American Literature Supplement Lesson 9 : Part 2 Flashcards
What is the chief end of man?
Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever
What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
The word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him.
What do the Scriptures principally teach?
The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
What is God?
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Are there more Gods then one?
There is but one only, the living and true God.
how many persons are there in Godhead?
There are three persons in the Godhead–the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
What are the decrees?
The decrees of God are, His eternal purpose, according to the counsel of His own glory, He hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass.
How doth God execute His decrees?
God executeth His decrees in the works of creation and providence.
What is the word of creation?
The work of creation is God’s making all nothing, by the word of His power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
How did God create man?
god created man male and female, after His own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
What are God’s work of providence?
God’s work of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures, and all their actions.
What special act of providence did God exercise toward 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.
Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell form the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
What is sin?
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
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.
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 first transgression.
Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate wherein to 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.
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 miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
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 salvation by a Redeemer.
Whois 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.
How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking too Himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her yet without sin.
What offices does christ execute as our Redeemer?
Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in His estate of humiliation and exaltation.
How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by His word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
Christ executes 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.
How does Christ execute the office of a king?
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.
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.
Wherein consists Christ’s exaltation?
Christ’s exaltation consists in His rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.
How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.
How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
he How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.
What benefits do they that are effectually called partake 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.
What is justification?
Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein He pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
What is adoption?
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 Son of God.
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.
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 assurances of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
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 to Christ, do rest in their graves til the resurrection.
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 to all eternity.
What is the duty which God requires of man?
The duty which God requires of man is obedience to His revealed will.
What did God at first reveal?
The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience was the Moral Law.
Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended?
The Moral Law summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandment.
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, all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbors as ourselves.
