Question 1: What is the chief end of man?
Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God,1
and to enjoy him for ever.2
1Psalms 86:9, Isaiah 60:21, Romans 11:36, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Revelation 4:11, 2Psalms 16:5-11, Psalms 144:15, Isaiah 12:2, Luke 2:10, Philippians 4:4, Revelation 21:3-4,
Question 2: What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
Answer: The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,1
is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.2
1Matthew 19:4-5 with Gen. 2:24, Luke 24:27, 44, 1 Corinthians 2:13, 1 Corinthians 14:37, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Peter 3:2, 15-16, 2Deuteronomy 4:2, Psalms 19:7-11, Isaiah 8:20, John 15:11, John 20:30-31, Acts 17:11, 2 Timothy 3:15-17, 1 John 1:4,
Question 3: What do the Scriptures principally teach?
Answer: The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God,1
and what duty God requires of man2
1Genesis 1:1, John 5:39, John 20:31, Romans 10:17, 2 Timothy 3:15, 2Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Joshua 1:8, Psalms 119:105, Micah 6:8, 2 Timothy 3:16-17,
Question 4: What is God?
Answer: God is a Spirit1
infinite2
eternal3
and unchangeable4
in his being5
wisdom6
power7
holiness8
justice9
goodness10
and truth11
1Deuteronomy 4:15-19, Luke 24:39, John 1:18, John 4:24, Acts 17:29, 21 Kings 8:27, Psalms 139:7-10, Psalms 145:3, Psalms 147:5, Jeremiah 23:24, Romans 11:33-36, 3Deuteronomy 33:27, Psalms 90:2, Psalms 102:12, 24-27, Revelation 1:4,8, 4Psalms 33:11, Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 1:12, Hebrews 6:17-18, Hebrews 13:8, James 1:17, 5Exodus 3:14, Psalms 115:2-3, 1 Timothy 1:17, 1 Timothy 6:15-16, 6Psalms 104:24, Romans 11:33-34, Hebrews 4:13, 1 John 3:20, 7Genesis 17:1, Psalms 62:11, Jeremiah 32:17, Matthew 19:26, Revelation 1:8, 8Hebrews 1:13, 1 Peter 1:15-16, 1 John 3:3, 5, Revelation 15:4, 9Genesis 18:25, Exodus 34:6-7, Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalms 96:13, Romans 3:5, 26, 10Psalms 103:5, Psalms 107:8, Matthew 19:17, Romans 2:4, 11Exodus 34:6, Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 117:2, Hebrews 6:18,
Question 5: Are there more Gods than one?
Answer: There is but one only1
the living and true God 2
1Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:21-22, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, 2Jeremiah 10:10, John 17:3, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, 1 John 5:20,
Question 6: How many persons are there in the Godhead?
Answer: There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost1
and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.2
1Matthew 3:16-17, Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 1 Peter 1:2, 2Psalms 45:6, John 1:1, John 17:5, Acts 5:3-4, Romans 9:5, Colossians 2:9, Jude 1:24-25,
Question 7: What are the decrees of God?
Answer: 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 pass1
1Psalms 33:11, Isaiah 14:24, Acts 2:23, Ephesians 1:11-12,
Question 8: How doth God execute his decrees?
Answer: God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence1
1Psalms 148:8, Isaiah 40:26, Daniel 4:35, Acts 4:24-28, Revelation 4:11,
Question 9: What is the work of creation?
Answer: The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power1
in the space of six days, and all very good.2
1Genesis 1:1, Psalms 33:6, 9, Hebrews 11:3, 2Genesis 1:31,
Question 10: How did God create man?
Answer: God created man male and female, after his own image1
in knowledge2
righteousness, and holiness3
with dominion over the creatures4
1Genesis 1:27, 2Colossians 3:10, 3Ephesians 4:24, 4Genesis 1:28, Psalms 8:1-9,
Question 11: What are God’s works of providence?
Answer: God’s works of providence are, his most holy1
wise2
and powerful3
preserving4
and governing5
all his creatures, and all their actions6
1Psalms 145:17, 2Psalms 104:24, 3Hebrews 1:3, 4Nehemiah 9:6, 5Ephesians 1:19-22, 6Psalms 36:6, Proverbs 16:33, Matthew 10:30,
Question 12: What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
Answer: 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.1
1Genesis 2:16-17, James 2:10,
Question 13: Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
Answer: Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God1
1Genesis 3:6-8, 13, 2 Corinthians 11:3,
Question 14: What is sin?
