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Title page of Lye’s Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions, its first printing (London, 1672); no portrait of Thomas Lye alone is known
Title page, London, 1672 (EEBO’s film)

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The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions

1672 · 107 entries

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By
Thomas Lye
Dates
first published 1672
Tradition
reformed, presbyterian
Also called
The Assembly’s Shorter Catechism Drawn Out into Distinct Propositions
Follows
The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into distinct Propositions, and Proved by plain and pertinent Texts of Scripture at large. With short Rules of Direction for Masters of Families, how to use this Book to the best advantage, the printing of 1674 (London); Wing L3528, ESTC R37616 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org
Transcribed
From EEBO-TCP A49498Checked against a copy at archive.org: where the import report flagged A49498 (its gaps and references), and the misreadings in its black-letter answers, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-28
License
Public domain
Notes

By Thomas Lye (1621–1684), ejected from All Hallows Lombard Street in 1662. It sets out each of the Assembly’s answers, then draws it out into numbered propositions, each proved by a text or more printed at large, and divides the whole into thirty parts, a day’s reading each, marked in the margin. Each entry is the question as Lye prints it and its answer, and its day is the entry’s part. A lead (“Mans chief end is,”) is an item without a question, its propositions items without a question under it; a proposition’s references are its proofs, and its proof as printed, the reference and the verse, its note. The verses are as Lye prints them, not the KJV’s, and the words he sets in another letter to show where a text’s force lies are not marked. The earliest printing known is “London, Printed in the Year 1672” (archive.org, bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-assemblies-shorter-c_lye-thomas_1672). This text is the printing of 1674 as EEBO-TCP transcribed it (A49498), and the scan is EEBO’s film of it, dark, and cut off at the outer margin, where the TCP’s gaps are kept as it has them. Its “Plain Directions for the more profitable use of this Book” are prose/directions; its half-title and Thomas Parkhurst’s list of books are left out. Imported by scripts/import-tcp.mjs (--kind commentary --propositions), and proofread against the scan only where the import report pointed.

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Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)
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Prefaces and appendices

Contents

First Day of the Month

  1. 1What is the chief end of Man?WSC Q. 1
  2. 2What Rule hath God given to direct us, how we may glorifie, and enjoy him?WSC Q. 2
  3. 3What do the Scriptures principally teach?WSC Q. 3
  4. 4What is God?WSC Q. 4

Second Day

  1. 5Are there more Gods than one?WSC Q. 5
  2. 6How many persons are there in the Godhead?WSC Q. 6
  3. 7What are the Decrees of God?WSC Q. 7
  4. 8How doth God execute his Decrees?WSC Q. 8

Third Day

  1. 9What in the work of Creation?WSC Q. 9
  2. 10How did God create Man?WSC Q. 10
  3. 11What are Gods works of Providence?WSC Q. 11
  4. 12What special act of Providence did God exercise toward Man, in the estate wherein he was created?WSC Q. 12

Fourth Day

  1. 13Did our first Parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?WSC Q. 13
  2. 14What is sin?WSC Q. 14
  3. 15What was the sin, whereby our first Parents fell from the estate, wherein they were created?WSC Q. 15
  4. 16Did all mankind fall in Adams first transgression?WSC Q. 16

Fifth Day

  1. 17Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?WSC Q. 17
  2. 18Wherein consists the Sinfulness of that estate, whereinto man fell?WSC Q. 18
  3. 19What is the misery of that estate, whereinto man fell?WSC Q. 19
  4. 20Did God leave all mankind, to perish in the estate of sin, and misery?WSC Q. 20

Sixth Day

  1. 21Who is the Redeemer of Gods Elect?WSC Q. 21
  2. 22How did Christ, being the Son of God, become Man?WSC Q. 22
  3. 23What Offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?WSC Q. 23
  4. 24How doth Christ execute the office of a Prophet?WSC Q. 24

Seventh Day

  1. 25How doth Christ execute the Office of a Priest?WSC Q. 25
  2. 26How doth Christ execute the office of a King?WSC Q. 26
  3. 27Wherein did Christs Humiliation consist?WSC Q. 27
  4. 28Wherein consisteth Christs Exaltation?WSC Q. 28

Eighth Day

  1. 29How are we made partakers of the Redemption purchased by Christ?WSC Q. 29
  2. 30How doth the Spirit apply to us the Redemption purchased by Christ?WSC Q. 30
  3. 31What is Effectual Calling?WSC Q. 31
  4. 32What benefits do they, that are effectually called, partake of, in this life?WSC Q. 32

Ninth Day

  1. 33What is justification?WSC Q. 33
  2. 34What is Adoption?WSC Q. 34
  3. 35What is Sanctification?WSC Q. 35
  4. 36What are the benefits, which, in this life, do either accompany or flow from Iustification, Adoption, and Sanctification?WSC Q. 36

Tenth Day

  1. 37What benefits do Believers receive from Christ at their death?WSC Q. 37
  2. 38What benefits do Believers receive from Christ at the Resurrection?WSC Q. 38
  3. 39What is the duty, which God requireth of Man?WSC Q. 39
  4. 40What did God at first reveal unto Man, for the Rule of his Obedience?WSC Q. 40

