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59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the Sabbath, and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.

60. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreation as are lawful on other days, and spending the whole time in public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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23. What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?

Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in His estate of humiliation and exaltation.

24. How doth Christ execute the office of prophet?

Christ executeth the office of prophet in revealing to us, by His Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.

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21. Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?

The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ who, being the eternal Son of God, became man and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever.

22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived be the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary and born of her, yet without sin.

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19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?

All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under His wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?

God, having out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.

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17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?

The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.

18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?

The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.

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15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?

The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit.

16. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in his first transgression.

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13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

Our first parents, being left to freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created by sinning against God.

14. What is sin?

Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.

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11. What are God's works of providence?

God's works of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures and all their actions.

12. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?

When God had created man, He entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.