Answer: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God1
1Leviticus 5:17, James 4:17, 1 John 3:4,
Question 15: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
Answer: The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein thy were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit1
1Genesis 3:6,
Question 16: Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
Answer: The covenant being made with Adam1
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 transgression2
1Genesis 2:16-17, James 2:10, 2Romans 5:12-21, 1 Corinthians 15:22,
Question 17: Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
Answer: The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery 1
1Genesis 3:16-19, 23, Romans 3:16, Romans 5:12, Ephesians 2:1,
Question 18: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
Answer: The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin1
the want of original righteousness2
and the corruption of his whole nature3
which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it4
1Romans 5:12, 19, 2Romans 3:10, Colossians 3:10, Ephesians 4:24, 3Psalms 51:5, John 3:6, Romans 3:18, Romans 8:7-8, Ephesians 2:3, 4Genesis 6:5, Psalms 53:1-3, Matthew 15:19, Romans 3:10-18, 23, Galatians 5:19-21, James 1:14-15,
Question 19: What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
Answer: All mankind by their fall lost communion with God1
are under his wrath2
and curse3
and so made liable to all miseries in this life4
to death5
itself, and to the pains of hell for ever6
1Genesis 3:8, 24, John 8:34, 42, 44, Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 4:18, 2John 3:36, Romans 1:18, Ephesians 2:3, Ephesians 5:6, 3Galatians 3:10, Revelation 22:3, 4Genesis 3:16-19, Job 5:7, Ecclesiastes 2:22-23, Romans 8:18-23, 5Ezekiel 18:4, Romans 5:12, Romans 6:23, 6Matthew 25:41, 46, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Revelation 14:9-11,
Question 20: Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
Answer: God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life1
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 Redeemer2
1Acts 13:48, Ephesians 1:4-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, 2Genesis 3:15, Genesis 17:7, Exodus 19:5-6, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Matthew 20:28, 1 Corinthians 11:25, Hebrews 9:15,
Question 21: Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
Answer: The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ1
who, being the eternal Son of God2
became man3
and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever4
1John 14:6, Acts 4:12, 1 Timothy 2:5-6, 2Psalms 2:7, Matthew 3:17, Matthew 17:5, John 1:18, 3Isaiah 9:6, Matthew 1:23, John 1:14, Galatians 4:4, 4Acts 1:11, Hebrews 7:24-25,
Question 22: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
Answer: Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul1
being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her2
yet without sin3
1Philippians 2:7, Hebrews 2:14, 17, 2Luke 1:27, 31, 35, 32 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 7:26, 1 John 3:5,
Question 23: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
Answer: Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet1
of a priest2
and of a king3
both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.4
1Deuteronomy 18:18, Acts 2:33, Acts 3:22-23, Hebrews 1:1-2, 2Hebrews 4:14-15, Hebrews 5:5-6, 3Isaiah 9:6-7, Luke 1:32-33, John 18:37, 1 Corinthians 15:25,
Question 24: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
Answer: Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word1
and Spirit [b,] the will of God for our salvation2
1Luke 4:18-19, 21, Acts 1:1-2, Hebrews 2:3, 2John 15:26-27, Acts 1:8, 1 Peter 1:11, 3John 4:41-42, John 20:30-31,
Question 25: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
Answer: Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice1
and reconcile us to God2
and in making continual intercession for us3
1Isaiah 53:1-12, Acts 8:32-35, Hebrews 9:26-28, Hebrews 10:12, 2Romans 5:10-11, 2 Corinthians 5:18, Colossians 1:21-22, 3Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 9:24,
Question 26: How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
Answer: Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us1
and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies2
1Psalms 110:3, Matthew 28:18-20, John 17:2, Colossians 1:13, 2Psalms 2:6-9, Psalms 110:1-2, Matthew 12:28, 1 Corinthians 15:24-26, Colossians 2:15,
Question 27: Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
Answer: Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition1
made under the law2
undergoing the miseries of this life3
the wrath of God4
and the cursed death of the cross5
in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.6
1Luke 2:7, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Galatians 4:4, 2Galatians 4:4, 3Isaiah 53:3, Luke 9:58, John 4:6, John 11:35, Hebrews 2:18, 4Psalms 22:1 (Matt. 27:46), Isaiah 53:10, 1 John 2:2, 5Galatians 3:13, Philippians 2:8, 6Matthew 12:40, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4,
Question 28: Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?
