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