Assured by Holy Baptism
Rodney Kleyn provides an exposition of Lord's Day 26 of the Heidelberg Catechism, explaining baptism as both a sign and seal of Christ's cleansing work through His blood and Spirit. This resource articulates the Reformed understanding of baptism as an external physical sign representing the inward spiritual reality of salvation, drawing on catechetical instruction to clarify the meaning and purpose of this sacrament.
Lord's Day 26 Question 69. How art thou admonished and assured by holy baptism that the one sacrifice of Christ upon the cross is of real advantage to thee? Answer. Thus: that Christ appointed this external washing with water, adding thereto this promise, that I am as certainly washed by His blood and Spirit from all the pollution of my soul, that is, from all my sins, as I am washed externally with water, by which the filthiness of the body is commonly washed away. Question 70. What is it...
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