Answer: Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day1
in ascending up into heaven2
in sitting at the right hand3
of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day4
11 Corinthians 15:4, 2Psalms 68:18, Acts 1:11, Ephesians 4:8, 3Psalms 110:1, Acts 2:33-34, Hebrews 1:3, 4Matthew 16:27, Acts 17:31,
Question 29: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
Answer: We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit1
1Titus 3:4-7,
Question 30: How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
Answer: The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us1
and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling2
1Romans 10:17, 1 Corinthians 2:12-16, Ephesians 2:8, Philippians 1:29, 2John 15:5, 1 Corinthians 1:9, Ephesians 3:17,
Question 31: What is effectual calling?
Answer: Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ1
and renewing our wills2
he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ3
freely offered to us in the gospel4
1Acts 26:18, 1 Corinthians 2:10, 12, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Ephesians 1:17-18, 2Deuteronomy 30:6, Ezekiel 36:26-27, John 3:5, Titus 3:5, 3John 6:44-45, Acts 16:14, 4Isaiah 45:22, Matthew 11:28-30, Revelation 22:17,
Question 32: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
Answer: 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 them1
1Romans 8:30, 1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Corinthians 6:11, Ephesians 1:5,
Question 33: What is justification?
Answer: Justification is an act of God’s free grace1
wherein he pardoneth all our sins2
and accepteth us as righteous in his sight3
only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us4
and received by faith alone5
1Romans 3:24, 2Romans 4:6-8, 2 Corinthians 5:19, 32 Corinthians 5:21, 4Romans 4:6, 11, Romans 5:19, 5Galatians 2:16, Philippians 3:9,
Question 34: What is adoption?
Answer: Adoption is an act of God’s free grace1
whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God2
11 John 3:1, 2John 1:12, Romans 8:17,
Question 35: What is sanctification?
Answer: Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace1
whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God2
and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness3
1Ezekiel 36:27, Philippians 2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 22 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 4:23-24, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 3Ezekiel 36:25-27, Romans 6:4, 6, 12-14, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Peter 2:24,
Question 36: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow
Answer: The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love1
peace of conscience2
joy in the Holy Ghost3
increase of grace4
and perseverance therein to the end5
1Romans 5:5, 2Romans 5:1, 3Romans 14:17, 42 Peter 3:18, 5Philippians 1:6, 1 Peter 1:5,
Question 37: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
Answer: The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness1
and do immediately pass into glory2
and their bodies, being still united to Christ3
do rest in their graves till the resurrection4
1Hebrews 12:23, 2Luke 23:43, 2 Corinthians 5:6, 8, Philippians 1:23, 31 Thessalonians 4:14, 4Daniel 12:2, John 5:28-29, Acts 24:15,
Question 38: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
Answer: At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory1
shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment2
and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God3
to all eternity4
11 Corinthians 15:42-43, 2Matthew 25:33-34, 46, 3Romans 8:29, 1 John 3:2, 4Psalms 16:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:17,
Question 39: What is the duty which God requireth of man?
Answer: The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will1
1Deuteronomy 29:29, Micah 6:8, 1 John 5:2-3,
Question 40: What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
Answer: The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law1
1Romans 2:14-15, Romans 10:5,
Question 41: Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?
Answer: The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments1
1Deuteronomy 4:13, Matthew 19:17-19,
Question 42: What is the sum of the ten commandments?
Answer: 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 neighbour as ourselves1
1Matthew 22:37-40,
Question 43: What is the preface to the ten commandments?
Answer: The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.1
1Exodus 20:2, Deuteronomy 5:6,
Question 44: What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
Answer: The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, That because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments1
1Luke 1:74-75, 1 Peter 1:14-19,
Question 45: Which is the first commandment?
