A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism
Question 90
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 90
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How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
That the word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive it with saith and love, lay it up in your hearts and practise it in our lives.
How must we attend upon the word?
With diligence, preparation, and praver.
Must we come diligently and frequently to the hearing and reading of it?
Yes.
And must we observe it, and attend to it with diligence, when we do read or hear it?
Yes.
Will negligent, slight, and seldom attendance upon the word be sufficient?
No.
Is prayer necessary to the making of the word effectual?
Yes.
Do we not rightly attend upon the word, except we make preparation for it before we come?
No.
What? must we pray before we come to it, and after we have been at it?
Yes.
And how must we receive it?
With faith and love.
What is it to receive the word with faith?
Soundly to believe the truth and goodness of it, and accept of both.
What is it to receive it with love?
Lovingly and willingly to embrace it.
What must we do with it, when we have received it?
Lay it up?
Where, in our heads only?
In our hearts.
Will it nothing avail us to attend to it, receive it, and retain it, except we practise it in our lives?
No.
Will the word be effectual to our salvation if thus attended to and received, thus laid up and practised.
Yes.
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