Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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57. What is the fourth commandment?
The fourth commandment is, "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six day the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

58. What is required in the fourth commandment?
The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as He hath appointed in His Word, expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy Sabbath to Himself.

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53. What is the third commandment?
The third commandment is, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain."

54. What is required in the third commandment?
The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God's name, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.

55. What is forbidden in the third commandment?
The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh Himself known.

56. What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
The reason annexed to the third commandment is that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape His righteous judgment.

Friday, September 18, 2009

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49. Which is the second commandment?
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water beneath the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them: for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments.

50. What is required in the second commandment?
The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in His Word.

51. What is forbidden in the second commandment?
The second commandment forbiddeth the worshiping of God by images or any other way not appointed in His Word.

52. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
The reasons annexed to the second commandment are God's sovereignty over us, His propriety in us, and the zeal He hath to His own worship.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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47. What is forbidden in the first commandment?
The first commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying, the true God as God and our God, and the giving of that worship and glory to any other which is due to Him alone.

48. What are we specially taught by these words "before me" in the first commandment?
These words "before me" in the first commandment teach us that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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45. What is the first commandment?
The first commandment is, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

46. What is required in the first commandment?
The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God, and to worship and glorify Him accordingly.

Monday, September 14, 2009

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39. What is the duty which God requireth of man?
The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to His revealed will.

40. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
The rule at which God first revealed to man for his obedience was the moral law.

41. Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?
The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.

42. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
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.

43. What is the preface for the ten commandments?
The preface for 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."

44. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
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.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

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37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory, and their bodies, being still united in Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.

38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgement and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God for all eternity.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

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35. What is sanctification?
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 and live unto righteousness.

36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.

Monday, September 07, 2009

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33. What is justification?
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 Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

34. What is adoption?
Adoption is an act is God's free grace whereby we are received into the number and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.

Friday, September 04, 2009

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31. What is effectual calling?
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 renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.

32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.

Thursday, September 03, 2009

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29. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ by the effectual application of it to us by His Holy Spirit.

30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ by working faith in us and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

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27. Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
Christ's humiliation consisted in His being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross, in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.

28. Wherein consisteth Christ's exultation?
Christ's exultation consisteth in His rising again from the death on the third day, in ascending up to heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world on the last day.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

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25. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
Christ executeth the office of a priest in His once offering up of Himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God and in making continual intercession for us.

26. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
Christ executeth the office of a king in subduing us to Himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all His and our enemies.