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23 Cards in this Set
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Q.1 What is the chief of end man?
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A.1 Man's chief end is the glorify God, and enjoy him forever.
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Q.2 What rule hath God given to direct us how to glorify and enjoy him?
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A.2 The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how to glorify and enjoy him.
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Q.3 What do the Scriptures principally teach us?
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A.3 The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to beleive concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
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Q.4 What is God?
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A.4 God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
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Q.5 Are there more Gods than one?
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A.5. There is but one only, the living and true God.
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Q.6 How many persons are there in the Godhead?
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A.6 There are three persons in the Godhead: The Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are on God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
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Q.7 What are the decrees of God?
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A.7 The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glor, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
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Q.8 How doth God execute his decrees?
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A.8 God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
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Q.9 What is the work of his creation?
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A.9 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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Q.10 How did God create man?
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A.10 God created man and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
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Q.11 What are God's work of providence?
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A.11 God's work of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful perserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.
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Q.12 What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?
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A.12 When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.
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Q.13 Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
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A.13 Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell form the estate wherein they were createdm by sinning against God.
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Q.14 What is sin?
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A.14 Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
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Q.15 What was sin whereby out fisrt parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
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A.15 The sin whereby out first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.
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Q.16 Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
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A.16 The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, decending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.
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Q.17 Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
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A.17 The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
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Q.18 Wherein consists the singulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
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A.18 The sinfulness of tjate estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's frst 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 proceeded from it.
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Q.19 What is the misery of that esate whereinto man fell?
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A.19 All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
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Q.20 Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
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A.20 God, having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter tnto a covenant of grace to deliver the out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Reedeemer.
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Q.21 Who is the Reedeemer of God's elect?
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A.21 The only Reedeemer 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, forever.
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Q.22 How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
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A.22 Christ, the Son of God, became man, 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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Q.23 What offices doth Christ execute as our Reedeemer?
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A.23 Christ, as our Reedeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in estate of humiliation and exaltation.
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