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Larger Catechism Q 94. Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall? A. Although no man, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law; 1 yet there is great use thereof, as well common to all men, as peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regenerate. 2 Romans 8:3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in th...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 5. The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof; 1 and that, not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it. 2 Neither doth Christ, in the gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation. 3 Romans 13:8-10 Owe n...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 5. The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof; 1 and that, not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it. 2 Neither doth Christ, in the gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation. 3 Romans 13:8-10 Owe n...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 4. To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require. 1 Exodus 21:1-23:19 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the sevent...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 4. To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require. 1 Exodus 21:1-22:29 21:1 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the s...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 3. Beside this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; 1 and partly, holding forth divers instructions of moral duties. 2 All which ceremonial laws...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 3. Beside this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; 1 and partly, holding forth divers instructions of moral duties. 2 All which ceremonial laws...

Shorter Catechism Q 41. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments. 1 Larger Catechism Q 98. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments, which were delivered by the voice of God upon Mount Sinai, and written by him in two tables of stone; 2 and are recorded...

Shorter Catechism Q 41. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments. 1 Larger Catechism Q 98. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments, which were delivered by the voice of God upon Mount Sinai, and written by him in two tables of stone; 2 and are recorded...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 2. This law, after his fall, continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness; and, as such, was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables: 1 the first four commandments containing our duty towards God; and the other six, our duty to man. 2 James 1:25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of libe...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 2. This law, after his fall, continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness; and, as such, was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables: 1 the first four commandments containing our duty towards God; and the other six, our duty to man. 2 James 1:25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of libe...

Larger Catechism Q 93. What is the moral law? A. The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding everyone to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of the whole man, soul and body, 1 and in performance of all those duties of holiness and righteousness which he oweth to God and man: 2 promising life upo...

Larger Catechism Q 93. What is the moral law? A. The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding everyone to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of the whole man, soul and body, 1 and in performance of all those duties of holiness and righteousness which he oweth to God and man: 2 promising life upo...

Shorter Catechism 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 92. What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience? A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, besides a special command not to e...

Shorter Catechism 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 92. What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience? A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, besides a special command not to e...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 1. God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it. 1 Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 1. God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it. 1 Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our...

Shorter Catechism 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 91. What is the duty which God requireth of man? A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will. 2 Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to u...

Shorter Catechism 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 91. What is the duty which God requireth of man? A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will. 2 Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to u...

Confession of Faith Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation 4. True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence in preserving of it, by falling into some special sin which woundeth the conscience and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation, by God's withdrawing the light of his countenance, an...

Confession of Faith Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation 4. True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence in preserving of it, by falling into some special sin which woundeth the conscience and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation, by God's withdrawing the light of his countenance, an...

Larger Catechism Q 81. Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved? A. Assurance of grace and salvation not being of the essence of faith, 1 true believers may wait long before they obtain it; 2 and, after the enjoyment thereof, may have it weakened and intermitted, through manifold distempers, sins, temptations, and deser...

Larger Catechism Q 81. Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved? A. Assurance of grace and salvation not being of the essence of faith, 1 true believers may wait long before they obtain it; 2 and, after the enjoyment thereof, may have it weakened and intermitted, through manifold distempers, sins, temptations, and deser...

Confession of Faith Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation 3. This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker of it: 1 yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of...

Confession of Faith Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation 3. This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker of it: 1 yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of...