THE WESTMINSTER STANDARDS
Westminster Larger Catechism
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- Question 1What is the chief and highest end of man?
- Question 2How doth it appear that there is a God?
- Question 3What is the Word of God?
- Question 4How doth it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God?
- Question 5What do the Scriptures principally teach?
- Question 6What do the Scriptures make known of God?
- Question 7What is God?
- Question 8Are there more Gods than one?
- Question 9How many persons are there in the Godhead?
- Question 10What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead?
- Question 11How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father?
- Question 12What are the decrees of God?
- Question 13What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?
- Question 14How doth God execute his decrees?
- Question 15What is the work of creation?
- Question 16How did God create angels?
- Question 17How did God create man?
- Question 18What are God’s works of providence?
- Question 19What is God’s providence toward the angels?
- Question 20What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created?
- Question 21Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?
- Question 22Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?
- Question 23Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
- Question 24What is sin?
- Question 25Wherein consisteth the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
- Question 26How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
- Question 27What misery did the fall bring upon mankind?
- Question 28What are the punishments of sin in this world?
- Question 29What are the punishments of sin in the world to come?
- Question 30Doth God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
- Question 31With whom was the covenant of grace made?
- Question 32How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant?
- Question 33Was the covenant of grace always administered after one and the same manner?
- Question 34How was the covenant of grace administered under the Old Testament?
- Question 35How is the covenant of grace administered under the New Testament?
- Question 36Who is the Mediator of the covenant of grace?
- Question 37How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
- Question 38Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God?
- Question 39Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man?
- Question 40Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person?
- Question 41Why was our Mediator called Jesus?
- Question 42Why was our Mediator called Christ?
- Question 43How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
- Question 44How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
- Question 45How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
- Question 46What was the estate of Christ’s humiliation?
- Question 47How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
- Question 48How did Christ humble himself in his life?
- Question 49How did Christ humble himself in his death?
- Question 50Wherein consisted Christ’s humiliation after his death?
- Question 51What was the estate of Christ’s exaltation?
- Question 52How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?
- Question 53How was Christ exalted in his ascension?
- Question 54How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God?
- Question 55How doth Christ make intercession?
- Question 56How is Christ to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world?
- Question 57What benefits hath Christ procured by his mediation?
- Question 58How do we come to be made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured?
- Question 59Who are made partakers of redemption through Christ?
- Question 60Can they who have never heard of the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature?
- Question 61Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the Church?
- Question 62What is the visible Church?
- Question 63What are the special privileges of the visible Church?
- Question 64What is the invisible Church?
- Question 65What special benefits do the members of the invisible Church enjoy by Christ?
- Question 66What is that union which the elect have with Christ?
- Question 67What is effectual calling?
- Question 68Are the elect only effectually called?
- Question 69What is the communion in grace, which the members of the invisible Church have with Christ?
- Question 70What is justification?
- Question 71How is justification an act of God’s free grace?
- Question 72What is justifying faith?
- Question 73How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?
- Question 74What is adoption?
- Question 75What is sanctification?
- Question 76What is repentance unto life?
- Question 77Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?
- Question 78Whence ariseth the imperfection of sanctification in believers?
- Question 79May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace?
- Question 80Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace, and that they shall persevere therein unto salvation?
- Question 81Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved?
- Question 82What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible Church have with Christ?
- Question 83What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible Church enjoy in this life?
- Question 84Shall all men die?
- Question 85Death, being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?
- Question 86What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible Church enjoy immediately after death?
- Question 87What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?
- Question 88What shall immediately follow after the resurrection?
- Question 89What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
- Question 90What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?
- Question 91What is the duty which God requireth of man?
- Question 92What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience?
- Question 93What is the moral law?
- Question 94Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall?
- Question 95Of what use is the moral law to all men?
- Question 96What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men?
- Question 97What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?
- Question 98Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
- Question 99What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the ten commandments?
- Question 100What special things are we to consider in the ten commandments?
- Question 101What is the preface to the ten commandments?
