Westminster Shorter Catechism (modernized)

Question 82

API: GET /api/v1/documents/wsc-modernized/questions/82

Page 170 of the printing

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

No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God,^a but does daily break them in thought, word, and deed.^b

Proofs

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

Commentary

An Explicatory Catechism (1675), on this question
John Flavel, An Exposition of the Assembly’s Catechism (1692), on this question
Thomas Vincent, An Explicatory Catechism (1673), on this question
Joseph Alleine, A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism (1672), on this question
Thomas Lye, The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions (1672), on this question
Alexander Whyte, A Commentary on the Shorter Catechism (1883), on this question
Matthew Henry, A Scripture Catechism (1703), on this question
Thomas Watson, A Body of Practical Divinity (1692), on this question

Related texts

Cite this

Westminster Shorter Catechism (modernized, 1647) Q. 82, symbolics.dev/wsc-modernized/82

Permalink: https://symbolics.dev/wsc-modernized/82

See a mistake? Report it, with what the printing has.