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Westminster Shorter Catechism (modernized)

WSC · 1647 · 107 questions

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By
Westminster Assembly
Dates
written 1647; first published 1648; adopted by the Church of Scotland, 1648
Tradition
reformed, presbyterian
Also called
Shorter Catechism
Related
Adapted by The Baptist Catechism (modernized, 1695); Parallel to Westminster Larger Catechism (modernized, 1647); The same text as Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)
Transcribed
From wsc
License
Public domain
Notes

wsc with its spelling modernized from scripts/modernize-dictionary.json, made by the API’s build: its only files are its diffs against the modernized copies it relates to (diffs/), which npm run diff writes.

Spelling
Modernized from Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)
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Contents

  1. 1What is the chief end of man?
  2. 2What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
  3. 3What do the Scriptures principally teach?
  4. 4What is God?
  5. 5Are there more Gods than one?
  6. 6How many persons are there in the Godhead?
  7. 7What are the decrees of God?
  8. 8How does God execute his decrees?
  9. 9What is the work of creation?
  10. 10How did God create man?
  11. 11What are God’s works of providence?
  12. 12What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
  13. 13Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
  14. 14What is sin?
  15. 15What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
  16. 16Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
  17. 17Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
  18. 18Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
  19. 19What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
  20. 20Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
  21. 21Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
  22. 22How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
  23. 23What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
  24. 24How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
  25. 25How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
  26. 26How does Christ execute the office of a king?
  27. 27Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
  28. 28Wherein consists Christ’s exaltation?
  29. 29How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
  30. 30How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
  31. 31What is effectual calling?
  32. 32What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
  33. 33What is justification?
  34. 34What is adoption?
  35. 35What is sanctification?
  36. 36What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
  37. 37What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
  38. 38What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
  39. 39What is the duty which God requires of man?
  40. 40What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
  41. 41Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
  42. 42What is the sum of the ten commandments?
  43. 43What is the preface to the ten commandments?
  44. 44What does the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
  45. 45Which is the first commandment?
  46. 46What is required in the first commandment?
  47. 47What is forbidden in the first commandment?
  48. 48What are we specially taught by these words, ‘before me’, in the first commandment?
  49. 49Which is the second commandment?
  50. 50What is required in the second commandment?
  51. 51What is forbidden in the second commandment?
  52. 52What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
  53. 53Which is the third commandment?
  54. 54What is required in the third commandment?
  55. 55What is forbidden in the third commandment?
  56. 56What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
  57. 57Which is the fourth commandment?
  58. 58What is required in the fourth commandment?
  59. 59Which day of the seven has God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
  60. 60How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
  61. 61What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
  62. 62What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
  63. 63Which is the fifth commandment?
  64. 64What is required in the fifth commandment?
  65. 65What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
  66. 66What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
  67. 67Which is the sixth commandment?
  68. 68What is required in the sixth commandment?
  69. 69What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
  70. 70Which is the seventh commandment?
  71. 71What is required in the seventh commandment?
  72. 72What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
  73. 73Which is the eighth commandment?
  74. 74What is required in the eighth commandment?
  75. 75What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
  76. 76Which is the ninth commandment?
  77. 77What is required in the ninth commandment?
  78. 78What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
  79. 79Which is the tenth commandment?
  80. 80What is required in the tenth commandment?
  81. 81What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
  82. 82Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
  83. 83Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
  84. 84What does every sin deserve?
  85. 85What does God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
  86. 86What is faith in Jesus Christ?
  87. 87What is repentance unto life?
  88. 88What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption?
  89. 89How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
  90. 90How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
  91. 91How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
  92. 92What is a sacrament?
  93. 93Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
  94. 94What is Baptism?
  95. 95To whom is Baptism to be administered?
  96. 96What is the Lord’s Supper?
  97. 97What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?
  98. 98What is prayer?
  99. 99What rule has God given for our direction in prayer?
  100. 100What does the preface of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?
  101. 101What do we pray for in the first petition?
  102. 102What do we pray for in the second petition?
  103. 103What do we pray for in the third petition?
  104. 104What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
  105. 105What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
  106. 106What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
  107. 107What does the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us?