The Westminster Larger Catechism (1648)

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• Q1What is the chief and highest end of man?
• Q2How doth it appear that there is a God?
• Q3What is the word of God?
• Q4How doth it appear that the scriptures are of the word of God?
• Q5What do the scriptures principally teach?
• Q6What do the scriptures make known of God?
• Q7What is God?
• Q8Are there more Gods than one?
• Q9How many persons are there in the Godhead?
• Q10What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead?
• Q11How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father?
• Q12What are the decrees of God?
• Q13What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?
• Q14How doth God execute his decrees?
• Q15What is the work of creation?
• Q16How did God create angels?
• Q17How did God create man?
• Q18What are God’ s works of providence?
• Q19What is God’s providence towards the angels?
• Q20What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created?
• Q21Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?
• Q22Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
• Q23Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
• Q24What is sin?
• Q25Wherein consisteth the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
• Q26How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
• Q27What misery did the fall bring upon mankind?
• Q28What are the punishments of sin in this world?
• Q29What are the punishments of sin in the world to come?
• Q30Doth God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
• Q31With whom was the covenant of grace made?
• Q32How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant?
• Q33Was the covenant of grace always administered after one and the same manner?
• Q34How was the covenant of grace administered under the Old Testament?
• Q35How is the covenant of grace administered under the New Testament?
• Q36Who is the Mediator of the covenant of grace?
• Q37How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
• Q38Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God?
• Q39Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man?
• Q40Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person?
• Q41Why was our Mediator called Jesus?
• Q42Why was our Mediator called Christ?
• Q43How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
• Q44How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
• Q45How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
• Q46What was the estate of Christ’ s humiliation?
• Q47How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
• Q48How did Christ humble himself in his life?
• Q49How did Christ humble himself in his death?
• Q50Wherein consisted Christ’ s humiliation after his death?
• Q51What was the estate of Christ’ s exaltation?
• Q52How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?
• Q53How was Christ exalted in his ascension?
• Q54How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God?
• Q55How does Christ make intercession?
• Q56How is Christ to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world?
• Q57What benefits has Christ procured by his mediation?
• Q58How do we come to be made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured?
• Q59Who are made partakers of redemption through Christ?
• Q60Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, besaved by their living according to the light of nature?
• Q61Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church?
• Q62What is the visible church?
• Q63What are the special privileges of the visible church?
• Q64What is the invisible church?
• Q65What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ?
• Q66What is that union which the elect have with Christ?
• Q67What is effectual calling?
• Q68Are the elect only effectually called?
• Q69What is the communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?
• Q70What is justification?
• Q71How is justification an act of God’ s free grace?
• Q72What is justifying faith?
• Q73How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?
• Q74What is adoption?
• Q75What is sanctification?
• Q76What is repentance unto life?
• Q77Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?
• Q78Whence ariseth the imperfection of sanctification in believers?
• Q79May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace?
• Q80Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace, and that they shall persevere therein unto salvation?
• Q81Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved?
• Q82What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?
• Q83What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy in thislife?
• Q84Shall all men die?
• Q85Death, being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?
• Q86What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death?
• Q87What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?
• Q88What shall immediately follow after the resurrection?
• Q89What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
• Q90What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?
• Q91What is the duty which God requireth of man?
• Q92What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience?
• Q93What is the moral law?
• Q94Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall?
• Q95Of what use is the moral law to all men?
• Q96What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men?
• Q97What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?
• Q98Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
• Q99What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the ten commandments?
• Q100What special things are we to consider in the ten commandments?
• Q101What is the preface to the ten commandments?
• Q102What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God?
• Q103Which is the first commandment?
• Q104What are the duties required in the first commandment?
• Q105What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?
• Q106What are we specially taught by these words [before me] in the first commandment?
• Q107Which is the second commandment?
• Q108What are the duties required in the second commandment?
• Q109What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment?
• Q110What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?
• Q111Which is the third commandment?
• Q112What is required in the third commandment?
• Q113What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?
• Q114What reasons are annexed to the third commandment?
• Q115Which is the fourth commandment?
• Q116What is required in the fourth commandment?
• Q117How is the sabbath or the Lord’s day to be sanctified?
• Q118Why is the charge of keeping the sabbath more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors?
• Q119What are the sins forbidden in the fourth commandment?
• Q120What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it?
• Q121Why is the Word Remember set in the beginning of the fourth commandment?
• Q122What is the sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man?
• Q123Which is the fifth commandment?
• Q124Who are meant by father and mother in the fifth commandment?
• Q125Why are superiors styled Father and Mother?
• Q126What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?
• Q127What is the honour that inferiors owe to their superiors?
• Q128What are the sins of inferiors against their superiors?
• Q129What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?
• Q130What are the sins of superiors?
• Q131What are the duties of equals?
• Q132What are the sins of equals?
• Q133What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it?
• Q134Which is the sixth commandment?
• Q135What are the duties required in the sixth commandment?
• Q136What are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment?
• Q137Which is the seventh commandment?
• Q138What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
• Q139What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
• Q140Which is the eighth commandment?
• Q141What are the duties required in the eighth commandment?
• Q142What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment?
• Q143Which is the ninth commandment?
• Q144What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?
• Q145What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
• Q146Which is the tenth commandment?
• Q147What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?
• Q148What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?
• Q149Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
• Q150Are all transgressions of the law of God equally heinous in themselves, and in the sight of God?
• Q151What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?
• Q152What doth every sin deserve at the hands of God?
• Q153What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us by reason of the transgression of the law?
• Q154What are the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of his mediation?
• Q155How is the word made effectual to salvation?
• Q156Is the word of God to be read by all?
• Q157How is the word of God to be read?
• Q158By whom is the word of God to be preached?
• Q159How is the word of God to be preached by those that are called thereunto?
• Q160What is required of those that hear the word preached?
• Q161How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
• Q162What is a sacrament?
• Q163What are the parts of the sacrament?
• Q164How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the New Testament?
• Q165What is Baptism?
• Q166Unto whom is baptism to be administered?
• Q167How is our baptism to be improved by us?
• Q168What is the Lord’ s supper?
• Q169How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the sacrament of the Lord’ s supper?
• Q170How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord’ s supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?
• Q171How are they that receive the sacrament of the Lord’ s supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it?
• Q172May one who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation, come to the Lord’ s supper?
• Q173May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the Lord’ s supper, be kept from it?
• Q174What is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord’ s supper in the time of the administration of it?
• Q175What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament of the Lord’ s supper?
• Q176Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’ s supper agree?
• Q177Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’ s supper differ?
• Q178What is prayer?
• Q179Are we to pray unto God only?
• Q180What is it to pray in the name of Christ?
• Q181Why are we to pray in the name of Christ?
• Q182How doth the Spirit help us to pray?
• Q183For whom are we to pray?
• Q184For what things are we to pray?
• Q185How are we to pray?
• Q186What rule hath God given for our direction in the duty of prayer?
• Q187How is the Lord’ s prayer to be used?
• Q188Of how many parts doth the Lord’ s prayer consist?
• Q189What doth the preface of the Lord’ s prayer teach us?
• Q190What do we pray for in the first petition?
• Q191What do we pray for in the second petition?
• Q192What do we pray for in the third petition?
• Q193What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
• Q194What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
• Q195What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
• Q196What doth the conclusion of the Lord’ s prayer teach us?