How are we assured of this?
1. Because the Church practised it from the very beginning, which she would not have done, if it had not been agreeable to Christ's institution.
2. Because the benefits of it are such as infants need and are capable of.
Why do infants need to be ingrafted into the Church?
Because out of it there is no promise of salvation.
Why do they need remission of sins?
Because they are born in original sin.
Why do they need the gift of the Holy Ghost?
In order that from the very first their flesh may be controlled by the Spirit.
How do we know that infants are capable of being grafted into the Church and receiving remission of sins?
Because they had both in circumcision.
How do we know that they are capable of receiving the Holy Ghost?
Because John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb.
Article XXVIII.
What is the subject of the twenty-eighth Article?
"The Lord's Supper," or the Holy Eucharist.
What is the first thing the Article declares concerning it?
