A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism
Question 82
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 82
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Is any man able perfectly to keep the Commandments of God?
No meer 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.
Was Adam able perfectly to keep the Commandments of God before the fall?
Yes.
Is man able perfectly to keep them now?
No.
How long hath man been rendred unable perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
Since the fall.
Christ was a man, and was not ee able perfectly to keep the Commandments of God though since the fall?
He was not a meer man.
What do you mean by meer man?
One that is only a man.
Is Christ not a meer man then, but God as well as man?
Yes
Shall we be able to keep Gods Commandments perfectly after this life, if we get to heaven?
Yes.
When then is man able perfectly to keep them?
In this life.
May not we keep them sincerely in this life?
Yes.
How cannot we keep them then in this life?
Not perfectly.
Do we break Gods Commandments?
Yes.
What, daily, and continually?
Yes.
In what?
In thought, word, and deed.
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