Q. 17 What do you call the Sacraments?
A. They are visible signs and seals ordained of God for the confirmation of my faith.
Q. 18 How do they confirm your faith?
A. By receiving them as pledges that Christ crucified (represented and offered in them) is given to me in particular to be my Savior.
Q. 19 How many Sacraments are there?
A. Two: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
Q. 20 Why were you baptized as an infant?
A. That thereby I might be ingrafted into Christ, and entered in His Church, which is His mystical Body.
Q. 21 What profit do you have by Baptism now?
A. It seals up the remission of my sins in Christ’s blood’ and advances the renovation of my heart in His Spirit: which are my spiritual washing.
The A, B, C or A Catechism For Young Children: Scotland 1641
Believe it or not… Amen!