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Of Baptism

Section 29.3

Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.

See also in WCF: 27.1 Compare: Of the Sacraments, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper
Heb. 9:10, 19, 20, 21, 22
[10] but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation. [19] For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, [20] saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” [21] And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. [22] Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Acts 2:41
[41] So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 16:33
[33] And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.
Mark 7:4
[4] and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches. )
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29.2 29.4

Chapter 29: Of Baptism

The sacrament of baptism and its administration

Of Baptism

Section 29.1

Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ to be unto the party baptised a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ to walk in newness of life; which ordinance is by Christ's own appointment to be continued in his Church until the end of the world.

Of Baptism

Section 29.2

The outward element to be used in this ordinance, is water, wherewith the party is to be baptised in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a minister of the gospel lawfully called.

Of Baptism

Section 29.3

Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.

Of Baptism

Section 29.4

Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptised, and those only.

Of Baptism

Section 29.5

Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance, yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it, as that no person can be regenerated or saved without it; or that all that are baptised are undoubtedly regenerated.

Of Baptism

Section 29.6

The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered; yet notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance, the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghost to such (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will in his appointed time.

Of Baptism

Section 29.7

Baptism is but once to be administered to any person.