A Puritan Catechism (1855)

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• Preface
• Q1What is the chief end of man?
• Q2What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him?
• Q3What do the Scriptures principally teach?
• Q4What is God?
• Q5Are there more Gods than one?
• Q6How many persons are there in the Godhead?
• Q7What are the decrees of God?
• Q8How does God execute his decrees?
• Q9What is the work of creation?
• Q10How did God create man?
• Q11What are God's works of providence?
• Q12What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created?
• Q13Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were created?
• Q14What is sin?
• Q15Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
• Q16Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
• Q17Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?
• Q18What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?
• Q19Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?
• Q20Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
• Q21How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
• Q22What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
• Q23How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
• Q24How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
• Q25How does Christ execute the office of a king?
• Q26Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
• Q27Wherein consists Christ's exaltation?
• Q28How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
• Q29How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
• Q30What is effectual calling?
• Q31What benefits do they who are effectually called, partake of in this life?
• Q32What is justification?
• Q33What is adoption?
• Q34What is sanctification?
• Q35What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
• Q36What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?
• Q37What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
• Q38What shall be done to the wicked at their death?
• Q39What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
• Q40What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
• Q41What is the sum of the ten commandments?
• Q42Which is the first commandment?
• Q43What is required in the first commandment?
• Q44Which is the second commandment?
• Q45What is required in the second commandment?
• Q46What is forbidden in the second commandment?
• Q47Which is the third commandment?
• Q48What is required in the third commandment?
• Q49Which is the fourth commandment?
• Q50What is required in the fourth commandment?
• Q51How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
• Q52Which is the fifth commandment?
• Q53What is required in the fifth commandment?
• Q54What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
• Q55Which is the sixth commandment?
• Q56What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
• Q57Which is the seventh commandment?
• Q58What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
• Q59Which is the eighth commandment?
• Q60What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
• Q61Which is the ninth commandment?
• Q62What is required in the ninth commandment?
• Q63What is the tenth commandment?
• Q64What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
• Q65Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
• Q66Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
• Q67What does every sin deserve?
• Q68How may we escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
• Q69What is faith in Jesus Christ?
• Q70What is repentance to life?
• Q71What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
• Q72How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
• Q73How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?
• Q74How do Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually helpful?
• Q75What is Baptism?
• Q76To whom is Baptism to be administered?
• Q77Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptised?
• Q78How is baptism rightly administered?
• Q79What is the duty of such as are rightly baptized?
• Q80What is the Lord's Supper?
• Q81What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?
• Q82What is meant by the words, "until he come," which are used by the apostle Paul in reference to the Lord's Supper?