Answer: The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.1
1Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 5:7,
Question 46: What is required in the first commandment?
Answer: The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly1
11 Chronicles 28:9, Isaiah 45:20-25, Matthew 4:10,
Question 47: What is forbidden in the first commandment?
Answer: The first commandment forbiddeth the denying1
or not worshipping and glorifying the true God as God2
and our God3
and the giving of that worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone4
1Psalms 14:1, 2Romans 1:20-21, 3Psalms 81:10-11, 4Ezekiel 8:16-18, Romans 1:25,
Question 48: What are we specially taught by these words, “before me,” in the first commandment?
Answer: These words, before me, in the first commandment teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God1
1Deuteronomy 30:17-18, Psalms 44:20-21, Ezekiel 8:12,
Question 49: Which is the second commandment?
Answer: The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thy self to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.1
1Exodus 20:4-6, Deuteronomy 5:8-10,
Question 50: What is required in the second commandment?
Answer: The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word1
1Deuteronomy 12:32, Matthew 28:20,
Question 51: What is forbidden in the second commandment?
Answer: The second commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images1
or any other way not appointed in his Word2
1Deuteronomy 4:15-19, Romans 1:22-23, 2Leviticus 10:1-2, Jeremiah 19:4-5, Colossians 2:18-23,
Question 52: What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
Answer: The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God’s sovereignty over us1
his propriety in us2
and the zeal he hath to his own worship3
1Psalms 95:2-3, 6-7, Psalms 96:9-10, 2Exodus 19:5, Psalms 45:11, Isaiah 54:5, 3Exodus 34:14, 1 Corinthians 10:22,
Question 53: Which is the third commandment?
Answer: The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.1
1Exodus 20:7, Deuteronomy 5:11,
Question 54: What is required in the third commandment?
Answer: The third commandment requireth the holy and reverend use of God’s names, titles1
attributes2
ordinances3
Word4
and works5
1Deuteronomy 10:20, Psalms 29:2, Matthew 6:9, 21 Chronicles 29:10-13, Revelation 15:3-4, 3Acts 2:42, 1 Corinthians 11:27-28, 4Psalms 138:2, Revelation 22:18-19, 5Psalms 107:21-22, Revelation 4:11,
Question 55: What is forbidden in the third commandment?
Answer: The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known1
1Leviticus 19:12, Matthew 5:33-37, James 5:12,
Question 56: What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
Answer: The reason annexed to the third commandment is, that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment1
1Deuteronomy 28:58-59, 1 Samuel 3:13, 1 Samuel 4:11,
Question 57: Which is the fourth commandment?
Answer: The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.1
1Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15,
Question 58: What is required in the fourth commandment?
Answer: The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself1
1Exodus 31:13, 16-17,
Question 59: Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly
Answer: From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath1
and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath2
1Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:11, 2Mark 2:27-28, Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Revelation 1:10,
Question 60: How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
Answer: 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 days1
and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship2
except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy3
1Exodus 20:10, Nehemiah 13:15-22, Isaiah 58:13-14, 2Exodus 20:8, Leviticus 23:3, Luke 4:16, Acts 20:7, 3Matthew 12:1-13,
Question 61: What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
Answer: 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 recreations1
1Nehemiah 13:15-22, Isaiah 58:13-14, Amos 8:4-6,
Question 62: What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
Answer: The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own employments1
his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath day2
1Exodus 20:9, Exodus 31:15, Leviticus 23:3, 2Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:11, Exodus 31:17,
Question 63: Which is the fifth commandment?
Answer: The fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.1
1Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16,
Question 64: What is required in the fifth commandment?
Answer: The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals1
1Romans 13:1, 7, Ephesians 5:21-22, 24, Ephesians 6:1, 4-5, 9, 1 Peter 2:17,
Question 65: What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
Answer: The fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing anything against, the honor and duty which belongeth to everyone in their several places and relations1
1Matthew 15:4-6, Romans 13:8,
Question 66: What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
Answer: The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity (as far as it shall serve for God’s glory and their own good) to all such as keep this commandment1
1Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16, Ephesians 6:2-3,
Question 67: Which is the sixth commandment?
Answer: The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill. 1
1Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17,
Question 68: What is required in the sixth commandment?
