Lord’s Day 27, Chapter 1: The Sign and Its Meaning (2) / Chapter 2: Different Views of the Covenant (1)

Chapter 1: The Sign and Its Meaning (continued) Chapter 1: The Sign and Its Meaning (continued) But, perhaps, even if that question is put to you point blank, you will answer: "No, of course: even that water of baptism that is sprinkled upon my forehead by the Church does not wash away my sin." Yet it is by no means superfluous to ask the question which the Heidelberg Catechism puts to us in Question and Answer 72, "Is then the external baptism with water the washing away of sin itself?" And...