The Westminster Shorter Catechism (1648)

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• Q1What is the chief end of man?
• Q2What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy 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 doth 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 towards man in the estate wherein he was created?
• Q13Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
• Q14What is sin?
• Q15What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
• Q16Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
• Q17Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
• Q18Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
• Q19What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
• Q20Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
• Q21Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
• Q22How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
• Q23What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
• Q24How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
• Q25How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
• Q26How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
• Q27Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
• Q28Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?
• Q29How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
• Q30How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
• Q31What is effectual calling?
• Q32What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
• Q33What is justification?
• Q34What is adoption?
• Q35What is sanctification?
• Q36What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
• Q37What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
• Q38What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
• Q39What is the duty which God requireth of man?
• Q40What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
• Q41Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
• Q42What is the sum of the ten commandments?
• Q43What is the preface to the ten commandments?
• Q44What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
• Q45Which is the first commandment?
• Q46What is required in the first commandment?
• Q47What is forbidden in the first commandment?
• Q48What are we specially taught by these words, before me in the first commandment?
• Q49Which is the second commandment?
• Q50What is required in the second commandment?
• Q51What is forbidden in the second commandment?
• Q52What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
• Q53Which is the third commandment?
• Q54What is required in the third commandment?
• Q55What is forbidden in the third commandment?
• Q56What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
• Q57Which is the fourth commandment?
• Q58What is required in the fourth commandment?
• Q59Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
• Q60How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
• Q61What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
• Q62What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
• Q63Which is the fifth commandment?
• Q64What is required in the fifth commandment?
• Q65What is the forbidden in the fifth commandment?
• Q66What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
• Q67Which is the sixth commandment?
• Q68What is required in the sixth commandment?
• Q69What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
• Q70Which is the seventh commandment?
• Q71What is required in the seventh commandment?
• Q72What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
• Q73Which is the eighth commandment?
• Q74What is required in the eighth commandment?
• Q75What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
• Q76What is the ninth commandment?
• Q77What is required in the ninth commandment?
• Q78What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
• Q79Which is the tenth commandment?
• Q80What is required in the tenth commandment?
• Q81What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
• Q82Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
• Q83Are all transgression of the law equally heinous?
• Q84What doth every sin deserve?
• Q85What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
• Q86What is faith in Jesus Christ?
• Q87What is repentance unto life?
• Q88What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
• Q89How is the word made effectual to salvation?
• Q90How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
• Q91How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
• Q92What is a sacrament?
• Q93Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
• Q94What is baptism?
• Q95To whom is baptism to be administered?
• Q96What is the Lord’s supper?
• Q97What is required to be the worthy receiving of the Lord’s supper?
• Q98What is prayer?
• Q99What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
• Q100What doth the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us?
• Q101What do we pray for in the first petition?
• Q102What do we pray for in the second petition?
• Q103What do we pray for in the third petition?
• Q104What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
• Q105What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
• Q106What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
• Q107What doth the conclusion the Lord’s prayer teach us?