Answer: The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others1
1Ephesians 5:28-29,
Question 69: What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
Answer: The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour, unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto1
1Genesis 9:6, Matthew 5:22, 1 John 3:15,
Question 70: Which is the seventh commandment?
Answer: The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.1
1Exodus 20:14, Deuteronomy 5:18,
Question 71: What is required in the seventh commandment?
Answer: The seventh commandment requireth the preservation of our own and our neighbour’s chastity, in heart, speech, and behavior1
11 Corinthians 7:2-3, 5, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5,
Question 72: What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
Answer: The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions1
1Matthew 5:28, Ephesians 5:3-4,
Question 73: Which is the eighth commandment?
Answer: The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal. 1
1Exodus 20:15, Deuteronomy 5:19,
Question 74: What is required in the eighth commandment?
Answer: The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth and outward estate of ourselves and others1
1Leviticus 25:35, Ephesians 4:28b, Philippians 2:4,
Question 75: What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
Answer: The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth, or may, unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour’s, wealth or outward estate1
1Proverbs 28:19ff, Ephesians 4:28a, 1 Thessalonians 3:10, 1 Timothy 5:8,
Question 76: Which is the ninth commandment?
Answer: The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.1
1Exodus 20:16, Deuteronomy 5:20,
Question 77: What is required in the ninth commandment?
Answer: The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour’s good name1
especially in witness bearing2
1Zechariah 8:16, Acts 25:10, 3 John 1:12, 2Proverbs 14:5, 25,
Question 78: What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
Answer: The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbour’s, good name1
1Leviticus 19:16, Psalms 15:3, Proverbs 6:16-19, Luke 3:14,
Question 79: Which is the tenth commandment?
Answer: The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s.1
1Exodus 20:17, Deuteronomy 5:21,
Question 80: What is required in the tenth commandment?
Answer: The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition1
with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbour, and all that is his2
1Psalms 34:1, Philippians 4:11, 1 Timothy 6:6, Hebrews 13:5, 2Luke 15:6, 9, 11-32, Romans 12:15, Philippians 2:4,
Question 81: What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
Answer: The tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate1
envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his2
11 Corinthians 10:10, James 3:14-16, 2Galatians 5:26, Colossians 3:5,
Question 82: Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
Answer: 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 deed1
1Genesis 8:21, Romans 3:9ff, 23,
Question 83: Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
Answer: Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others1
1Ezekiel 8:6, 13, 15, Matthew 11:20-24, John 19:11,
Question 84: What doth every sin deserve?
Answer: Every sin deserveth God’s wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come1
1Matthew 25:41, Galatians 3:10, Ephesians 5:6, James 2:10,
Question 85: What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
Answer: To escape the wrath and curse of God, due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life1
with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption2
1Mark 1:15, Acts 20:21,
Question 86: What is faith in Jesus Christ?
Answer: Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace1
whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel2
1Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 4:16, 2John 20:30-31, Galatians 2:15-16, Philippians 3:3-11,
Question 87: What is repentance unto life?
Answer: Repentance unto life is a saving grace1
whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ2
doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God3
with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience4
1Acts 11:18, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2Psalms 51:1-4, Joel 2:13, Luke 15:7, 10, Acts 2:37, 3Jeremiah 31:18-19, Luke 1:16-17, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, 42 Chronicles 7:14, Psalms 119:57-64, Matthew 3:8, 2 Corinthians 7:10,
Question 88: What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ
Answer: 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 salvation1
1Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 2:41-42,
Question 89: How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
Answer: 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 salvation1
1Nehemiah 8:8-9, Acts 20:32, Romans 10:14-17, 2 Timothy 3:15-17,
Question 90: How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
Answer: That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer1
receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives2
1Deuteronomy 6:6ff, Psalms 119:18, 1 Peter 2:1-2, 2Psalms 119:11, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, Hebrews 4:2, James 1:22-25,
Question 91: How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
Answer: 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 them1
11 Corinthians 3:7, 1 Corinthians 1:12-17,
Question 92: What is a sacrament?
