- #WSC1 What is the chief end of man? Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
- #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.
- #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.
- #WSC4 What is God? God is a Spirit infinite eternal and unchangeable in his being wisdom power holiness justice, goodness, and truth.
- #WSC5 Are there more Gods than one? There is but one only, the living and true God.
- #WSC6 How many persons are there in the Godhead? There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
- #WSC7 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.
- #WSC8 How doth God execute his decrees? God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
- #WSC9 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.
- #WSC10 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.
- #WSC11 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.
- #WSC12 What special act of providence did God exercise toward 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.
- #WSC13 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.
- #WSC14 What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
- #WSC15 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.
- #WSC16 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.
- #WSC17 Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
- #WSC18 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...
- #WSC19 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.
- #WSC20 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...
- #WSC21 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, forever.
- #WSC22 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 Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her yet without s...
- #WSC23 What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer? Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.
- #WSC24 How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit the will of God for our salvation.
- #WSC25 How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God and in making continual intercession for us.
- #WSC26 How doth Christ execute the office of a 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.
- #WSC27 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 buried...
- #WSC28 Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation? Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day in ascending up into heaven in sitting at the right hand of God the Father and in coming to judge the world at the las...
- #WSC29 How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.
- #WSC30 How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.
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