- Question 102What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God?
- Question 103Which is the first commandment?
- Question 104What are the duties required in the first commandment?
- Question 105What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?
- Question 106What are we especially taught by these words (before me) in the first commandment?
- Question 107Which is the second commandment?
- Question 108What are the duties required in the second commandment?
- Question 109What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment?
- Question 110What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?
- Question 111Which is the third commandment?
- Question 112What is required in the third commandment?
- Question 113What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?
- Question 114What reasons are annexed to the third commandment?
- Question 115Which is the fourth commandment?
- Question 116What is required in the fourth commandment?
- Question 117How is the sabbath or the Lord’s day to be sanctified?
- Question 118Why is the charge of keeping the sabbath more specially directed to governors of families and other superiors?
- Question 119What are the sins forbidden in the fourth commandment?
- Question 120What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it?
- Question 121Why is the word remember set in the beginning of the fourth commandment?
- Question 122What is the sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man?
- Question 123Which is the fifth commandment?
- Question 124Who are meant by father and mother in the fifth commandment?
- Question 125Why are superiors styled father and mother?
- Question 126What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?
- Question 127What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors?
- Question 128What are the sins of inferiors against their superiors?
- Question 129What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?
- Question 130What are the sins of superiors?
- Question 131What are the duties of equals?
- Question 132What are the sins of equals?
- Question 133What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it?
- Question 134Which is the sixth commandment?
- Question 135What are the duties required in the sixth commandment?
- Question 136What are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment?
- Question 137Which is the seventh commandment?
- Question 138What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
- Question 139What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
- Question 140Which is the eighth commandment?
- Question 141What are the duties required in the eighth commandment?
- Question 142What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment?
- Question 143Which the ninth commandment?
- Question 144What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?
- Question 145What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
- Question 146Which is the tenth commandment?
- Question 147What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?
- Question 148What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?
- Question 149Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
- Question 150Are all transgressions of the law of God equally heinous in themselves, and in the sight of God?
- Question 151What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?
- Question 152What doth every sin deserve at the hands of God?
- Question 153What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us by reason of the transgression of the law?
- Question 154What are the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of his mediation?
- Question 155How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
- Question 156Is the Word of God to be read by all?
- Question 157How is the Word of God to be read?
- Question 158By whom is the Word of God to be preached?
- Question 159How is the Word of God to be preached by those that are called thereunto?
- Question 160What is required of those that hear the Word preached?
- Question 161How do the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
- Question 162What is a Sacrament?
- Question 163What are the parts of a Sacrament?
- Question 164How many Sacraments hath Christ instituted in his Church under the New Testament?
- Question 165What is Baptism?
- Question 166Unto whom is Baptism to be administered?
- Question 167How is our Baptism to be improved by us?
- Question 168What is the Lord’s Supper?
- Question 169How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper?
- Question 170How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord’s Supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?
- Question 171How are they that receive the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it?
- Question 172May one who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation, come to the Lord’s Supper?
- Question 173May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the Lord’s Supper, be kept from it?
- Question 174What is required of them that receive the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper in the time of the administration of it?
- Question 175What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper?
- Question 176Wherein do the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper agree?
- Question 177Wherein do the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper differ?
- Question 178What is prayer?
- Question 179Are we to pray unto God only?
- Question 180What is it to pray in the name of Christ?
- Question 181Why are we to pray in the name of Christ?
- Question 182How doth the Spirit help us to pray?
- Question 183For whom are we to pray?
- Question 184For what things are we to pray?
- Question 185How are we to pray?
- Question 186What rule hath God given for our direction in the duty of prayer?
- Question 187How is the Lord’s Prayer to be used?
- Question 188Of how many parts doth the Lord’s prayer consist?
- Question 189What doth the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us?
- Question 190What do we pray for in the first petition?
- Question 191What do we pray for in the second petition?
- Question 192What do we pray for in the third petition?
- Question 193What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
- Question 194What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
- Question 195What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
- Question 196What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?