Questions & Answers

#BC46 Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.
#WSC46 What is required in the first commandment? The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.
#WLC46 What was the estate of Christ’s humiliation? The estate of Christ’s humiliation was that low condition, wherein he for our sakes, emptying himself of his glory, took upon him the form of a servant, in his conception and birth, life, death, and a...
#HC46 What do you confess when you say, He ascended into heaven? That Christ, before the eyes of His disciples, was taken up from the earth into heaven, and that He is there for our benefit until He comes again to judge the living and the dead.
#AOC46 Is not Christ with us then until the end of the World, as he hath promised? Christ is true God, and true Man, and so according to his Manhood is not now on Earth, but according to his Godhead, his Majesty, his Grace, and Spirit is at no time from us.
#GC46 Why do you call Him the only Son of God, seeing that God calls us all His children? We are children of God not by nature, but only by adoption and by grace, in that God wills to regard us as such (Eph 1:5). But the Lord Jesus who was begotten of the substance of His Father, and is of...
#BC47 What is the sum of the ten commandments? The sum of the ten commandments is, to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves.
#WSC47 What is forbidden in the first commandment? The first commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God as God, and our God; and the giving of that worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone.
#WLC47 How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth? Christ humbled himself in his conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, he was pleased in the fulness of time to become the son of man, made of...
#HC47 Is Christ, then, not with us until the end of the world, as He has promised us? Christ is true man and true God. With respect to His human nature He is no longer on earth,[2] but with respect to His divinity, majesty, grace, and Spirit He is never absent from us.[3]
#AOC47 Are not by this means the two natures in Christ pulled assunder, if his Humanity be not wheresoever his Divinity is? No; for seeing his Divinity is incomprehensible, and every where present, it followeth necessarily that the same is without the bounds of his humane Nature which he took unto him, and yet is neverthel...
#GC47 You mean to say, then, that this honour is proper to Him alone, and belongs to Him by nature, but is communicated to us through a gracious gift, in that we are His numbers? That is so. Hence in regard to this communication He is called elsewhere "the First-born among many brethren" (Rom 8:29; Col 1:15).
#BC48 What is the preface to the ten commandments? The preface to the ten commandments is in these words; I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
#WSC48 What are we specially taught by these words, ‘before me’, in the first commandment? These words, before me, in the first commandment teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God.
#WLC48 How did Christ humble himself in his life? Christ humbled himself in his life, by subjecting himself to the law, which he perfectly fulfilled; and by conflicting with the indignities of the world, temptations of Satan, and infirmities in his f...
#HC48 But are the two natures in Christ not separated from each other if His human nature is not present wherever His divinity is? Not at all, for His divinity has no limits and is present everywhere. So it must follow that His divinity is indeed beyond the human nature which He has taken on and nevertheless is within this human...
#AOC48 What Fruit doth the Ascension of Christ into Heaven bring unto us? First that he maketh Intercession to his Father in Heaven for us; next that we have our Flesh in Heaven, that we may be confirmed thereby, as by a sure Pledge, that it shall come to passe that he who...
#GC48 How is He "our Lord" Because He is appointed by the Father to have us under His government, to administer the Kingdom and the Lordship of God in heaven and on earth, and to be the Head of men and believers (Eph 5:23; Col...
#BC49 What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us? The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us that because God is the Lord, and our God and redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments.
#WSC49 Which is the second commandment? The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
#WLC49 How did Christ humble himself in his death? Christ humbled himself in his death, in that having been betrayed by Judas, forsaken by his disciples, scorned and rejected by the world, condemned by Pilate, and tormented by his persecutors; having...
#HC49 How does Christ’s ascension into heaven benefit us? First, He is our Advocate in heaven before His Father. Second, we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that He, our Head, will also take us, His members, up to Himself. Third, He sends us His Spi...
#AOC49 Why is it further said, he sitteth at the Right-Hand of God? Because Christ therefore is ascended into Heaven, to shew there that he is the Head of his Church, by whom the Father governeth all things.
#GC49 What is meant by what follows? It declares how the Son of God was anointed by the Father to be our Saviour. That is to say, He assumed human flesh, and accomplished all things necessary to our salvation, as enunciated here.
#BC50 Which is the first commandment? The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
#WSC50 What is required in the second commandment? The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word.
#WLC50 Wherein consisted Christ’s humiliation after his death? Christ’s humiliation after his death consisted in his being buried, and continuing in the state of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day; which hath been otherwise expressed in the...
#HC50 Why is it added, And sits at the right hand of God? Christ ascended into heaven to manifest Himself there as Head of His Church, through whom the Father governs all things.
#AOC50 What profit is this Glory of our Head Christ unto us? First, that through his Holy Spirit he poureth upon us his Members heavenly Graces, then that he shieldeth and defendeth us by his Power against all our Enemies.
#GC50 What do you mean by the two clauses, "Conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary" That He was formed in womb of the Virgin Mary, of her proper substance, to be the seed of David, as had been foretold (Ps 132:11), and yet that this was wrought by the miraculous operation of the Holy...

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