Questions & Answers

#BC16 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.
#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.
#WLC16 How did God create angels? God created all the angels spirits, immortal, holy, excelling in knowledge, mighty in power, to execute his commandments, and to praise his name, yet subject to change.
#HC16 Why must He be a true and righteous man? He must be a true man because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which has sinned should pay for sin. He must be a righteous man because one who himself is a sinner cannot pay for...
#AOC16 Wherefore is it necessary that he be very Man, and that perfectly just too? Because that the Justice of God requireth that the same humane nature which hath sinned, do it self likewise make recompence for sin: but he that is himself a sinner, cannot make recompence for others...
#GC16 Recite it. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate...
#BC17 What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
#WSC17 Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
#WLC17 How did God create man? After God had made all other creatures, he created man male and female; formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground, and the woman of the rib of the man, endued them with living, reasonable,...
#HC17 Why must He at the same time be true God? He must be true God so that by the power of His divine nature He might bear in His human nature the burden of God’s wrath, and might obtain for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
#AOC17 Why must he also be very God? That he might by the Power of his Godhead sustain in his flesh the burthen of God’s wrath, and might recover and restore unto us that Righteousness and Life which we lost.
#GC17 In order to expound this confession in detail, into how many parts do we divide it? Into four principal parts.
#BC18 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.
#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...
#WLC18 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; ordering them, and all their actions, to his own glory.
#HC18 But who is that Mediator who at the same time is true God and a true and righteous man? Our Lord Jesus Christ, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption (I Corinthians 1:30).
#AOC18 And who is that Mediatour which is together both very God, and a very perfectly just Man? Even our Lord Jesus Christ, who is made to us of God’s Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification & Redemption.
#GC18 What are they? The first is about God the Father; the second about His Son Jesus Christ, which also includes the whole history of our redemption; the third is about the Holy Spirit; the fourth is about the Church, a...
#BC19 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.
#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.
#WLC19 What is God’s providence towards the angels? God by his providence permitted some of the angels, wilfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation, limiting and ordering that, and all their sins, to his own glory; and established the re...
#HC19 From where do you know this? From the holy gospel, which God Himself first revealed in Paradise. Later, He had it proclaimed by the patriarchs and prophets, and foreshadowed by the sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law. Fina...
#AOC19 Whence knowest thou this? Out of the Gospel which God first made known in Paradise, and afterwards did spread it a broad by the Patriarchs and Prophets: shadowed it by Sacrifices and other Ceremonies of the Law; and lastly acc...
#GC19 Since there is but one God, why do you mention the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who are three? Because in the one essence of God, we have to look on the Father as the beginning and origin, and the first cause of all things; then the Son, who is Eternal Wisdom; and the Holy Spirit who is His vir...
#BC20 Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
#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...
#WLC20 What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created? The providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created, was the placing him in paradise, appointing him to dress it, giving him liberty to eat of the fruit of the earth; putting the cr...
#HC20 Are all men, then, saved by Christ just as they perished through Adam? No. Only those are saved who by a true faith are grafted into Christ and accept all His benefits.
#AOC20 Is then Salvation restored by Christ to all men who perished in Adam? Not to all: but to those only who by a true Faith are ingrafted into him, and receive his benefits.
#GC20 You mean then that there is no objection to our understanding that these three persons are distinctly in one Godhead, that therefore God in not therefore divided? Just so.

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