Questions & Answers
- #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.
- #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.
- #WLC6 What do the scriptures make known of God? The scriptures make known what God is, the persons in the Godhead, his decrees, and the execution of his decrees.
- #HC6 Did God, then, create man so wicked and perverse? No, on the contrary, God created man good and in His image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that he might rightly know God His Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal...
- #AOC6 Did God then make man so wicked and perverse? Not so, but rather he made him good, and to his own Image; that is, indued with true Righteousness and Holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, and heartily love him, and live with him bl...
- #GC6 What is the true and right knowledge of God? When we know Him in order that we may honour Him.
- #BC7 What is God? God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
- #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.
- #WLC7 What is God? God is a Spirit, in and of himself infinite in being, glory, blessedness, and perfection; all-sufficient, eternal, unchangeable, incomprehensible, everywhere present, almighty, knowing all things, mos...
- #HC7 From where, then, did man’s depraved nature come? From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise, for there our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin.
- #AOC7 Whence then ariseth the wickedness of Mans nature? From the fall and disobedience of our first Parents Adam and Eve: hence is our nature so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in Sin.
- #GC7 How do we honour Him aright? We put our reliance on Him, by serving Him in obedience to His will, by calling upon Him in all our need, seeking salvation and every good thing in Him, and acknowledging with heart and mouth that all...
- #BC8 Are there more gods than one? There is but one only, the living and true God.
- #WSC8 How doth God execute his decrees? God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
- #WLC8 Are there more Gods than one? There is but one only, the living and true God.
- #HC8 But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined to all evil? Yes, unless we are regenerated by the Spirit of God.
- #AOC8 Are we so corrupt that we are not at all apt to do well, and are prone to all vice? Indeed we are, except we are regenerated by the Holy Ghost.
- #GC8 To consider these things in order, and explain them more fully---what is the first point? To rely upon 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.
- #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.
- #WLC9 How many persons are there in the Godhead? There be three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; although distinguished by th...
- #HC9 Is God, then, not unjust by requiring in His law what man cannot do? No, for God so created man that he was able to do it. But man, at the instigation of the devil, in deliberate disobedience robbed himself and all his descendants of these gifts.
- #AOC9 Doth not God then Injury to Man who in the Law requireth that of him which he is not able to perform? No; For God had made Man such a one as he might perform it: but Man by the impulsion of the Devil, and his own stubbornness bereaved himself and all his posterity of those Divine Graces.
- #GC9 How can we do that? First by knowing Him as almighty and perfectly good.
- #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.
- #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.
- #WLC10 What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead? It is proper to the Father to beget the Son, and to the Son to be begotten of the Father, and to the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son from all eternity.
- #HC10 Will God allow such disobedience and apostasy to go unpunished? Certainly not. He is terribly displeased with our original sin as well as our actual sins. Therefore He will punish them by a just judgment both now and eternally, as He has declared: Cursed be every...
- #AOC10 Doth God leave this stubbornness and falling away of Man unpunished? No: but is angry in most dreadful manner, as well for the sins wherein we are born, as also for those which our selves commit, and in most just Judgment punisheth them with present and everlasting Pun...
- #GC10 Is this enough? No.
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