Catechism

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Westminster Assembly

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Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 1 Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 2 Q. 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 3 Q. 4. What is God?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 4 Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 5 Q. 6. How many persons are there in the Godhead?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 6 Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 7 Q. 8. How doth God execute his decrees?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 8 Q. 9. What is the work of creation?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 9 Q. 10. How did God create man?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 10 Q. 11. What are God's works of providence?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 11 Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 12 Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 13 Q. 14. What is sin?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 14 Q. 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 15 Q. 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 16 Q. 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 17 Q. 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 18 Q. 19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 19 Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 20 Q. 21. Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 21 Q. 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 22 Q. 23. What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 23 Q. 24. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 24 Q. 25. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 25 Q. 26. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 26 Q. 27. Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 27 Q. 28. Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 28 Q. 29. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 29 Q. 30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 30 Q. 31. What is effectual calling?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 31 Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 32 Q. 33. What is justification?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 33 Q. 34. What is adoption?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 34 Q. 35. What is sanctification?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 35 Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 36 Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 37 Q. 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 38 Q. 39. What is the duty which God requireth of man?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 39 Q. 40. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 40 Q. 41. Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 41 Q. 42. What is the sum of the ten commandments?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 42 Q. 43. What is the preface to the ten commandments?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 43 Q. 44. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 44 Q. 45. Which is the first commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 45 Q. 46. What is required in the first commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 46 Q. 47. What is forbidden in the first commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 47 Q. 48. What are we specially taught by these words, "before me," in the first commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 48 Q. 49. Which is the second commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 49 Q. 50. What is required in the second commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 50 Q. 51. What is forbidden in the second commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 51 Q. 52. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 52 Q. 53. Which is the third commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 53 Q. 54. What is required in the third commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 54 Q. 55. What is forbidden in the third commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 55 Q. 56. What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 56 Q. 57. Which is the fourth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 57 Q. 58. What is required in the fourth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 58 Q. 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 59 Q. 60. How is the sabbath to be sanctified?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 60 Q. 61. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 61 Q. 62. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 62 Q. 63. Which is the fifth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 63 Q. 64. What is required in the fifth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 64 Q. 65. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 65 Q. 66. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 66 Q. 67. Which is the sixth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 67 Q. 68. What is required in the sixth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 68 Q. 69. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 69 Q. 70. Which is the seventh commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 70 Q. 71. What is required in the seventh commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 71 Q. 72. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 72 Q. 73. Which is the eighth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 73 Q. 74. What is required in the eighth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 74 Q. 75. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 75 Q. 76. Which is the ninth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 76 Q. 77. What is required in the ninth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 77 Q. 78. What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 78 Q. 79. Which is the tenth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 79 Q. 80. What is required in the tenth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 80 Q. 81. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 81 Q. 82. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 82 Q. 83. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 83 Q. 84. What doth every sin deserve?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 84 Q. 85. What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 85 Q. 86. What is faith in Jesus Christ?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 86 Q. 87. What is repentance unto life?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 87 Q. 88. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 88 Q. 89. How is the Word made effectual to salvation?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 89 Q. 90. How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 90 Q. 91. How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 91 Q. 92. What is a sacrament?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 92 Q. 93. Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 93 Q. 94. What is Baptism?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 94 Q. 95. To whom is Baptism to be administered?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 95 Q. 96. What is the Lord's Supper?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 96 Q. 97. What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 97 Q. 98. What is prayer?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 98 Q. 99. What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 99 Q. 100. What doth the preface of the Lord's Prayer teach us?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 100 Q. 101. What do we pray for in the first petition?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 101 Q. 102. What do we pray for in the second petition?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 102 Q. 103. What do we pray for in the third petition?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 103 Q. 104. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 104 Q. 105. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 105 Q. 106. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 106 Q. 107. What doth the conclusion of the Lord's Prayer teach us?Westminster Shorter Catechism / Q. 107