Questions & Answers

#BC91 What is faith in Jesus Christ? Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.
#WSC91 How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by...
#WLC91 What is the duty which God requireth of man? The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.
#HC91 But what are good works? Only those which are done out of true faith, in accordance with the law of God, and to His glory, and not those based on our own opinion or on precepts of men.
#AOC91 How ought this Ordinance of the Lords Supper to be closed? In singing Praises to God vocally and audibly for his great Benefits and Blessings to his Church in the shedding of the most precious Blood of his Son to take away their Sin; which Blessings are point...
#GC91 This requires a clearer explanation? I mean that the Holy Spirit, while He dwells in our hearts, makes us feel the virtue of our Lord Jesus (Rom 5:5). For He enlightens us to know His benefits; He seals and imprints them in our souls, an...
#BC92 What is repentance unto life? Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God,...
#WSC92 What is a sacrament? A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ; wherein, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.
#WLC92 What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience? The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, besides a special command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was the m...
#HC92 What is the law of the LORD? God spoke all these words, saying: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 1. You shall have no other gods before Me. 2. You shall not make for y...
#AOC92 You told us but now, that those who in Confession and Life declare themselves to be Infidels, profane and ungodly, should by the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven be driven from this Supper: what are the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven? Preaching of the Gospel and Ecclesiastical Discipline, by which Heaven is opened to the Believers, and is shut against the Unbelievers.
#GC92 What follows? The fourth part, where it is said that we believe in the Catholic Church.
#BC93 What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption are his ordinances, especially the word, baptism, the Lord’s supper, and prayer; all which means are made e...
#WSC93 Which are the sacraments of the New Testament? The sacraments of the New Testament are, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.
#WLC93 What is the moral law? The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding everyone to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of t...
#HC93 How are these commandments divided? Into two parts. The first teaches us how to live in relation to God; the second, what duties we owe our neighbour.
#AOC93 How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by preaching of the Gospel? When by the Commandment of Christ it is publickly declared to all and every one of the Faithful, that all their Sins are pardoned them of God for the Merit of Christ, so often as they imbrace by a liv...
#GC93 What is the Catholic Church? The community of the faithful which God has ordained and elected to eternal life.
#BC94 How is the word made effectual to salvation? The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith u...
#WSC94 What is Baptism? Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits...
#WLC94 Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall? Although no man, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law; yet there is great use thereof, as well common to all men, as peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regene...
#HC94 What does the LORD require in the first commandment? That for the sake of my very salvation I avoid and flee all idolatry, witchcraft, superstition, and prayer to saints or to other creatures. Further, that I rightly come to know the only true God. trus...
#AOC94 How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by Ecclesiastical Discipline? When according to the Commandments of Christ, they who in Name are Christians, but in their Doctrine and life shew themselves Aliens from Christ, after they have been some time admonished, will not de...
#GC94 Is it necessary to believe this article? Yes, indeed, unless we want to make the death of Christ of none effect, and all that has already been said. The fruit that proceeds from it is the Church.
#BC95 How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? That the word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives...
#WSC95 To whom is Baptism to be administered? Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible church...
#WLC95 Of what use is the moral law to all men? The moral law is of use to all men, to inform them of the holy nature and will of God, and of their duty, binding them to walk accordingly; to convince them of their disability to keep it, and of the...
#HC95 What is idolatry? Idolatry is having or inventing something in which to put our trust instead of, or in addition to, the only true God who has revealed Himself in His Word.
#AOC95 Whereas we are delivered from all our Sins and Miseries without any Merit of ours, by the Mercy of God, only for Christ’s sake; for what cause are we to do good Works? Because, after that Christ hath redeemed us with his Blood, he reneweth us also by his Spirit to the Image of himself, that we receiving so great Benefits, should shew our selves all our life time tha...
#GC95 You mean then that up to this point we have spoken of the cause and foundation of salvation, how God has received us in love through the mediation of Jesus, and has confirmed this grace in us through His Holy? Spirit. But now the effect and fulfillment of all this is explained in order to give us greater certainty. It is so.

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