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Shorter Catechism Q 45. Which is the first commandment? A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 1 Larger Catechism Q 103. Which is the first commandment? A. The first commandment is, Thou shall have no other gods before me. 2 Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me. Deuteronomy 5:7 “‘You shall have no other gods before me. (ESV) Exodus 20:3 “You shall have...

Shorter Catechism Q 42. What is the sum of the ten commandments? A. 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 neighbor as ourselves. 1 Larger Catechism Q 102. What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God? A. The sum of the four commandments containing our duty t...

Shorter Catechism Q 44. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us? A. 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 commandments. 1 Luke 1:74-75 that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. 1 P...

Shorter Catechism Q 43. What is the preface to the ten commandments? A. 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 Exodus 20:2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Deuteronomy 5:6 “‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out...

Larger Catechism Q 101. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments? A. The preface to the Ten Commandments is contained 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 Wherein God manifesteth his sovereignty, as being JEHOVAH, the eternal, immutable, and almighty God; 2 having his being in and of himself, 3 and giving being t...

Larger Catechism Q 100. What special things are we to consider in the Ten Commandments? A. We are to consider, in the Ten Commandments, the preface, the substance of the commandments themselves, and several reasons annexed to some of them, the more to enforce them. 1 Ephesians 6:1-3 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first co...

Larger Catechism Q 99. What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the Ten Commandments? A. For the right understanding of the Ten Commandments, these rules are to be observed: That the law is perfect, and bindeth every one to full conformity in the whole man unto the righteousness thereof, and unto entire obedience forever; so as to require the utmost perfection of every duty, an...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 7. Neither are the forementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the gospel, but do sweetly comply with it; 1 the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely, and cheerfully, which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done. 2 Galatians 3:21 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certa...

Larger Catechism Q 97. What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate? A. Although they that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered from the moral law as a covenant of works, 1 so as thereby they are neither justified 2 nor condemned; 3 yet, besides the general uses thereof common to them with all men, it is of special use, to show them how much they are bound to Christ...

Confession of Faith Chapter 19: Of the Law of God 6. Although true believers be not under the law, as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified, or condemned; 1 yet is it of great use to them, as well as to others; in that, as a rule of life informing them of the will of God, and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly; 2 discovering also the sinful pollutions of their nature,...

Larger Catechism Q 96. What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men? A. The moral law is of use to unregenerate men, to awaken their consciences to flee from wrath to come, 1 and to drive them to Christ; 2 or, upon their continuance in the estate and way of sin, to leave them inexcusable, 3 and under the curse thereof. 4 Psalm 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, a...

Larger Catechism Q 95. Of what use is the moral law to all men? A. The moral law is of use to all men, to inform them of the holy nature and will of God, 1 and of their duty, binding them to walk accordingly; 2 to convince them of their disability to keep it, and of the sinful pollution of their nature, hearts, and lives; 3 to humble them in the sense of their sin and misery, 4 and thereby help th...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...