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Confession of Faith Chapter 27: Of the Sacraments 2. There is, in every sacrament, a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified: whence it comes to pass, that the names and effects of the one are attributed to the other. 2 Larger Catechism Q 163. What are the parts of a sacrament? A. The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, use...

Shorter Catechism Q 92. What is a sacrament? A. A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ; 1 wherein by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers. 2 Larger Catechism Q 162. What is a sacrament? A. A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church, 3 to signify, seal, and exhibit 4 unto those that are...

Confession of Faith Chapter 27: Of the Sacraments 1. Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, 1 immediately instituted by God, 2 to represent Christ, and his benefits; and to confirm our interest in him: 3 as also, to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the world; 4 and solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, acc...

Larger Catechism Q 160. What is required of those that hear the Word preached? A. It is required of those that hear the Word preached, that they attend upon it with diligence, 1 preparation, 2 and prayer; 3 examine what they hear by the Scriptures; 4 receive the truth with faith, 5 love, 6 meekness, 7 and readiness of mind, 8 as the Word of God; 9 meditate, 10 and confer of it; 11 hide it in their...

Larger Catechism Q 159. How is the Word of God to be preached by those that are called thereunto? A. They that are called to labor in the ministry of the Word, are to preach sound doctrine, 1 diligently, 2 in season and out of season; 3 plainly, 4 not in the enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power; 5 faithfully, 6 making known the whole counsel of God; 7 wi...

Larger Catechism Q 158. By whom is the Word of God to be preached? A. The Word of God is to be preached only by such as are sufficiently gifted, 1 and also duly approved and called to that office. 2 1 Timothy 3:2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 1 Timothy 3:6 He must not be a recent convert...

Shorter Catechism 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; 1 receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives. 2 Larger Catechism Q 157. How is the Word of God to be read? A. The Holy Scriptures are...

Larger Catechism Q 156. Is the Word of God to be read by all? A. Although all are not to be permitted to read the Word publicly to the congregation, 1 yet all sorts of people are bound to read it apart by themselves, 2 and with their families: 3 to which end, the Holy Scriptures are to be translated out of the original into vulgar languages. 4 Deuteronomy 31:9 Then Moses wrote this law and gave it...

Shorter Catechism 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 155. How is the Word made effectual to salvation? A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading...

Shorter Catechism 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 154. What are the outward means w...

Shorter Catechism Q 85. What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin? 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, 1 with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption. 2 Larger Catechism Q 153. What doth God require of us...

Shorter Catechism Q 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? A. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, 1 shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, 2 and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God 3 to all eternity. 4 Larger Catechism Q 90. What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment? A. At the day of...

Shorter Catechism Q 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, 1 and do immediately pass into glory; 2 and their bodies, being still united to Christ, 3 do rest in their graves, till the resurrection. 4 Larger Catechism Q 86. What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church...

Shorter Catechism 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, 1 peace of conscience, 2 joy in the Holy Ghost, 3 increase of grace, 4 and perseverance therein to the end. 5 Larger Catechism Q...

Larger Catechism Q 82. What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ? A. The communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is in this life, 1 immediately after death, 2 and at last perfected at the resurrection and day of judgment. 3 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are b...

Larger Catechism Q 69. What is the communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ? A. The communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is their partaking of the virtue of his mediation, in their justification, 1 adoption, 2 sanctification, and whatever else, in this life, manifests their union with him. 3 Romans 8:30 And those whom h...

Confession of Faith Chapter 26: Of the Communion of Saints 3. This communion which the saints have with Christ, doth not make them in any wise partakers of the substance of his Godhead; or to be equal with Christ in any respect: either of which to affirm is impious and blasphemous. 1 Nor doth their communion one with another, as saints, take away, or infringe the title or propriety which each man...

Confession of Faith Chapter 26: Of the Communion of Saints 2. Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification; 1 as also in relieving each other in outward things, according to their several abilities and necessities. Which communion, as God offereth opportunity, i...

Confession of Faith Chapter 26: Of the Communion of Saints 1. All saints, that are united to Jesus Christ their Head, by his Spirit, and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory: 4 and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each other's gifts and graces, 5 and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private...

Confession of Faith Chapter 25: Of the Church 6. There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Nor can the pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof. 2 Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. Ephesians 1:22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head...

Confession of Faith Chapter 25: Of the Church 5. The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; 2 and some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan. 3 Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will. 4 Larger Catechism Q 61. Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church? A....

Confession of Faith Chapter 25: Of the Church 4. This catholic church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. 1 And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them. 2 Romans 11:3-5 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, t...

Confession of Faith Chapter 25: Of the Church 3. Unto this catholic visible church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting of the saints, in this life, to the end of the world: and doth, by his own presence and Spirit, according to his promise, make them effectual thereunto. 6 Larger Catechism Q 63. What are the special privileges of the vis...

Confession of Faith Chapter 25: Of the Church 2. The visible church, which is also catholic or universal under the gospel (not confined to one nation, as before under the law), consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion; 3 and of their children: 4 and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, 5 the house and family of God, 6 out of which there is no ordinary possibili...

Larger Catechism Q 65. What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ? A. The members of the invisible church by Christ enjoy union and communion with him in grace and glory. 1 John 17:21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. Ephesians 2:5-6 even when we...