- #BC1 Who is the first and chiefest being? God is the first and chiefest being.
- #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.
- #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.
- #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.
- #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.
- #BC6 What things are chiefly contained in the holy scriptures? The holy scriptures chiefly contain what man ought to believe concerning God, and what duty God requireth of man.
- #BC7 What is God? God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
- #BC8 Are there more gods than one? There is but one only, the living and true God.
- #BC9 How many persons are there in the Godhead? There are three persons in the godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one God, the same in essence, equal in power and glory.
- #BC10 What are the decrees of God? The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
- #BC11 How doth God execute his decrees? God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
- #BC12 What is the work of creation? The work of creation is God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
- #BC13 How did God create man? God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
- #BC14 What are God’s works of providence? God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.
- #BC15 What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created? When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.
- #BC16 Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
- #BC17 What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
- #BC18 What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created? The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.
- #BC19 Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression? The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.
- #BC20 Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
- #BC21 Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called origin...
- #BC22 What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.
- #BC23 Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? God having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring the...
- #BC24 Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect? The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ; who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was and continueth to be God and man in two distinct natures, and one person for ever.
- #BC25 How did Christ, being the Son of God become man? Christ the Son of God became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul; being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without s...
- #BC26 What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer? Christ as our Redeemer executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.
- #BC27 How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? Christ executeth the office of prophet in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
- #BC28 How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? Christ executeth the office of priest in his once offering up himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.
- #BC29 How doth Christ execute the office of king? Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling, and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.
- #BC30 Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist? Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being b...
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