THE WESTMINSTER STANDARDS
Westminster Shorter Catechism
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- Question 1What is the chief end of man?
- Question 2What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
- Question 3What do the Scriptures principally teach?
- Question 4What is God?
- Question 5Are there more Gods than one?
- Question 6How many persons are there in the Godhead?
- Question 7What are the decrees of God?
- Question 8How doth God execute his decrees?
- Question 9What is the work of creation?
- Question 10How did God create man?
- Question 11What are God’s works of providence?
- Question 12What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
- Question 13Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
- Question 14What is sin?
- Question 15What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
- Question 16Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
- Question 17Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
- Question 18Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
- Question 19What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
- Question 20Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
- Question 21Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
- Question 22How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
- Question 23What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
- Question 24How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
- Question 25How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
- Question 26How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
- Question 27Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
- Question 28Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?
- Question 29How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
- Question 30How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
- Question 31What is effectual calling?
- Question 32What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
- Question 33What is justification?
- Question 34What is adoption?
- Question 35What is sanctification?
- Question 36What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
- Question 37What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
- Question 38What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
- Question 39What is the duty which God requireth of man?
- Question 40What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
- Question 41Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
- Question 42What is the sum of the ten commandments?
- Question 43What is the preface to the ten commandments?
- Question 44What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
- Question 45Which is the first commandment?
- Question 46What is required in the first commandment?
- Question 47What is forbidden in the first commandment?
- Question 48What are we specially taught by these words, “before me,” in the first commandment?
- Question 49Which is the second commandment?
- Question 50What is required in the second commandment?
- Question 51What is forbidden in the second commandment?
- Question 52What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
- Question 53Which is the third commandment?
- Question 54What is required in the third commandment?
- Question 55What is forbidden in the third commandment?
- Question 56What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
- Question 57Which is the fourth commandment?
- Question 58What is required in the fourth commandment?
- Question 59Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
- Question 60How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
- Question 61What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
- Question 62What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
- Question 63Which is the fifth commandment?
- Question 64What is required in the fifth commandment?
- Question 65What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
- Question 66What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
- Question 67Which is the sixth commandment?
- Question 68What is required in the sixth commandment?
- Question 69What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
- Question 70What is the seventh commandment?
- Question 71What is required in the seventh commandment?
- Question 72What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
- Question 73Which is the eighth commandment?
- Question 74What is required in the eighth commandment?
- Question 75What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
- Question 76Which is the ninth commandment?
- Question 77What is required in the ninth commandment?
- Question 78What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
- Question 79Which is the tenth commandment?
- Question 80What is required in the tenth commandment?
- Question 81What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
- Question 82Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
- Question 83Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
- Question 84What doth every sin deserve?
- Question 85What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
- Question 86What is faith in Jesus Christ?
- Question 87What is repentance unto life?
- Question 88What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
- Question 89How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
- Question 90How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
- Question 91How do the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
- Question 92What is a Sacrament?
- Question 93Which are the Sacraments of the New Testament?
- Question 94What is Baptism?
- Question 95To whom is Baptism to be administered?
- Question 96What is the Lord’s Supper?
- Question 97What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?
- Question 98What is prayer?
- Question 99What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
- Question 100What doth the preface of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
- Question 101What do we pray for in the first petition?
- Question 102What do we pray for in the second petition?
- Question 103What do we pray for in the third petition?
- Question 104What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
- Question 105What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
- Question 106What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
- Question 107What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?