Questions & Answers

#BC51 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.
#WSC51 What is forbidden in the second commandment? The second commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.
#WLC51 What was the estate of Christ’s exaltation? The estate of Christ’s exaltation comprehendeth his resurrection, ascension, sitting at the right hand of the Father, and his coming again to judge the world.
#HC51 How does the glory of Christ, our Head, benefit us? First, by His Holy Spirit He pours out heavenly gifts upon us, His members. Second, by His power He defends and preserves us against all enemies.
#AOC51 What Comfort hast thou by the coming of Christ again to judge the quick and the dead? That in all my Miseries and Persecutions, I look with my Head lifted up, for the very same who before yielded himself unto the Judgment of God for me, and took away all Malediction from me, to come Ju...
#GC51 Was it then required that He should put on our very flesh? Yes, because it was necessary that the disobedience committed by man against God should be redressed in human nature. And moreover He could not otherwise be our Mediator to reconcile us to God His Fat...
#BC52 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 unto him alone.
#WSC52 What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment? The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God’s sovereignty over us, his propriety in us, and the zeal he hath to his own worship.
#WLC52 How was Christ exalted in his resurrection? Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death (of which it was not possible for him to be held), and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the ess...
#HC52 What comfort is it to you that Christ will come to judge the living and the dead? In all my sorrow and persecution I lift up my head and eagerly await as judge from heaven the very same person who before has submitted Himself to the judgment of God for my sake, and has removed all...
#AOC52 What believest thou concerning the Holy Ghost? First, that He is true and Coeternal God, with the eternal Father, and the Son; secondly, that he is also given unto me, to make me, through a true Faith, Partaker of Christ and all his Benefits, to c...
#GC52 You say that Christ had to become man, to fulfill the office of Saviour, as in our very person? Yes, indeed. For we must recover in Him all that we lack in ourselves, and this cannot be done in any other way.
#BC53 What are we especially 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.
#WSC53 Which is the third commandment? The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
#WLC53 How was Christ exalted in his ascension? Christ was exalted in his ascension, in that having after his resurrection often appeared unto and conversed with his apostles, speaking to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, and giv...
#HC53 What do you believe concerning the Holy Spirit? First, He is, together with the Father and the Son, true and eternal God. Second, He is also given to me, to make me by true faith share in Christ and all His benefits, to comfort me, and to remain wi...
#AOC53 What believest thou concerning the Holy and Catholick Church of Christ? I believe that the Son of God doth from the beginning of the World to the End thereof, gather, defend, and preserve unto himself by his Spirit and Word, out of whole Mankind, a Company chosen to everl...
#GC53 But why was that effected by the Holy Spirit, and not by the work of man according to the order of nature? As the seed of man is in itself corrupt, it was necessary that the power of the Holy Spirit should intervene in this conception, in order to preserve our Lord from all corruption, and to fill Him with...
#BC54 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...
#WSC54 What is required in the third commandment? The third commandment requireth the holy and reverend use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.
#WLC54 How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God? Christ is exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God, in that as God-man he is advanced to the highest favor with God the Father, with all fulness of joy, glory, and power over all things in heav...
#HC54 What do you believe concerning the holy catholic Christian church? I believe that the Son of God, out of the whole human race, from the beginning of the world to its end, gathers, defends, and preserves for Himself, by His Spirit and Word, in the unity of the true fa...
#AOC54 What mean those words, The Communion of Saints? First, that all and every one who believeth, are in common Partakers of Christ and all his Graces, as being his Members; and then that every one ought readily and chearfully to bestow the Gifts and Gr...
#GC54 Thus we are shown that He who is to sanctify others was free from every stain, and from His mother's womb He was consecrated to God in purity from the very beginning, in order that He may not be subject to the universal corruption of the human race? So I understand it.
#BC55 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.
#WSC55 What is forbidden in the third commandment? The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.
#WLC55 How doth Christ make intercession? Christ maketh intercession, by his appearing in our nature continually before the Father in heaven, in the merit of his obedience and sacrifice on earth, declaring his will to have it applied to all b...
#HC55 What do you understand by the communion of saints? First, that believers, all and everyone, as members of Christ have communion with Him and share in all His treasures and gifts. Second, that everyone is duty-bound to use his gifts readily and cheerfu...
#AOC55 What believest thou concerning Remission of Sins? That God, for the Satisfaction made by Christ, hath put out all the Remembrance of my Sins, and also of that Corruption within me wherewith I must fight all my life time, and doth freely indow me with...
#GC55 Why do you go immediately from His birth to His death, passing over the whole history of His life? Because nothing is said here about what belongs properly to the substance of our redemption.

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