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<h3 id="p">Preface</h3>
<p>I am persuaded that the use of a good Catechism in all our families will be a great safeguard against the increasing errors
of the times, and therefore I have compiled this little manual from the Westminster Assembly’s and Baptist Catechisms,
for the use of my own church and congregation. Those who use it in their families or classes must labour to explain the
sense; but the words should be carefully learned by heart, for they will be understood better as years pass.
<br> May the Lord bless my dear friends and their families evermore, is the prayer of their loving Pastor.</p>
<p style="text-align: right">C. H. Spurgeon</p>
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<strong>Q. What is the chief end of man?</strong><br>
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
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<a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.10_31" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 10:31</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.73_25-26" target="_blank">Psalm 73:25-26</a>.
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<strong>Q. What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him?</strong><br>
A. The Word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments is the only rule to direct us how
we may glorify God and enjoy him.
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<a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.2_20" target="_blank">Ephesians 2:20</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Timothy.3_16" target="_blank">2 Timothy 3:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.John.1_3" target="_blank">1 John 1:3</a>.
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<strong>Q. What do the Scriptures principally teach?</strong><br>
A. The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
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<a href="https://goto.bible/2.Timothy.1_13" target="_blank">2 Timothy 1:13</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ecclesiastes.12_13" target="_blank">Ecclesiastes 12:13</a>
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<strong>Q. What is God?</strong><br>
A. God is Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.3_14" target="_blank">Exodus 3:14</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.34_6-7" target="_blank">Exodus 34:6-7</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Job.11_7" target="_blank">Job 11:7</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.90_2" target="_blank">Psalm 90:2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.147_5" target="_blank">Psalm 147:5</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.4_24" target="_blank">John 4:24</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Timothy.1_17" target="_blank">1 Timothy 1:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/James.1_17" target="_blank">James 1:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Revelation.4_8" target="_blank">Revelation 4:8</a>.
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<li id="q5">
<strong>Q. Are there more Gods than one?</strong><br>
A. There is but one only, the living and true God.
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<a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.6_4" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 6:4</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Jeremiah.10_10" target="_blank">Jeremiah 10:10</a>.
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<li id="q6">
<strong>Q. How many persons are there in the Godhead?</strong><br>
A. There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one God, the
same in essence, equal in power and glory.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.28_19" target="_blank">Matthew 28:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.John.5_7" target="_blank">1 John 5:7</a>.
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<li id="q7">
<strong>Q. What are the decrees of God?</strong><br>
A. The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his own will, whereby for his own glory he has
foreordained whatever comes to pass.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.1_11-12" target="_blank">Ephesians 1:11-12</a>.
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<li id="q8">
<strong>Q. How does God execute his decrees?</strong><br>
A. God executes his decrees in the works of creation, and providence.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Daniel.4_35" target="_blank">Daniel 4:35</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Revelation.4_11" target="_blank">Revelation 4:11</a>
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<li id="q9">
<strong>Q. What is the work of creation?</strong><br>
A. The work of creation is God’s making all things of nothing, by the Word of his power, in six normal consecutive
days, and all very good.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Genesis.1_1~31" target="_blank">Genesis 1:1,31</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_11" target="_blank">Exodus 20:11</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.11_3" target="_blank">Hebrews 11:3</a>
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<li id="q10">
<strong>Q. How did God create man?</strong><br>
A. God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness with dominion over
the creatures.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Genesis.1_27~28" target="_blank">Genesis 1:27,28</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Colossians.3_10" target="_blank">Colossians 3:10</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.4_24" target="_blank">Ephesians 4:24</a>.
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<li id="q11">
<strong>Q. What are God’s works of providence?</strong><br>
A. God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful, preserving and governing all his creatures,
and all their actions.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Isaiah.28_29" target="_blank">Isaiah 28:29</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.103_19" target="_blank">Psalm 103:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.145_17" target="_blank">Psalm 145:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.10_29" target="_blank">Matthew 10:29</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.1_3" target="_blank">Hebrews 1:3</a>.
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<li id="q12">
<strong>Q. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created?</strong><br>
A. 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 the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Genesis.2_17" target="_blank">Genesis 2:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Galatians.3_12" target="_blank">Galatians 3:12</a>.
