Questions & Answers

#BC36 What is justification? Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith al...
#WSC36 What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience joy in the Holy Ghost increase of grace and per...
#WLC36 Who is the Mediator of the covenant of grace? The only Mediator of the covenant of grace is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, of one substance and equal with the Father, in the fulness of time became man, and so was and co...
#HC36 What benefit do you receive from the holy conception and birth of Christ? He is our Mediator, and with His innocence and perfect holiness covers, in the sight of God, my sin, in which I was conceived and born.
#AOC36 What believest thou when thou sayest he suffered. That he all the time of his life which he lead in the Earth, but especially at the end thereof, sustained the wrath of God, both in body and soul, against the sin of mankind, that he might by his pass...
#GC36 But with what kind of oil was He anointed? Not with visible oil as was used for ancient kings, priests, and prophets, but this anointing was by the grace of the Holy Spirit, who is the reality signified by that outward anointing made in time p...
#BC37 What is adoption? Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.
#WSC37 What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory and their bodies, being still united to Christ do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
#WLC37 How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? Christ the Son of God became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance, and born of...
#HC37 What do you confess when you say that He suffered? During all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end, Christ bore in body and soul the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race. Thus, by His suffering, as the only atoning sac...
#AOC37 For what cause should he suffer under Pilate, as being his Judg? That he being innocent and condemned before a civil Judg might deliver us from the severe Judgment of God which remained for all men.
#GC37 But what is this Kingdom of which you speak? It is spiritual, and consists in the Word and Spirit of God, and includes righteousness and life.
#BC38 What is sanctification? Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.
#WSC38 What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
#WLC38 Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God? It was requisite that the Mediator should be God, that he might sustain and keep the human nature from sinking under the infinite wrath of God, and the power of death; give worth and efficacy to his s...
#HC38 Why did He suffer under Pontius Pilate as judge? Though innocent, Christ was condemned by an earthly judge, and so He freed us from the severe judgment of God that was to fall on us.
#AOC38 But is there any more in it, that he was fastened to the Cross, than if he had suffered any other kind of death? There is more: for by this I am assured that he took upon himself the curse which did ly on me; for the death of the Cross was accursed of God.
#GC38 What of the priesthood? It is the office and prerogative of presenting Himself before God to obtain grace and favour, and appease His wrath in offering a sacrifice which is acceptable to Him.
#BC39 What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification? The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, increase of grace, and...
#WSC39 What is the duty which God requireth of man? The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.
#WLC39 Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man? It was requisite that the Mediator should be man, that he might advance our nature, perform obedience to the law, suffer and make intercession for us in our nature, have a fellow feeling of our infirm...
#HC39 Does it have a special meaning that Christ was crucified and did not die in a different way? Yes. Thereby I am assured that He took upon Himself the curse which lay on me, for a crucified one was cursed by God.
#AOC39 Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself unto death? Because the Justice and Truth of God could by no other means be satisfied for our sins, but by the very death of the Son of God.
#GC39 In what sense do you call Christ a Prophet? Because on coming down into the world (Isa 7:14) He was the sovereign messenger and ambassador of God His Father, to give full exposition of God's will toward the world and so put an end to all prophe...
#BC40 What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
#WSC40 What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law.
#WLC40 Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person? It was requisite that the Mediator, who was to reconcile God and man, should himself be both God and man, and this in one person, that the proper works of each nature might be accepted of God for us,...
#HC40 Why was it necessary for Christ to humble Himself even unto death? Because of the justice and truth of God satisfaction for our sins could be made in no other way than by the death of the Son of God.
#AOC40 To what end was he buried also? That thereby he might manifest that he was dead indeed.
#GC40 But do you derive any benefit from this? All this is for our good. For Jesus Christ has received all these gifts in order that He may communicate them to us, and that all of us may receive out of His fullness.

Showing 211 - 240 of 1075