A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism
Question 38
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 38
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What benefit 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 judgment, and made perfectly blessed in full enjoying of God to all eternity.
Shall believers be raised up?
Yes.
When?
At the Resurrection.
What do you mean by the Resurrection?
The rising from the dead.
What estate shall believers be raised in?
In glory.
Who shall be raised in glory?
Believers.
Shall they rise in such an estate as they were in before?
No.
What benefits shall believers have at Judgment?
They shall be acknowledged, and acquitted.
After what manner shall they be acknowledged and acquitted?
Openly.
Will God acquit them from all their sins, and the wicked slanders?
Yes.
And acknowledg and own them before all the world?
Yes.
When shall they be thus acknowledged and acquitted?
In the day of Judgment.
What benefits shall they have after Judgment?
They shall be made perfectly blessed.
Wherein?
In the enjoyment of God.
What kind of enjoyment of God shall they then have?
A full enjoyment.
What without interruption, or intermission?
Yes.
For how long?
To all eternity.
Doth true blessedness stand in the enjoyment of God?
Yes.
And perfect blessedness in the full enjoyment of God, to all eternity?
Yes. Hitherto are the matters of faith, which make up the first part of the Catechism, or what man is to believe concerning God. Now follows the second part concerning the duty of which God requires of man.
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