Question 21-40

Question 1

Question 21: Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?

Answer 1

The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ,1 who, being the eternal Son of God,2 became man,3 and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.4

Question 2

Question 22: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

Answer 2

Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul,1 being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her,2 yet without sin.3

Question 3

Question 23: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?

Answer 3

Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet,1 of a priest,2 and of a king,3 both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.

Question 4

Question 24: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?

Answer 4

Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word1 and Spirit,2 the will of God for our salvation.3

Question 5

Question 25: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?

Answer 5

Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice,1 and reconcile us to God,2 and in making continual intercession for us.3

Question 6

Question 26: How doth Christ execute the office of a king?

Answer 6

Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us,1 and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.2

Question 7

Question 27: Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?

Answer 7

Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition,1 made under the law,2 undergoing the miseries of this life,3 the wrath of God,4 and the cursed death of the cross;5 in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.6

Question 8

Question 28: Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?

Answer 8

Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day,1 in ascending up into heaven,2 in sitting at the right hand3 of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.4

Question 9

Question 29: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?

Answer 9

We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.1

Question 10

Question 30: How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ

Answer 10

The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us,1 and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.2

Question 11

Question 31: What is effectual calling?

Answer 11

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,1 and renewing our wills,2 he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ,3 freely offered to us in the gospel.4

Question 12

Question 32: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?

Answer 12

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.1

Question 13

Question 33: What is justification?

Answer 13

Justification is an act of God’s free grace,1 wherein he pardoneth all our sins,2 and accepteth us as righteous in His sight,3 only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us,4 and received by faith alone.5

Question 14

Question 34: What is adoption?

Answer 14

Adoption is an act of God’s free grace,a whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.1

Question 15

Question 35: What is sanctification?

Answer 15

Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace,1 whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God,2 and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.3

Question 16

Question 36: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

Answer 16

The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love,1 peace of conscience,2 joy in the Holy Ghost,3 increase of grace,4 and perseverance therein to the end.5

Question 17

Question 37: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?

Answer 17

The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness,1 and do immediately pass into glory;2 and their bodies, being still united in Christ,3 do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.4

Question 18

Question 38: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

Answer 18

At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory,1 shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment,2 and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God3 to all eternity.4

Question 19

Question 39: What is the duty which God requireth of man?

Answer 19

The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.1

Question 20

Question 40: What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?

Answer 20

The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law.1