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The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions

Question 82

On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 82

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Is any man able perfectly to keep the Commands of God?

No meer man, since the fall, is able, in this life, perfectly to keep the Commandments of God, but daily doth break them, in thought, word, and deed.

1. No meer man since the fall is able, in this life, perfectly to keep the Commandments of God.a*

2. Every meer man, since the fall, doth in this life break the Commandments of God, in Thought.b†

4. Every meer man since the fall doth daily break the Commandments of God in word.c‡

4. Every meer man since the fall, doth break the Commandments of God in deed.d4

Notes

  1. *Eccles. 7.20. There is not a just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.
  2. †Gen. 8.21. The imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth.
  3. ‡Jam. 3.8. The tongue can no man tame, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poyson.
  4. 4Jam. 3.2. In many things we offend all.

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aEcclesiastes 7:20
  2. bGenesis 8:21
  3. cJames 3:8
  4. dJames 3:2

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