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#BC41 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, both in soul and body, in the full enjoyment of...
#WSC41 Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended? The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.
#WLC41 Why was our Mediator called Jesus? Our Mediator was called Jesus, because he saveth his people from their sins.
#HC41 Why was he buried? His burial testified that He had really died.
#AOC41 But since that Christ died for us, why must we also die? Our death is not a satisfaction for our Sins, but the abolishing of Sin, and our passage into everlasting Life.
#GC41 Expound this to me more fully? He received the Holy Spirit in full perfection with all His graces, that He may lavish them upon us and distribute them, each according to the measure and portion which the Father knows to be expedien...
#BC42 But what shall be done to the wicked at their death? The souls of the wicked shall, at their death, be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves, till the resurrection and judgment of the great day.
#WSC42 What is the sum of the ten commandments? The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves.
#WLC42 Why was our Mediator called Christ? Our Mediator was called Christ, because he was anointed with the Holy Ghost above measure; and so set apart, and fully furnished with all authority and ability, to execute the offices of prophet, prie...
#HC42 Since Christ has died for us, why do we still have to die? Our death is not a payment for our sins, but it puts an end to sin and is an entrance into eternal life.
#AOC42 What other commodity receive we by the Death of Christ? That by the virtue of his Death our old man is crucified, slain, and buried together with him, (figured out in holy Baptism) that henceforth evil lusts and desires may not reign in us, but we may offe...
#GC42 What does His Kingdom minister to us? By it, we are set at liberty in our conscience and are filled with His spiritual riches in order to live in righteousness and holiness, and we are also armed with power to overcome the devil, the fles...
#BC43 What shall be done to the wicked, at the day of judgment? At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked, being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever.
#WSC43 What is the preface to the ten commandments? The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
#WLC43 How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in his revealing to the church, in all ages, by his Spirit and word, in divers ways of administration, the whole will of God, in all things concerning their e...
#HC43 What further benefit do we receive from Christ’s sacrifice and death on the cross? Through Christ’s death our old nature is crucified, put to death, and buried with Him, so that the evil desires of the flesh may no longer reign in us, but that we may offer ourselves to Him as a sacr...
#AOC43 Why is there added, he descended into Hell? That in my greatest pains and most grevious temptations I may support my self with this comfort, that my Lord Jesus Christ hath delivered me (by the unspeakable distresses, torments and terrors of his...
#GC43 What about His priesthood? First, by means of it He is the Mediator who reconciles us to God His Father; and secondly, through Him we have access to present ourselves to God, and offer Him ourselves in sacrifice with all that b...
#BC44 What is the duty which God requireth of man? The duty which God requireth of man is, obedience to his revealed will.
#WSC44 What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us? The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, That because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments.
#WLC44 How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering himself a sacrifice without spot to God, to be a reconciliation for the sins of his people; and in making continual intercession for them.
#HC44 Why is there added: He descended into hell? In my greatest sorrows and temptations I may be assured and comforted that my Lord Jesus Christ, by His unspeakable anguish, pain, terror, and agony, which He endured throughout all His sufferings but...
#AOC44 What doth the Resurrection of Christ profit us? First, by his Resurrection he vanquished death, that he might make us partakers of that Righteousness which he had gotten us by his death. Again, we are now also stirred up by his Power to a new Life....
#GC44 There remains His Prophetic Office? Since this office was given to the Lord Jesus to be the Master and Teacher of His own, its end is to bring us the true knowledge of the Father and of His Truth, so that we may be scholars in the house...
#BC45 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.
#WSC45 Which is the first commandment? The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
#WLC45 How doth Christ execute the office of a king? Christ executeth the office of a king, in calling out of the world a people to himself, and giving them officers, laws, and censures, by which he visibly governs them; in bestowing saving grace upon h...
#HC45 How does Christ’s resurrection benefit us? First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, so that He could make us share in the righteousness which He had obtained for us by His death. Second, by His power we too are raised up to a new life...
#AOC45 How understand you that he ascended into Heaven? That Christ, his Disciples looking on, was taken up from the Earth into Heaven, and yet still is there for our sakes, and will be until he come again to judge the quick and the dead.
#GC45 You would conclude, then, that the title of Christ includes three offices which God has given His Son, in order to communicate virtue and fruit to His faithful people? That is so.

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