Of the Benefits of BAPTISM; or, the Mercies afforded on God's Part.

Queft. WHAT is your Name?

Anfw. N. or M.

Q. What do you call this Name which you answer by?

A. I call it my Chriftian Name.

Q. Why do you call it your Chriftian Name ?

A. Because it was given me when I was made a Chriftian.

Q: Why are you here afked this Name?

A. To put me in mind of the Faith I profeffed, and the Vows that I made at my Baptifm, when this Name was given me. Q. Who gave you this Name?

4. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptifm; wherein I was made a Member of Chrift, the Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Q. Why did your Godfathers and Godmothers give you your Christian Name? A. Becaufe they prefented me to my Baptifm, and gave Security to the Church Chriftian Education.

for my

Q. What are the Privileges you receive by being baptifed?

4. I am thereby made a Member of Chrift, a Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven."

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Q. Why are you faid to be MADE a Member of Chrift, a Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven? .A. Becaufe I was not fo born, but MADE fo by Baptifm.

Q. How do you prove this by Scripture?

A. By Eph. ii. 3. "And were by na"ture the children of wrath."

Jahn i. 12, 13. "As many as received him, to them gave he power [privilege]

to become the fons of God: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the "flesh, nor of the will of man, but of "God."

John iii. 5, 6. " Except a man be born "of water and of the Spirit, he cannot en*ter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is fleth."

Q. What is it to be a Member of Chrift? d. It is to be a Member of Christ's Church, and thereby united to Christ as our Head.

Q. Why is a Member of Chrift's. Church faid to be a Member of Chrift?

A. Because the Church is called the Body of Chrift, and Chrift is called the Head of that Body.

Where is the Church called the Body of Chrift, and Chrift the Head of the Church?

A. In Eph. i. 22, 23. The church, "which is his body."

Eph. v. 23. "Chrift is the head of the

**church."

Q. How do you prove, that by Baptifm You are made a Member of Christ's Church? A. Becaufe Chrift appointed, and his Apoftles always ufed Baptifmr, as the way of admittance into the Church.

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Q. What is it to be a Child of God? A. It is to be one whom God in an efpecial manuer loves, as a Father does his Child.

Q. Why are you firft faid to be a Member of Chrift, and then a Child of God? A. Because it is through Chrift that I am made a Child of God.

Q. How do you prove from Scripture, that by Baptifm you were made a Child of God?

"Ye have re

A. From Rom. viii. 15. "ceived the fpirit of adoption, whereby "we cry Abba, Father.'

Gal. iii. 26, 27. "Ye are all the chil"dren of God by faith in Chrift Jefus : for as many of you as have been bap "tized into Chrift, have put on Chrift.' Q. What is it to be an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven?

A. It is to be fo by Promife; fo that I may furely, by leading a Chriftian Life, have the poffeffion of an eternal Inherit

ance.

Q. How is this proved by Scripture? A. From Luke xii. 32. "Fear not, lit "tle flock; for it is your Father's good pleafure to give you the kingdom."

Rom. viii. 16, 17. "We are the chil

"dren of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Chrift."

1 John ii. 25. " And this is the promife that he hath promifed us, even "eternal life."

SECT. II.

"Of the Vow of Baptifm: or, the Conditions requid on our Part.

QYOU have told me what Privileges you have by being baptized; but

cannot you forfeit them?

A. Yes, I may lose them, if I do not keep the Promifes made for me when I was baptized.

Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you?

A. They did promife and vow three Things in my Name. First, That I should renounce the Devil and all his Works, the Pomps and Vanity of this wicked World, and all the finful Lufts of the Flefo. Se.. ,condly, That I fhould believe all the Articles of the Chriftian Faith. And thirdly, That Ifhould keep God's holy Will and Commandments, and walk in the fame all the Days* of my Life.