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them, to love God, who hath manifested His goodness
to us out of His infinite mercy and without our merit;
yea, to know and to hold Him as our gracious Father,
to do His holy will, and to exercise the things signified
by this sacrament. For they do not only arouse us to
a steadfast faith, but also signify what shall come to
pass with us.–-
"By faith we receive all the benefits promised us in
God’s covenant, not for the sake of the act by which
we are baptized or receive the body and blood of Christ,
but by faith, which accompanies the act and through
which we receive the Holy Spirit, who worketh all
these things. Yet, as this is wrought through outward
and bodily words and sacramental means, the Scriptures
in various places attribute it to the Word and the
sacraments, speaking of the Word as the word of life and
of the physical administration of baptism as the new
birth, although the new birth is the work of the Holy
Spirit alone. Thus we see the fruit and use of this
sacrament, namely, that it revives our faith, on which
depends our salvation. For by faith we become the
children of God, and His heirs, the brothers of Christ
and joint heirs with Him, and become so closely united
with Christ as to be of one body with Him and with all
those who constitute His Church, that is, the communion
of saints.. This is also expressed in the words of the
Apostle Paul (i Cor. 10: 17), that we are all one
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