Man's Chief End and the Holy Scriptures
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Q. 1 · Q&A
What is the chief end of man?
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Q. 2 · Q&A
What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
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Q. 3 · Q&A
What do the Scriptures principally teach?
The Doctrine of God
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Q. 5 · Q&A
Are there more Gods than one?
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Q. 6 · Q&A
How many persons are there in the Godhead?
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Q. 7 · Q&A
What are the decrees of God?
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Q. 8 · Q&A
How doth God execute his decrees?
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Q. 9 · Q&A
What is the work of creation?
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Q. 10 · Q&A
How did God create man?
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Q. 11 · Q&A
What are God's works of providence?
Man's Creation, Fall, and Sin
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Q. 12 · Q&A
What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
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Q. 13 · Q&A
Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
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Q. 15 · Q&A
What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
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Q. 16 · Q&A
Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
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Q. 17 · Q&A
Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
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Q. 18 · Q&A
Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
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Q. 19 · Q&A
What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
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Q. 20 · Q&A
Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
Christ the Redeemer and Salvation
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Q. 21 · Q&A
Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
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Q. 22 · Q&A
How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
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Q. 23 · Q&A
What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
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Q. 24 · Q&A
How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
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Q. 25 · Q&A
How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
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Q. 26 · Q&A
How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
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Q. 27 · Q&A
Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
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Q. 28 · Q&A
Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?
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Q. 29 · Q&A
How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
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Q. 30 · Q&A
How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
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Q. 31 · Q&A
What is effectual calling?
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Q. 32 · Q&A
What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
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Q. 33 · Q&A
What is justification?
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Q. 34 · Q&A
What is adoption?
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Q. 35 · Q&A
What is sanctification?
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Q. 36 · Q&A
What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
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Q. 37 · Q&A
What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
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Q. 38 · Q&A
What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
The Moral Law (The Ten Commandments)
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Q. 39 · Q&A
What is the duty which God requireth of man?
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Q. 40 · Q&A
What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
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Q. 41 · Q&A
Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?
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Q. 42 · Q&A
What is the sum of the ten commandments?
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Q. 43 · Q&A
What is the preface to the ten commandments?
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Q. 44 · Q&A
What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
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Q. 45 · Q&A
Which is the first commandment?
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Q. 46 · Q&A
What is required in the first commandment?
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Q. 47 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the first commandment?
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Q. 48 · Q&A
What are we specially taught by these words, 'before me', in the first commandment?
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Q. 49 · Q&A
Which is the second commandment?
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Q. 50 · Q&A
What is required in the second commandment?
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Q. 51 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the second commandment?
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Q. 52 · Q&A
What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
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Q. 53 · Q&A
Which is the third commandment?
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Q. 54 · Q&A
What is required in the third commandment?
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Q. 55 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the third commandment?
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Q. 56 · Q&A
What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
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Q. 57 · Q&A
Which is the fourth commandment?
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Q. 58 · Q&A
What is required in the fourth commandment?
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Q. 59 · Q&A
Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
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Q. 60 · Q&A
How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
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Q. 61 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
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Q. 62 · Q&A
What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
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Q. 63 · Q&A
Which is the fifth commandment?
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Q. 64 · Q&A
What is required in the fifth commandment?
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Q. 65 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
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Q. 66 · Q&A
What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
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Q. 67 · Q&A
Which is the sixth commandment?
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Q. 68 · Q&A
What is required in the sixth commandment?
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Q. 69 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
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Q. 70 · Q&A
Which is the seventh commandment?
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Q. 71 · Q&A
What is required in the seventh commandment?
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Q. 72 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
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Q. 73 · Q&A
Which is the eighth commandment?
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Q. 74 · Q&A
What is required in the eighth commandment?
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Q. 75 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
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Q. 76 · Q&A
Which is the ninth commandment?
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Q. 77 · Q&A
What is required in the ninth commandment?
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Q. 78 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
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Q. 79 · Q&A
Which is the tenth commandment?
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Q. 80 · Q&A
What is required in the tenth commandment?
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Q. 81 · Q&A
What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
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Q. 82 · Q&A
Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
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Q. 83 · Q&A
Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
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Q. 84 · Q&A
What doth every sin deserve?
The Means of Grace
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Q. 85 · Q&A
What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
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Q. 86 · Q&A
What is faith in Jesus Christ?
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Q. 87 · Q&A
What is repentance unto life?
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Q. 88 · Q&A
What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
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Q. 89 · Q&A
How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
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Q. 90 · Q&A
How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
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Q. 91 · Q&A
How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
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Q. 92 · Q&A
What is a sacrament?
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Q. 93 · Q&A
Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
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Q. 94 · Q&A
What is Baptism?
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Q. 95 · Q&A
To whom is Baptism to be administered?
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Q. 96 · Q&A
What is the Lord's Supper?
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Q. 97 · Q&A
What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?
The Lord's Prayer
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Q. 98 · Q&A
What is prayer?
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Q. 99 · Q&A
What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
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Q. 100 · Q&A
What doth the preface of the Lord's Prayer teach us?
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Q. 101 · Q&A
What do we pray for in the first petition?
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Q. 102 · Q&A
What do we pray for in the second petition?
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Q. 103 · Q&A
What do we pray for in the third petition?
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Q. 104 · Q&A
What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
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Q. 105 · Q&A
What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
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Q. 106 · Q&A
What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
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Q. 107 · Q&A
What doth the conclusion of the Lord's Prayer teach us?