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WSC - For Presbytery Flashcards

Just the 107 questions and answers that make up the Shorter Catechism.

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

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  1. How many persons are there in the Godhead?
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A. 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.

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  1. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
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A. 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.

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  1. What is baptism?
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A. Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.

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  1. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
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A. 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 of salvation by a Redeemer.

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  1. What is a sacrament?
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A. A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ; wherein, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.

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  1. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
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A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.

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  1. Are there more Gods than one?
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A. There is but one only, the living and true God.

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  1. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
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A. 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.

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  1. To whom is Baptism to be administered?
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A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized.

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  1. What is adoption?
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A. 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 sons of God.

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  1. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
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A. 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 continues to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.

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  1. What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?
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A. It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord’s Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord’s body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

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  1. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
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A. The sum of the ten commandments is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves.

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  1. How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
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A. The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.

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  1. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
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A. 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.

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  1. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
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A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united in Christ, do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.

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  1. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
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A. Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.

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

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  1. What is sanctification?
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A. 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.

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  1. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
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A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law.

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  1. How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
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A. The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching, of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation.

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  1. What is faith in Jesus Christ?
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A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.

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  1. What are God’s works of providence?
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A. God’s works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.

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  1. What is God?
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A. God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

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  1. What do the Scriptures principally teach?
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A. The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.

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  1. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
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A. Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.

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  1. What is the Lord’s Supper?
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A. The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.

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  1. What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
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A. The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called the Lord’s Prayer.

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  1. What is the duty which God requires of man?
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A. The duty which God requires of man, is obedience to his revealed will.

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  1. Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?
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A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.

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  1. How did God create man?
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A. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

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  1. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
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A. 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.

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  1. What is prayer?
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A. Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.

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  1. What is justification?
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A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

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  1. What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
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A. To escape the wrath and curse of God, due to us for sin, God requires of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life, with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption.

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  1. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
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A. 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.

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  1. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
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A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

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  1. What doth every sin deserve?
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A. Every sin deserves God’s wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.

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  1. What is effectual calling?
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A. 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, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.

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  1. What are the decrees of God?
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A. The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.

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  1. How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
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A. That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.

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  1. What is the preface to the ten commandments?
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A. The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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  1. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
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A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.

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  1. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
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A. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.

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  1. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?
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A. 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 the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.

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  1. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
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A. No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.

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  1. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
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A. 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 his first transgression.

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  1. What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
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A. 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.

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  1. How doth God execute his decrees?
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A. God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence.

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  1. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
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A. Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to 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.

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  1. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
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A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

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  1. Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
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A. The sacraments of the New Testament are, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.

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  1. What is repentance unto life?
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A. Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.

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  1. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
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A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.

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  1. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
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A. 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.

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  1. What is the work of creation?
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A. The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.

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  1. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
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A. The preface to the ten commandments teaches us, that because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments.

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  1. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
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A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.

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  1. Wherein consists Christ’s exaltation?
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A. 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.

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  1. What is sin?
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A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.

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  1. What is the chief end of man?
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A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

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