The Westminster Shorter Catechism with Sinclair Ferguson

Question: 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 …

Question: What is forbidden in the First Commandment?

Answer: The First Commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God, [and our God,] and the giving of th…

Question: What is required in the First Commandment?

Answer: The First Commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify Him accordingl…

Question: Which is the First Commandment?

Answer: The First Commandment is, "thou shalt have no other gods before Me.�

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Question: 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 bo…

Question: What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?

Answer: The preface to the Ten Commandments is in these words, "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the hou…

Question: 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, all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our min…

Question: Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended?

Answer: The Moral Law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments.

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Question: 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 Law.

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Question: What is the duty which God requireth of man?

Answer: The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to His revealed will.

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Question: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

Answer: At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of…

Question: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?

Answer: The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, be…

Question: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

Answer: The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justificati…

Question: What is sanctification?

Answer: 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…

Question: What is adoption?

Answer: 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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Question: What is justification?

Answer: Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein He pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Chri…

Question: 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, a…

Question: 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 Christ, and renewin…

Question: 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 us, and thereby uniting us to C…

Question: 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 Sp…