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<li id="q13">
<strong>Q. Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were created?</strong><br>
A. Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the state wherein they were created, by sinning
against God, by eating the forbidden fruit.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Genesis.3_6-8" target="_blank">Genesis 3:6-8</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ecclesiastes.7_29" target="_blank">Ecclesiastes 7:29</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q14">
<strong>Q. What is sin?</strong><br>
A. Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/1.John.3_4" target="_blank">1 John 3:4</a>.
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</li>
<li id="q15">
<strong>Q. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?</strong><br>
A. 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.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.5_12" target="_blank">Romans 5:12</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.15_22" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 15:22</a>.
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</li>
<li id="q16">
<strong>Q. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?</strong><br>
A. The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.5_18" target="_blank">Romans 5:18</a>.
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</li>
<li id="q17">
<strong>Q. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?</strong><br>
A. The sinfulness of that state 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.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.51_5" target="_blank">Psalm 51:5</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.15_19" target="_blank">Matthew 15:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.3_10" target="_blank">Romans 3:10</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.5_19" target="_blank">Romans 5:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.2_1" target="_blank">Ephesians 2:1</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q18">
<strong>Q. What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?</strong><br>
A. All mankind, by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries
in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Genesis.3_8~24" target="_blank">Genesis 3:8,24</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.25_41" target="_blank">Matthew 25:41</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.6_23" target="_blank">Romans 6:23</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Galatians.3_10" target="_blank">Galatians 3:10</a> <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.2_3" target="_blank">Ephesians 2:3</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q19">
<strong>Q. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?</strong><br>
A. God having, out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant
of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.5_21" target="_blank">Romans 5:21</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Thessalonians.2_13" target="_blank">2 Thessalonians 2:13</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q20">
<strong>Q. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?</strong><br>
A. 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 continues to be God and man, in two distinct natures and one person for ever.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/John.1_14" target="_blank">John 1:14</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Colossians.2_9" target="_blank">Colossians 2:9</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Timothy.2_5" target="_blank">1 Timothy 2:5</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Timothy.3_16" target="_blank">1 Timothy 3:16</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q21">
<strong>Q. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?</strong><br>
A. Christ, the son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the
power of the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.26_38" target="_blank">Matthew 26:38</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Luke.1_31~35" target="_blank">Luke 1:31,35</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.2_14" target="_blank">Hebrews 2:14</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.4_15" target="_blank">Hebrews 4:15</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.7_26" target="_blank">Hebrews 7:26</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q22">
<strong>Q. What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?</strong><br>
A. Christ as our Redeemer executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his state of humiliation
and exaltation.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.2_6" target="_blank">Psalm 2:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.3_22" target="_blank">Acts 3:22</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.5_6" target="_blank">Hebrews 5:6</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q23">
<strong>Q. How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?</strong><br>
A. Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word, and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/John.1_18" target="_blank">John 1:18</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.14_26" target="_blank">John 14:26</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.20_31" target="_blank">John 20:31</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q24">
<strong>Q. How does Christ execute the office of a priest?</strong><br>
A. Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and
to reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.2_17" target="_blank">Hebrews 2:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.7_25" target="_blank">Hebrews 7:25</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.9_28" target="_blank">Hebrews 9:28</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q25">
<strong>Q. How does Christ execute the office of a king?</strong><br>
A. Christ executes 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.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.110_3" target="_blank">Psalm 110:3</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.2_6" target="_blank">Matthew 2:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.15_25" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 15:25</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q26">
<strong>Q. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?</strong><br>
A. 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.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Isaiah.53_3" target="_blank">Isaiah 53:3</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.12_40" target="_blank">Matthew 12:40</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.27_46" target="_blank">Matthew 27:46</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Luke.2_7" target="_blank">Luke 2:7</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Galatians.4_4" target="_blank">Galatians 4:4</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Philippians.2_8" target="_blank">Philippians 2:8</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q27">
<strong>Q. Wherein consists Christ’s exaltation?</strong><br>
A. Christ’s exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven,
and sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Mark.16_19" target="_blank">Mark 16:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.17_31" target="_blank">Acts 17:31</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.15_4" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 15:4</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q28">
<strong>Q. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?</strong><br>
A. We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/John.1_12" target="_blank">John 1:12</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Titus.3_5-6" target="_blank">Titus 3:5-6</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q29">
<strong>Q. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?</strong><br>
A. The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and by it uniting us to Christ
in our effectual calling.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.2_8" target="_blank">Ephesians 2:8</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.3_17" target="_blank">Ephesians 3:17</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q30">
