Key Wsc For Pca Ordination

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WSC 1: What is the chief end of man?

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Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.

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WSC 2: What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?

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The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.

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WSC 3: What do the Scriptures principally teach?

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The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God and what duty God requires of man.

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WSC 4: What is God?

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God is a Spirit infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

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WSC 6: How many persons are there in the Godhead?

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There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

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WSC 7: What are the decrees of God?

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The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.

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WSC 8: How doth God execute his decrees?

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God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.

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WSC 9: What is the work of creation?

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The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.

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WSC 10: How did God create man?

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God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

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WSC 11: What are God's works of providence?

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God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions.

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WSC 14: What is sin?

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Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.

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WSC 16: Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

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The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in his first transgression.

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WSC 18: Wherein consist thesinfulness of the estate whereinto man fell?

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The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.

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WSC 21: Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?

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The only Redeemer of God's elect, is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, for ever

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WSC 22: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

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Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without
sin.

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WSC 23: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?

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Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.

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WSC 24: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?

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Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.

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WSC 25: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?

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Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God; and in making continual intercession for us.

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WSC 26: How doth Christ execute the office of a king?

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Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.

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WSC 27: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?

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Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.

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WSC 28: Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?

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Christ's exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.

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WSC 29: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?

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We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.

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WSC 30: How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?

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The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.

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WSC 31: What is effectual calling?

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Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of
Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.

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WSC 32: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?

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They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.

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WSC 33: What is justification?

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Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

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WSC 34: What is adoption?

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Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.

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WSC 35: What is sanctification?

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Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

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WSC 37: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?

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The souls of believers are at their death made into perfect holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.

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WSC 39: What is the duty which God requireth of man?

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The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.

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WSC 41: Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?

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The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.

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WSC 42: What is the sum of the ten commandments?

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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 neighbor as ourselves.

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WSC 61: What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?

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The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.

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WSC 82: Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?

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No mere man, since the fall, is able, in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of God; but doth daily break them, in thought, word, and deed.

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WSC 86: What is faith in Jesus Christ?

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Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.

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WSC 87: What is repentance unto life?

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Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.

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WSC 92: What is a sacrament?

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A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ, wherein, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.

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WSC 94: What is baptism?

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Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's.

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WSC 95: To whom is baptism to be administered?

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Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible church, are to be baptized.

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WSC 96: What is the Lord's Supper?

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The Lord's Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, his death is shewed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.

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WSC 97: What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?

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It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord's Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord's body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

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WSC 98: What is prayer?

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Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgement of his mercies.