  3) As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there
     shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin, and
     for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity;

         # 2Pe 3:11,14 2Co 5:10,11 2Th 1:5-7 Lu 21:7,28 Ro 8:23-25

     so will he have that day unknown to men, that they may shake off
     all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know
     not at what hour the Lord will come; and may be ever prepared to
     say, Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.  Amen.

         # Mt 24:36,42-44 Mr 13:35-37 Lu 12:35,36 Re 22:20
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