The Assembly's Shorter Catechis

1 000.1. THE ASSEMBLY’S SHORTER CATECHISM EXPLAINED, 2 000.2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 3 000.3. QUESTION 85, to the end. 4 000.4. QUESTION 38, What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? containin... 5 000.5. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION 6 001. THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART 7 002. TABLE OF CONTENTS 8 003. QUESTION 92. What is a sacrament? ANSWER: A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Chri... 9 004. THE SHORTER CATECHISM EXPLAINED 10 005. QUESTION 1. What is the chief end of man? 11 006. QUESTION 2. What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him? 12 007. QUESTION 3. What do the scriptures principally teach? 13 008. QUESTION 4. What is God? 14 009. QUESTION 5. Are there more Gods than one? 15 010. QUESTION 6. How many persons are there in the Godhead? 16 011. QUESTION 7. What are the decrees of God? 17 012. QUESTION 8. How does God execute his decrees? 18 013. QUESTION 9. What is the work of creation? 19 014. QUESTION 10. How did God create man? 20 015. QUESTION 11. What are God’s works of providence? 21 016. QUESTION 12. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man, in the estate wher... 22 017. QUESTION 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate in which they were created? 23 018. QUESTION 14. What is sin? 24 019. QUESTION 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they we... 25 020. QUESTION 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression? 26 021. QUESTION 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? 27 022. QUESTION 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? 28 023. QUESTION 19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? 29 024. QUESTION 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? 30 025. QUESTION 21. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect? 31 026. QUESTION 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? 32 027. QUESTION 23. What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer? 33 028. QUESTION 24. How does Christ execute the office of a Prophet? 34 029. QUESTION 25. How does Christ execute the office of a Priest? 35 030. QUESTION 26. How does Christ execute the office of a King? 36 031. QUESTION 27. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist? 37 032. QUESTION 28. Wherein consists Christ’s exaltation? 38 033. QUESTION 29. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? 39 034. QUESTION 30. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? 40 035. QUESTION 31. What is effectual calling? 41 036. QUESTION 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? 42 037. QUESTION 33. What is justification? 43 038. QUESTION 34. What is adoption? 44 039. QUESTION 35. What is sanctification? 45 040. QUESTION 36. What are the benefits which, in this life, do accompany or flow from justificat... 46 041. QUESTION 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? 47 042. QUESTION 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? 48 043. QUESTION 39. What is the duty which God requires of man? 49 044. QUESTION 40. What did God at first reveal to man, for the rule of his obedience? 50 045. QUESTION 41. Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended? 51 046. QUESTION 42. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? 52 047. QUESTION 43. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments? 53 048. QUESTION 44. What does the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us? 54 049. QUESTION 45. Which is the First Commandment? 55 050. QUESTION 46. What is required in the First Commandment? 56 051. QUESTION 47. What is forbidden in the First Commandment? 57 052. QUESTION 48. What are we especially taught by these words BEFORE ME in the First Commandment? 58 053. QUESTION 49. Which is the Second Commandment? 59 054. QUESTION 50. What is required in the Second Commandment? 60 055. QUESTION 51. What is forbidden in the Second Commandment? 61 056. QUESTION 52. What are the reasons annexed to the Second Commandment? 62 057. QUESTION 53. Which is the Third Commandment? 63 058. QUESTION 54. What is required in the Third Commandment? 64 059. QUESTION 55. What is forbidden in the Third Commandment? 65 060. QUESTION 56. What is the reason annexed to the Third Commandment? 66 061. QUESTION 57. Which is the Fourth Commandment? 67 062. QUESTION 58. What is required in the Fourth Commandment? 68 063. QUESTION 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath? 69 064. QUESTION 60. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified? 70 065. QUESTION 61. What is forbidden in the Fourth Commandment? 71 066. QUESTION 62. What are the reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment? 72 067. QUESTION 63. Which is the Fifth Commandment? 73 068. QUESTION 64. What is required in the Fifth Commandment? 74 069. QUESTION 65. What is forbidden in the Fifth Commandment? 75 070. QUESTION 68. What is required in the Sixth Commandment? 76 071. QUESTION 70. What is the Seventh Commandment? 77 072. QUESTION 71. What is required in the Seventh Commandment? 78 073. QUESTION 72. What is forbidden in the Seventh Commandment? 79 074. QUESTION 73. Which is the Eighth Commandment? 80 075. QUESTION 74. What is required in the Eighth Commandment? 81 076. QUESTION 75. What is forbidden in the Eighth Commandment? 82 077. QUESTION 76. Which is the Ninth Commandment? 83 078. QUESTION 77. What is required in the Ninth Commandment? 84 079. QUESTION 78. What is forbidden in the Ninth Commandment? 85 080. QUESTION 79. Which is the Tenth Commandment? 86 081. QUESTION 80. What is required in the Tenth Commandment? 87 082. QUESTION 81. What is forbidden in the Tenth Commandment? 88 083. QUESTION 82. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? 89 084. QUESTION 83. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous? 90 085. QUESTION 84. What doth every sin deserve? 91 086. QUESTION 85. What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us f... 92 087. QUESTION 86. What is faith in Jesus Christ? 93 088. QUESTION 87. What is repentance unto life? 94 089. QUESTION 88. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the ... 95 090. QUESTION 89. How is the word made effectual to salvation? 96 091. QUESTION 90. How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? 97 092. QUESTION 91. How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? 98 093. QUESTION 92. What is a sacrament? 99 094. QUESTION 93. What are the sacraments of the New Testament? 100 095. QUESTION 94. What is baptism? 101 096. QUESTION 95. To whom is baptism to be administered? 102 097. QUESTION 96. What is the Lord’s Supper? 103 098. QUESTION 97. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s supper? 104 099. QUESTION 98. What is prayer? 105 100. QUESTION 99. What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer? 106 101. QUESTION 100. What doth the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us? 107 102. QUESTION 101. What do we pray for in the first petition? 108 103. QUESTION 102. What do we pray for in the second petition? 109 104. QUESTION 103. What do we pray for in the third petition? 110 105. QUESTION 104. What do we pray for in the fourth petition? 111 106. QUESTION 105. What do we pray for in the fifth petition? 112 107. QUESTION 106. What do we pray for in the sixth petition? 113 108. QUESTION 107. What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us? 114 109. HISTORICAL NOTES