Questions & Answers
- #BC1 Who is the first and chiefest being? God is the first and chiefest being.
- #WSC1 What is the chief end of man? Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
- #WLC1 What is the chief and highest end of man? Man’s chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him forever.
- #HC1 What is your only comfort in life and death? That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood, and has set me free from...
- #AOC1 What is thy only comfort in Life and Death? That both in Soul and Body, whether I live or dye, I am not mine own, but belong wholly unto my most faithful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: who by his most precious Blood fully satisfying for all my...
- #GC1 What is the chief end of human life? To know God.
- #BC2 Ought everyone to believe there is a God? Everyone ought to believe there is a God; and it is their great sin and folly who do not.
- #WSC2 What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him? The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.
- #WLC2 How doth it appear that there is a God? The very light of nature in man, and the works of God, declare plainly that there is a God; but his word and Spirit only do sufficiently and effectually reveal him unto men for their salvation.
- #HC2 What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of this comfort? First, how great my sins and misery are; second, how I am delivered from all my sins and misery; third, how I am to be thankful to God for such deliverance.
- #AOC2 How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou injoying this comfort mayst live and dye happily? Three. The first, what is the greatness of my sin and misery. The second, how I am delivered from all Sin and Misery. The third, what thanks I owe unto God for this delivery.
- #GC2 Why do you say that? Because He created us and placed us in this world to be glorified in us. And it is indeed right that our life, of which He Himself is the beginning, should be devoted to His glory.
- #BC3 How may we know there is a God? The light of nature in man and the works of God plainly declare there is a God; but his word and Spirit only do it fully and effectually for the salvation of sinners.
- #WSC3 What do the Scriptures principally teach? The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
- #WLC3 What is the word of God? The holy scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the word of God, the only rule of faith and obedience.
- #HC3 From where do you know your sins and misery? From the law of God.
- #AOC3 Whence knowest thou thy misery? Out of the Law of God.
- #GC3 What is the sovereign good of man? The same thing.
- #BC4 What is the word of God? The holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the word of God, and the only certain rule of faith and obedience.
- #WSC4 What is God? God is a Spirit infinite eternal and unchangeable in his being wisdom power holiness justice, goodness, and truth.
- #WLC4 How doth it appear that the scriptures are the word of God? The scriptures manifest themselves to be the word of God, by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light an...
- #HC4 What does God’s law require of us? Christ teaches us this in a summary in Matthew 22: You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a...
- #AOC4 What doth the Law of God require of us? That which Christ doth summarily teach us, Matthew 22:37–40. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Mind, and with all thy Strength. This is the f...
- #GC4 Why do you hold that to be the sovereign good? Because without it our condition is more miserable than that of brute-beasts.
- #BC5 May all men make use of the holy scriptures? All men are not only permitted, but commanded and exhorted to read, hear, and understand the holy scriptures.
- #WSC5 Are there more Gods than one? There is but one only, the living and true God.
- #WLC5 What do the scriptures principally teach? The scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
- #HC5 Can you keep all this perfectly? No, I am inclined by nature to hate God and my neighbour.
- #AOC5 Art thou able to keep all these things perfectly? No truly: for by nature I am prone to the hatred of God, and of my Neighbours.
- #GC5 Hence, then, we see that nothing worse can happen to a man than to live without God? It is so.
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