<strong>Q. What is effectual calling?</strong><br>
A. 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 does persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ freely
offered to us in the gospel.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Ezekiel.36_26" target="_blank">Ezekiel 36:26</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.6_44-45" target="_blank">John 6:44-45</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.2_37" target="_blank">Acts 2:37</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.26_18" target="_blank">Acts 26:18</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Timothy.1_9" target="_blank">2 Timothy 1:9</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q31">
<strong>Q. What benefits do they who are effectually called, partake of in this life?</strong><br>
A. They who are effectually called, do in this life partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the various
benefits which in this life do either accompany, or flow from them.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.8_30" target="_blank">Romans 8:30</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.1_30" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 1:30</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.1_5" target="_blank">Ephesians 1:5</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q32">
<strong>Q. What is justification?</strong><br>
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in
his sight only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.3_24" target="_blank">Romans 3:24</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.5_19" target="_blank">Romans 5:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Corinthians.5_21" target="_blank">2 Corinthians 5:21</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Galatians.2_16" target="_blank">Galatians 2:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.1_7" target="_blank">Ephesians 1:7</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Philippians.3_9" target="_blank">Philippians 3:9</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q33">
<strong>Q. What is adoption?</strong><br>
A. 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.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/John.1_12" target="_blank">John 1:12</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.8_17" target="_blank">Romans 8:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.John.3_1" target="_blank">1 John 3:1</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q34">
<strong>Q. What is sanctification?</strong><br>
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and
are enabled more and more to die to sin, and live to righteousness.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.6_11" target="_blank">Romans 6:11</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.4_24" target="_blank">Ephesians 4:24</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Thessalonians.2_13" target="_blank">2 Thessalonians 2:13</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q35">
<strong>Q. What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?</strong><br>
A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, are assurance of God’s love, peace of
conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, increase of grace, perseverance in it to the end.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Proverbs.4_18" target="_blank">Proverbs 4:18</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.5_1-2~5" target="_blank">Romans 5:1-2,5</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.14_17" target="_blank">Romans 14:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Peter.1_5" target="_blank">1 Peter 1:5</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.John.5_13" target="_blank">1 John 5:13</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q36">
<strong>Q. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?</strong><br>
A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory, and their bodies,
being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Job.19_26" target="_blank">Job 19:26</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Isaiah.57_2" target="_blank">Isaiah 57:2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Luke.23_43" target="_blank">Luke 23:43</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Corinthians.5_8" target="_blank">2 Corinthians 5:8</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Philippians.1_23" target="_blank">Philippians 1:23</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Thessalonians.4_14" target="_blank">1 Thessalonians 4:14</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.12_2" target="_blank">Hebrews 12:2</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q37">
<strong>Q. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?</strong><br>
A. At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment,
and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.10_32" target="_blank">Matthew 10:32</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.15_43" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 15:43</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Thessalonians.4_17" target="_blank">1 Thessalonians 4:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.John.3_2" target="_blank">1 John 3:2</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q38">
<strong>Q. What shall be done to the wicked at their death?</strong><br>
A. The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves
till the resurrection, and judgement of the great day.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.49_14" target="_blank">Psalm 49:14</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Luke.16_22-24" target="_blank">Luke 16:22-24</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q39">
<strong>Q. What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?</strong><br>
A. At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with
their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Daniel.12_2" target="_blank">Daniel 12:2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.25_41" target="_blank">Matthew 25:41</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.5_28-29" target="_blank">John 5:28-29</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Thessalonians.1_9" target="_blank">2 Thessalonians 1:9</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q40">
<strong>Q. What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?</strong><br>
A. The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience, is the moral law, which is summarised in the ten commandments.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.10_4" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 10:4</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.19_17" target="_blank">Matthew 19:17</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q41">
<strong>Q. What is the sum of the ten commandments?</strong><br>
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 neighbour as ourselves.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.22_37-40" target="_blank">Matthew 22:37-40</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q42">
<strong>Q. Which is the first commandment?</strong><br>
A. The first commandment is, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_3" target="_blank">Exodus 20:3</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q43">
<strong>Q. What is required in the first commandment?</strong><br>
A. The first commandment requires us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God, and to worship
and glorify him accordingly.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.26_17" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 26:17</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Chronicles.28_9" target="_blank">1 Chronicles 28:9</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.4_10" target="_blank">Matthew 4:10</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q44">
<strong>Q. Which is the second commandment?</strong><br>
A. The second commandment is, “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 under 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 shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep
my commandments.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_4-6" target="_blank">Exodus 20:4-6</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q45">
<strong>Q. What is required in the second commandment?</strong><br>
A. The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and
ordinances as God has appointed in his Word.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.12_32" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 12:32</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.32_46" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 32:46</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.28_20" target="_blank">Matthew 28:20</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q46">
<strong>Q. What is forbidden in the second commandment?</strong><br>
A. The second commandment forbids the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his Word.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.4_15-16" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 4:15-16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Colossians.2_18" target="_blank">Colossians 2:18</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q47">
<strong>Q. Which is the third commandment?</strong><br>
A. The third commandment is, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless that takes his name in vain.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_7" target="_blank">Exodus 20:7</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q48">
<strong>Q. What is required in the third commandment?</strong><br>
A. The third commandment requires the holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word,
and works.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.28_58-59" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 28:58-59</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Job.36_24" target="_blank">Job 36:24</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.29_2" target="_blank">Psalm 29:2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.138_2" target="_blank">Psalm 138:2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ecclesiastes.5_1" target="_blank">Ecclesiastes 5:1</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Revelation.15_3-4" target="_blank">Revelation 15:3-4</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q49">
<strong>Q. Which is the fourth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The fourth commandment is, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, 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, nor thy maidservant, nor they cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the
Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_8-11" target="_blank">Exodus 20:8-11</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q50">
<strong>Q. What is required in the fourth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as he has appointed in his Word, expressly one
whole day in seven, to be a holy Sabbath to himself.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Leviticus.19_30" target="_blank">Leviticus 19:30</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Deuteronomy.5_12" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 5:12</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q51">
<strong>Q. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?</strong><br>
A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations
as are lawful on other days, and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship, except
so much as is taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Leviticus.23_3" target="_blank">Leviticus 23:3</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.92_1-2" target="_blank">Psalm 92:1-2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Isaiah.58_13-14" target="_blank">Isaiah 58:13-14</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.12_11-12" target="_blank">Matthew 12:11-12</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q52">
<strong>Q. Which is the fifth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The fifth commandment is, “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_12" target="_blank">Exodus 20:12</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q53">
<strong>Q. What is required in the fifth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties belonging to every one in their
various positions and relationships as superiors, inferiors, or equals.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.12_10" target="_blank">Romans 12:10</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.13_1" target="_blank">Romans 13:1</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.5_21-22" target="_blank">Ephesians 5:21-22</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.6_1~5~9" target="_blank">Ephesians 6:1,5,9</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q54">
<strong>Q. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity — as far as it shall serve for
God’s glory, and their own good — to all such as keep this commandment.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.6_2-3" target="_blank">Ephesians 6:2-3</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q55">
<strong>Q. Which is the sixth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The sixth commandment is, “Thou shalt not kill.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_13" target="_blank">Exodus 20:13</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q56">
<strong>Q. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatever tends
to it.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Genesis.9_6" target="_blank">Genesis 9:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Proverbs.24_11-12" target="_blank">Proverbs 24:11-12</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.16_28" target="_blank">Acts 16:28</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q57">
<strong>Q. Which is the seventh commandment?</strong><br>
A. The seventh commandment is, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_14" target="_blank">Exodus 20:14</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q58">
<strong>Q. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?</strong><br>
A. The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.5_28" target="_blank">Matthew 5:28</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.5_3~4" target="_blank">Ephesians 5:3,4</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Colossians.4_6" target="_blank">Colossians 4:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Timothy.2_22" target="_blank">2 Timothy 2:22</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q59">
<strong>Q. Which is the eighth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The eighth commandment is, “Thou shalt not steal.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_15" target="_blank">Exodus 20:15</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q60">
<strong>Q. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The eighth commandment forbids whatever does or may unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour’s wealth, or outward
estate.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Proverbs.21_6" target="_blank">Proverbs 21:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Proverbs.28_19" target="_blank">Proverbs 28:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.4_28" target="_blank">Ephesians 4:28</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Timothy.5_8" target="_blank">1 Timothy 5:8</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q61">
<strong>Q. Which is the ninth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The ninth commandment is, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_16" target="_blank">Exodus 20:16</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q62">
<strong>Q. What is required in the ninth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own, and our
neighbour’s good name, especially in witness-bearing.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Proverbs.14_5~25" target="_blank">Proverbs 14:5,25</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Zechariah.8_16" target="_blank">Zechariah 8:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.25_10" target="_blank">Acts 25:10</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Peter.3_16" target="_blank">1 Peter 3:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/3.John.12" target="_blank">3 John 12</a>.
