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The Reformed Form for the Administration of Baptism is one of the most important of all the secondary confessions of many Reformed churches worldwide. The commentary sets forth the Reformed doctrine of baptism as sign and seal, the doctrine of the covenant of God with the children of believers. Ord
The Reformed Form for the Administration of Baptism is one of the most important of all the secondary confessions of many Reformed churches worldwide. It is certainly the most read in the churches. In its original form dating from the late 1500s, soon after the Protestant Reformation, it received it
The origin of the Reformed baptism form can be traced both to England and to the European continent. During the years after the coronation of Bloody Mary in 1553, the pages of church history record the heartrending stories of ruthless persecution and martyrdom of faithful Protestants in England. Man
The dispute over the covenantal doctrine of the form has not and still today is not driven by simply explaining the words of the form, but by a “clash between system and system” (315). To interpret “sanctified in Christ” as referring to a mere objective, or outward, setting apart is the result of a
And that this truth as expressed in this didactic part of our Baptism Form also applies to the children is evident from the Thanksgiving Prayer. We read: "Almighty God and merciful Father, we thank and praise Thee, that Thou hast forgiven us, and our children, all our sins, through the blood of Thy
This post was written by Mike Feenstra, a member of the Southwest Protestant Reformed Church in Wyoming, Michigan. Mike also teaches fifth grade at a Christian school in West Michigan. If you have a question or comment for Mike, we welcome them in the comment section on the blog. ___________ We co
[1] According to Wielenga in his Reformed Baptism Form commentary, Datheen was the father of the Reformed baptism form (p. 6). Nevertheless, he was not the exclusive author because he profited from older baptism forms such as the forms used in the German Palatinate and the London Refugee Church. Fur
In commenting upon this, we probably ought to observe, first of all, that the fact that we are so very familiar with our Baptism Form may very well be the cause of our failure to appreciate it and to see anything special in it. In the second place, it can hardly be expected that the two forms we hav
Rev. Cammenga is pastor of Southwest Protestant Reformed Church in Grandville, Michigan. In the ceremony of baptism, both of children and of adults, the minister shall use respective forms drawn up for the administration of this sacrament. Church Order, Article 58 Adults are through baptism incor
The Christian Reformed Church, in their Psalter Hymnal (1976, Board of Publications of the C.R.C.), has three baptism forms available for their use. The first one is the same form as ours, except that the parenthetical phrase is omitted. The second is a modernized version of our traditional form. An