Eleventh Day

  1. 41Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended?WSC Q. 41
  2. 42What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?WSC Q. 42
  3. 43What is the Preface to the Ten Commandments?WSC Q. 43
  4. 44What doth the Preface to the Ten Commandments teach us?WSC Q. 44

Twelfth Day

  1. 45What is the first Commandment?WSC Q. 45
  2. 46What is required in the first Commandment?WSC Q. 46
  3. 47What is forbidden in the first Commandment?WSC Q. 47
  4. 48What are we especially taught by these words (Before me) in the first Commandment?WSC Q. 48

Thirteenth Day

  1. 49Which is the second Commandment?WSC Q. 49
  2. 50What is required in the second Commandment?WSC Q. 50
  3. 51What is forbidden in the second Commandment?WSC Q. 51
  4. 52What are the Reasons annexed to the second Commandment?WSC Q. 52

Fourteenth Day

  1. 53Which is the third Commandment?WSC Q. 53
  2. 54What is required in the third Commandment?WSC Q. 54
  3. 55What is forbidden in the third Commandment?WSC Q. 55
  4. 56What is the Reason annexed to the third Commandment?WSC Q. 56

Fifteenth Day

  1. 57Which is the fourth Commandment?WSC Q. 57
  2. 58that We required in the fourth Commandment?WSC Q. 58
  3. 59Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?WSC Q. 59
  4. 60How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?WSC Q. 60

Sixteenth Day

  1. 61What is forbidden in the fourth Commandment?WSC Q. 61
  2. 62What are the Reasons annexed to the fourth Commandment?WSC Q. 62
  3. 63Which is the fifth Commandment?WSC Q. 63
  4. 64What is required in the fifth Commandment?WSC Q. 64

Seventeenth Day

  1. 65What is forbidden in the fifth Commandment?WSC Q. 65
  2. 66What is the reason annexed to the fifth Commandment?WSC Q. 66
  3. 67Which is the sixth Commandment?WSC Q. 67
  4. 68What is required in the sixth Commandment?WSC Q. 68

Eighteenth Day

  1. 69What is forbidden in the sixth Commandment?WSC Q. 69
  2. 70What is the seventh Commandment?WSC Q. 70
  3. 71What is required in the seventh Commandment?WSC Q. 71

Nineteenth Day

  1. 72what is forbidden in the seventh Commandment?WSC Q. 72
  2. 73What is the eighth Commandment?WSC Q. 73
  3. 74What is required in the eighth Commandment?WSC Q. 74

Twentieth Day

  1. 75What is forbidden in the eighth Commandment?WSC Q. 75
  2. 76Which is the ninth Commandment?WSC Q. 76
  3. 77What is required in the Ninth Commandment?WSC Q. 77

Twenty-first Day

  1. 78What is forbidden in the ninth Commandment?WSC Q. 78
  2. 79Which is the tenth Commandment?WSC Q. 79
  3. 80What is required in the tenth Commandment?WSC Q. 80

Twenty-second Day

  1. 81What is forbidden in the tenth Commandment?WSC Q. 81
  2. 82Is any man able perfectly to keep the Commands of God?WSC Q. 82
  3. 83Are all the transgressions of the Law equally hainous?WSC Q. 83

Twenty-third Day

  1. 84What doth every sin deserve?WSC Q. 84
  2. 85What doth God require of us, that we may escape the wrath and curse due unto us for sin?WSC Q. 85
  3. 86What is Faith in Iesus Christ?WSC Q. 86

Twenty-fourth Day

  1. 87What is repentance unto life?WSC Q. 87
  2. 88What are the outward means, whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of Redemption?WSC Q. 88
  3. 89How is the Word made effectual to Salvation?WSC Q. 89

Twenty-fifth day

  1. 90How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to Salvation?WSC Q. 90
  2. 91How do the Sacraments become effectual means of Salvation?WSC Q. 91
  3. 92What is a Sacrament?WSC Q. 92

Twenty-sixth day

  1. 93Which are the Sacraments of the New Testament;WSC Q. 93
  2. 94What is Baptism?WSC Q. 94
  3. 95To whom is Baptism to be administred?WSC Q. 95

Twenty-seventh day

  1. 96What is the Lords Supper?WSC Q. 96
  2. 97What is required in the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper?WSC Q. 97
  3. 98What is Prayer?WSC Q. 98

Twenty-eighth day

  1. 99What Rule hath God given us, for our Direction in Prayer?WSC Q. 99
  2. 100What doth the Preface of the Lords Prayer teach us?WSC Q. 100
  3. 101What do we pray for in the first Petition?WSC Q. 101

Twenty-ninth day

  1. 102What do we pray for in the second Petition?WSC Q. 102
  2. 103What do we pray for in the third Petition?WSC Q. 103
  3. 104What do we pray for in the fourth Petition?WSC Q. 104

Thirtieth day

  1. 105What do we pray for in the fifth Petition?WSC Q. 105
  2. 106What do we pray for in the sixth Petition?WSC Q. 106
  3. 107What doth the Conclusion of the Lords Prayer teach us?WSC Q. 107