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Q. 1. What is the chief end of man? |
A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
1 Cor. 10:31 Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. |
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Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
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A. 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.
2 Tim. 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. |
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Q. 3. What do the scriptures principally teach? |
A. The scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
Psa. 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. |
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Q. 4. What is God?
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A. God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.
John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one? |
A. There is but one only, the living and true God.
Deut 6:4 |
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Q. 6. How many persons are there in the godhead? |
A. 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.
Matt. 28:19 |
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Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?
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A. 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.
Eph. 1:11-12 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. |
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Q. 8. How doth God execute his decrees?
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A. God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
Rev. 4:11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” |
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Q. 9. What is the work of creation? |
A. 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.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. |
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Q. 10. How did God create man? |
A. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. |
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Q. 11. What are God's works of providence? |
A. God's works of providence are his most holy, wise and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.
Proverbs 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD. |
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Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created? |
A. 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 the pain of death.
Gen. 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” |
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Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? |
A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
Gen. 3 |
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Q. 14. What is sin?
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A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
James 4:17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. |
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Q. 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
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A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit.
Gen 3 |
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Q. 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
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A. 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.
Rom. 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— |
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Q. 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? |
A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
Rom. 5:12 |
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Q. 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? |
A. 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.
Rom 3:23, 6:23 Rom. 5:19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. |
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Q. 19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
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A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
Gen. 3 Matt. 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Matt. 25:46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” |
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Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? |
A. God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a redeemer.
Eph. 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, |
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Q. 21. Who is the redeemer of God's elect? |
A. 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, forever.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. |
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Q. 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? |
A. 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.
Phil. 2:7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Heb. 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. |
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Q. 23. What offices doth Christ execute as our redeemer? |
A. 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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Q. 24. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? |
A. Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
Jesus, quoting Isaiah 61: Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Luke 4:21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” |
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Q. 25. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
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A. 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.
Rom. 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. |
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Q. 26. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
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A. 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.
Col 2:15 [Jesus] disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. |
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Q. 27. Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
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A. 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.
2Cor. 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. |
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Q. 28. Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation? |
A. Christ's exaltation consist 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.
Heb. 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high |
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Q. 29. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? |
A. We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. |
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Q. 30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
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A. 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.
Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. |
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WLC Q. 66. What is that union which the elect have with Christ?
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A. The union which the elect have with Christ is the work of God’s grace, whereby they are spiritually and mystically, yet really and inseparably, joined to Christ as their head and husband; which is done in their effectual calling.
Eph 5
1 Cor 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. |
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Q. 31. What is effectual calling? |
A. 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.
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. |
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Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? |
A. 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.
Romans 8:28-30 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. |
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Q. 33. What is justification?
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A. 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.
Romans 4:4-8 Rom. 4:4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: Rom. 4:7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.” |
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Q. 34. What is adoption? |
A. 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.
John 1:12-13 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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Q. 35. What is sanctification?
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A. 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.
Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. |
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WLC 77. Wherein do justification and sanctification differ? |
Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification, yet they differ, in that God in justification imputes the righteousness of Christ; in sanctification his Spirit infuses grace, and enables to the exercise thereof; in the former, sin is pardoned; in the other, it is subdued: the one does equally free all believers from the revenging wrath of God, and that perfectly in this life, that they never fall into condemnation; the other is neither equal in all, nor in this life perfect in any, but growing up to perfection. |
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Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification? |
A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification, are, assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
Rom. 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? |
A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
Luke 23:43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
2Cor. 5:6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
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Q. 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
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A. At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
1Cor. 15:42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. |
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Q. 39. What is the duty which God requireth of man? |
A. The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to his revealed will.
1John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. |
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Q. 40. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? |
A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience was the moral law.
Rom. 2:14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them |
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Q. 82. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
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A. 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.
Rom 3:23 |
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Q. 83. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
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A. Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.
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Q. 84. What doth every sin deserve?
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A. Every sin deserveth God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.
Rom 6:23 |
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Q. 85. What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
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A. To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life, with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption.
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Q. 86. What is faith in Jesus Christ?
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A. 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.
Eph. 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. |
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Q. 87. What is repentance unto life?
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A. 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.
2Cor. 7:10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. |
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Q. 88. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? |
A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption, are his ordinances, especially the word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation. |
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Q. 89. How is the word made effectual to salvation? |
A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation. |
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Q. 90. How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? |
A. That the word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.
2 Tim 3:16-17 |
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Q. 98. What is prayer? |
A. 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 acknowledgment of his mercies.
Matt. 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. |
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Q. 91. How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? |
A. The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.
1 Cor. 3:7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. |
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Q. 92. What is a sacrament? |
A. 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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Q. 93. Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
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A. The sacraments of the New Testament are baptism and the Lord's supper. |
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Q. 94. What is baptism? |
A. 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.
1 Peter 3:21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ |
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Q. 95. To whom is baptism to be administered? |
A. 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.
Acts 2:38-39 Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” |
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Q. 96. What is the Lord's supper? |
A. The Lord's supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to Christ's appointment, his death is showed 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.
1 Cor. 11:23-26 1Cor. 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. |
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Q. 97. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper? |
A. 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.
1 Cor. 11:27-29 1Cor. 11:27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. |
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What freedoms has Christ purchased for believers as pertains to justification? (20.1 CHRISTIAN LIBERTY)
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Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel freedom from the guilt of sin, from the condemning wrath of God, and from the curse of the moral law, He has also freed them from the evil world we live in, from enslavement to Satan, from the dominion of sin, the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave and from everlasting damnation.
Romans 6:12-14 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. |