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<strong>Q. What is the tenth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The tenth commandment is, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s
wife, nor his manservant, or his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s.”
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.20_17" target="_blank">Exodus 20:17</a>.
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<li id="q64">
<strong>Q. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?</strong><br>
A. The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour,
and all inordinate emotions and affections to anything that is his.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.10_10" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 10:10</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Galatians.5_26" target="_blank">Galatians 5:26</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Colossians.3_5" target="_blank">Colossians 3:5</a>.
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<li id="q65">
<strong>Q. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?</strong><br>
A. No mere man, since the fall, is able in his life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but does daily break them
in thought, word, and deed.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Genesis.8_21" target="_blank">Genesis 8:21</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ecclesiastes.7_20" target="_blank">Ecclesiastes 7:20</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/James.3_2~8" target="_blank">James 3:2,8</a>.
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<li id="q66">
<strong>Q. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?</strong><br>
A. Some sins in themselves, and by reason of various aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/John.19_11" target="_blank">John 19:11</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.John.5_16" target="_blank">1 John 5:16</a>.
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<li id="q67">
<strong>Q. What does every sin deserve?</strong><br>
A. Every sin deserves God’s wrath and curse, both in this life and that which is to come.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.11_6" target="_blank">Psalm 11:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Ephesians.5_6" target="_blank">Ephesians 5:6</a>.
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<li id="q68">
<strong>Q. How may we escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?</strong><br>
A. To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting alone to
his blood and righteousness. This faith is attended by repentance for the past and leads to holiness in the future.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/John.3_16" target="_blank">John 3:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.20_21" target="_blank">Acts 20:21</a>.
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<li id="q69">
<strong>Q. What is faith in Jesus Christ?</strong><br>
A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive, and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is set forth
in the gospel.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Isaiah.33_22" target="_blank">Isaiah 33:22</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.1_12" target="_blank">John 1:12</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Philippians.3_9" target="_blank">Philippians 3:9</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.10_39" target="_blank">Hebrews 10:39</a>.
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<li id="q70">
<strong>Q. What is repentance to life?</strong><br>
A. Repentance to life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sins, and apprehension of the mercy
of God in Christ, does with grief and hatred of his sin turn from it to God, with full purpose to strive after new obedience.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.119_59" target="_blank">Psalm 119:59</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Jeremiah.31_18-19" target="_blank">Jeremiah 31:18-19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Joel.2_13" target="_blank">Joel 2:13</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.2_37" target="_blank">Acts 2:37</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.11_18" target="_blank">Acts 11:18</a>.
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<li id="q71">
<strong>Q. What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?</strong><br>
A. The outward and ordinary means whereby the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of Christ’s redemption,
are the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, Prayer, and Meditation,
by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.2_41-42" target="_blank">Acts 2:41-42</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/James.1_18" target="_blank">James 1:18</a>.
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<li id="q72">
<strong>Q. How is the Word made effectual to salvation?</strong><br>
A. The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convicting and
converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith to salvation.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.19_7" target="_blank">Psalm 19:7</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.1_16" target="_blank">Romans 1:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Thessalonians.1_6" target="_blank">1 Thessalonians 1:6</a>.
