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22 Cards in this Set
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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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2. What rule has 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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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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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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5. Are there more Gods than one?
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There is but one only, the living and true God.
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6. How many persons are in the Godhead?
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There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
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7. What are the decrees of God?
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God's decrees are: His eternal purpose, according to the counsel of His will, whereby, for His own glory, He has foreordained whatever comes to pass.
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8. How does God execute His decrees?
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God executes His decrees in the works of creation and providence.
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9. What is the work of creation?
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The work of creation: God's making all things out of nothing, by the Word of His power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
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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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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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12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state in which he was created?
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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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13. Did our first parents continue in the state they were created in?
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Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate they were created in by sinning against God.
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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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15. What was the sin by which our first parents fell from the state in which they were created?
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The sin by which our first parents fell from the estate they were created in was their eating the forbidden fruit.
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16. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
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The covenant was 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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17. In what state did the fall bring mankind?
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The fall brought mankind into the state of sin and misery.
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18. What does the sinfulness of man consist in?
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The sinfulness of man consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the lack of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature(which i commonly called "original sin"); together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
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19. What is the misery of the state into which man fell?
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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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20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?
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God, having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, entered into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.
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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 continues to be God and man in two distinct natures and in one person forever.
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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 Spirit, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and was born of her, yet without sin.
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