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47 Cards in this Set
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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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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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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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What is God?
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God is spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.
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Are there more Gods than one?
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There is but one only, the living and true God.
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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 Spirit; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
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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 has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
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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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What is the work of creation?
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The work of creation is God's making of all things of nothing, by the word of His power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
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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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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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What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein they were 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 the pain of death.
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Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were created?
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Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
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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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What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
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The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit.
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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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Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate where into man fell?
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The sinfulness of that estate where into 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 that proceed from it.
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What is the misery of that estate where into 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 miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
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Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
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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.
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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 one person, forever.
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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 born of her, yet without sin.
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What offices does Christ execute as our redeemer?
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Christ, as our redeemer, executes the office of a prophet, or a priest, and of a king, both in His estate of humiliation and exaltation.
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How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
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Christ executes 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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How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
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Christ executes 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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How does Christ execute the office of a king?
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Christ executes 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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How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
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The Spirit applies 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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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 does persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.
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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 in justification, adoption and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany of flow from them.
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What is justification?
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Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein He pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
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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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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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What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?
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The benefits in this life which do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification, are, assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
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What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of obedience?
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The rule which God at first revealed for obedience was the moral law.
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What is forbidden in the second commandment?
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The second commandment forbids the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in His word.
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What is required in the fourth commandment?
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The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as He has appointed in His word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.
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Which day of the seven has God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
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From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.
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How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
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The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.
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What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
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The fourth commandment forbids 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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What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
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The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, His challenging a special propriety in the seventh, His own example, and His blessing the Sabbath day.
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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 does daily break them in thought, word and deed.
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What does God require of us that we may escape His wrath and curse due to us for sin?
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To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, God requires of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life, and the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption.
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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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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, does, 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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What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption
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The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates 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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How is the word made effectual to salvation?
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The Spirit of God makes 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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What is a sacrament?
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A sacrament is a 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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What is a prayer?
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Prayer is an offering up of our desires to God, for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies.
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