Heidelberg Catechism · Lord’s Day 46
Question 120
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Why hath Christ commanded us to address God thus: “Our Father?”
That immediately, in the very beginning of our prayer, he might excite in us a child-like reverence for, and confidence in God, which are the foundation of our prayer: namely, that God has become our Father in Christ,a and will much less deny us what we ask of him in true faith, than our parents will refuse us earthly things.b
Proofs
Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.
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. 116–121
Related texts
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Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Q. 120, symbolics.dev/heidelberg/120
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