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<li id="q73">
<strong>Q. How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?</strong><br>
A. That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive
it with faith, and love, lay it up into our hearts, and practise it in our lives.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Psalm.119_11~18" target="_blank">Psalm 119:11,18</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Proverbs.8_34" target="_blank">Proverbs 8:34</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Thessalonians.2_10" target="_blank">2 Thessalonians 2:10</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Hebrews.4_2" target="_blank">Hebrews 4:2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/James.1_25" target="_blank">James 1:25</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Peter.2_1-2" target="_blank">1 Peter 2:1-2</a>.
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<li id="q74">
<strong>Q. How do Baptism and the Lord’s Supper become spiritually helpful?</strong><br>
A. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper become spiritually helpful, not from any virtue in them, or in him who does administer
them, but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of the Spirit in those who by faith receive them.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.3_6~7" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 3:6,7</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.12_13" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 12:13</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Peter.3_21" target="_blank">1 Peter 3:21</a>.
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<li id="q75">
<strong>Q. What is Baptism?</strong><br>
A. Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptised a sign of his
fellowship with him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being ingrafted into him, of remission of sins,
and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.28_19" target="_blank">Matthew 28:19</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Mark.1_4" target="_blank">Mark 1:4</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.22_16" target="_blank">Acts 22:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Romans.6_3-5" target="_blank">Romans 6:3-5</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Galatians.3_27" target="_blank">Galatians 3:27</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Colossians.2_12" target="_blank">Colossians 2:12</a>.
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<li id="q76">
<strong>Q. To whom is Baptism to be administered?</strong><br>
A. Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus
Christ, and to none other.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.3_6" target="_blank">Matthew 3:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Mark.16_16" target="_blank">Mark 16:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.2_38" target="_blank">Acts 2:38</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.8_12~36-37" target="_blank">Acts 8:12,36-37</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.10_47-48" target="_blank">Acts 10:47-48</a>.
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<li id="q77">
<strong>Q. Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptised?</strong><br>
A. The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptised, because there is neither command nor example
in the Holy Scriptures for their baptism.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Exodus.23_13" target="_blank">Exodus 23:13</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Proverbs.30_6" target="_blank">Proverbs 30:6</a>.
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<li id="q78">
<strong>Q. How is baptism rightly administered?</strong><br>
A. Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ’s institution, and the practice of the apostles,
and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.3_16" target="_blank">Matthew 3:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Matthew.28_19-20" target="_blank">Matthew 28:19-20</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.3_23" target="_blank">John 3:23</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/John.4_1-2" target="_blank">John 4:1-2</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.8_38-39" target="_blank">Acts 8:38-39</a>.
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<li id="q79">
<strong>Q. What is the duty of such as are rightly baptized?</strong><br>
A. It is the duty of such as are rightly baptized, to give up themselves to some particular and orderly Church of Jesus
Christ, that they may walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Luke.1_6" target="_blank">Luke 1:6</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.2_47" target="_blank">Acts 2:47</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.9_26" target="_blank">Acts 9:26</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Peter.2_5" target="_blank">1 Peter 2:5</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q80">
<strong>Q. What is the Lord’s Supper?</strong><br>
A. The Lord’s Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein, by giving and receiving
bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal
and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment,
and growth in grace.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.10_16" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 10:16</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.11_23-26" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 11:23-26</a>.
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<li id="q81">
<strong>Q. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?</strong><br>
A. It is required of them who would worthily partake of the Lord’s Supper, that they examine themselves of their
knowledge to discern the Lord’s body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience,
lest coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.5_8" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 5:8</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Corinthians.11_18-20~27-29~31" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 11:18-20,27-29,31</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/2.Corinthians.13_5" target="_blank">2 Corinthians 13:5</a>.
</div>
</li>
<li id="q82">
<strong>Q. What is meant by the words, “until he come,” which are used by the apostle Paul in reference to the Lord’s
Supper?</strong><br>
A. They plainly teach us that our Lord Jesus Christ will come a second time; which is the joy and hope of all believers.
<div class="references">
<a href="https://goto.bible/Acts.1_11" target="_blank">Acts 1:11</a>; <a href="https://goto.bible/1.Thessalonians.4_16" target="_blank">1 Thessalonians 4:16</a>
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