Lesson 11

Question 1

1. Explain Duncan and Calvin’s similar emphasis on how the sacraments are seals.

Question 2

2. Cara states that WCF 28.6 is partially against adult baptismal regeneration. Explain his rationale. (“The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered”[WCF 28.6].)

Question 3

3. Is the following a quote from the WLC 197 or the Catechism of the Catholic Church, §1371? “The Eucharist sacrifice is also offered for the faithful departed who have died in X but who are not yet wholly purified, so that they may be able to enter into the light and peace of X.”

Answer 3

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Question 4

4. Of which creed is James Ussher the primary author?

Answer 4

Irish Articles

Question 5

5. In what significant way does the Irish Articles’ section on “Civil Magistrate” agree with the Thirty-Nine Articles and disagree with the WS?

Answer 5

King is over church and he is “supreme government.”

Question 6

6. The following quote is from which Reformation creed and includes a quote from whose homily? “We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, applied by faith, and not for our own works or merits. . . . Although this justification be free unto us, yet it cometh not so freely unto us that there is no ransom paid therefore at all.”

Answer 6

Irish Articles
Cranmer’s “Of Salvation” Homily