Answer: A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ1
wherein, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers2
1Matthew 28:19, Matthew 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 1:22-26, 2Galatians 3:27, 1 Corinthians 10:16-17,
Question 93: Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
Answer: The sacraments of the New Testament are, Baptism1
and the Lord’s Supper2
1Matthew 28:19, 21 Corinthians 11:23-26,
Question 94: What is Baptism?
Answer: Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost1
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’s2
1Matthew 28:19, 2Acts 2:38-42, Acts 22:16, Romans 6:3-4, Galatians 3:26-27, 1 Peter 3:21,
Question 95: To whom is Baptism to be administered?
Answer: 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 him1
but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized2
1Acts 2:41, Acts 8:12, 36, 38, Acts 18:8, 2Genesis 17:7, 9-11, Acts 2:38-39, Acts 16:32-33, Colossians 2:11-12,
Question 96: What is the Lord’s Supper?
Answer: The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth1
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 grace2
1Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, 21 Corinthians 10:16-17,
Question 97: What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?
Answer: 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 themselves1
11 Corinthians 11:27-32,
Question 98: What is prayer?
Answer: Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God1
for things agreeable to his will2
in the name of Christ3
with confession of our sins4
and thankful acknowledgement of his mercies.5
1Psalms 10:17, Psalms 62:8, Matthew 7:7-8, 21 John 5:14, 3John 16:23-24, 4Psalms 32:5-6, Daniel 9:4-19, 1 John 1:9, 5Psalms 103:1-5, Psalms 136:1-26, Philippians 4:6,
Question 99: What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
Answer: The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in prayer1
but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called The Lord’s Prayer.2
11 John 5:14, 2Matthew 6:9-13,
Question 100: What doth the preface of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
Answer: The preface of the Lord’s Prayer, which is, Our Father which art in heaven, teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence1
and confidence2
as children to a father3
able and ready to help us4
and that we should pray with and for others5
1Psalms 95:6, 2Ephesians 3:12, 3Matthew 7:9-11, Luke 11:11-13, Romans 8:15, 4Ephesians 3:20, 5Ephesians 6:18, 1 Timothy 2:1-2,
Question 101: What do we pray for in the first petition?
Answer: In the first petition, which is, Hallowed be thy name, we pray, that God would enable us, and others, to glorify him in all that whereby he maketh himself known1
and that he would dispose all things to his own glory2
1Psalms 67:1-3, Psalms 99:3, Psalms 100:3-4, 2Romans 11:33-36, Revelation 4:11,
Question 102: What do we pray for in the second petition?
Answer: In the second petition, which is, Thy kingdom come, we pray, that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed1
and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced2
ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it3
and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened4
1Matthew 12:25-28, Romans 16:20, 1 John 3:8, 2Psalms 72:8-11, Matthew 24:14, 1 Corinthians 15:24-25, 3Psalms 119:5, Luke 22:32, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 4Revelation 22:20,
Question 103: What do we pray for in the third petition?
Answer: In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we pray, that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things1
as the angels do in heaven2
1Psalms 19:14, Psalms 119:1-176, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 13:20-21, 2Psalms 103:20-21, Hebrews 1:14,
Question 104: What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
Answer: In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread, we pray that of God’s free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy his blessing with them1
1Proverbs 30:8-9, Matthew 6:31-34, Philippians 4:11, 19, 1 Timothy 6:6-8,
Question 105: What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
Answer: In the fifth petition, which is, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, we pray that God, for Christ’s sake, would freely pardon all our sins1
which we are the rather encouraged to ask, because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others2
1Psalms 51:1-2, 7, 9, Daniel 9:17-19, 1 John 1:7, 2Matthew 18:21-35, Ephesians 4:32, Colossians 3:13,
Question 106: What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
Answer: In the sixth petition, which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, we pray, that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin1
or support and deliver us when we are tempted2
1Psalms 19:13, Matthew 26:41, John 17:15, 2Luke 22:31-32, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 2 Corinthians 12:7-9, Hebrews 2:18,
Question 107: What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
Answer: The conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer, which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen. teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only1
and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory to him2
and, in testimony of our desire, and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen.3
1Daniel 9:4, 7-9, 16-19, Luke 18:1, 7-8, 21 Chronicles 29:10-13, 1 Timothy 1:17, Revelation 5:11-13,
