Question 115

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Why will God then have the ten commands so strictly preached, since no man in this life can keep them?

First: that all our life time, we may learn more and more to know our sinful nature,^a and thus become the more earnest in seeking the remission of sin, and righteousness in Christ;^b likewise, that we constantly endeavour and pray to God for the grace of the holy spirit; that we may become more and more conformable to the image of God, till we arrive at the perfection proposed to us, in a life to come.^c

Proofs

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Commentary

Jeremias Bastingius, A Catechisme of Christian Religion, with the Arguments and Use (1591), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on this question
Zacharias Ursinus, The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), on Q. 113–115

Related texts

An Orthodox Catechism (1680) Q. 137

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Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Q. 115, symbolics.dev/heidelberg/115

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