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Question 115

On Heidelberg Catechism (1563) Q. 115

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Why will God then haue his law to bee so exactly & seuerely preached, seeing there is no man in this life, who is able to keepe it?

First, that al our life-time wee more and more acknowledge the great pronenes of our nature to sin, and so much the more greedilya desire remission of sinnes and righteousnesse in Christ: Secondly,b that wee be doing of this alwaies, and alwaies thinking of that, and implore and craue of the father the grace of his holy spirit, whereby wee may daily more and more bee renewed to the image and likenesse of God, vntill at length after wee are departed out of this life, wee may ioyfully attaine vnto that perfection which is proposed vnto vs.c

Proofs

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

  1. aJohn 1:9; Psalm 22:5
  2. bRomans 7:24
  3. c1 Corinthians 9:24; Philippians 3:12–14

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