Question 82
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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 doth 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
- Westminster Shorter Catechism (modernized, 1647) Q. 82
- The Baptist Catechism (1695) Q. 87
- Westminster Larger Catechism (1647) Q. 149
Side by side, with what differs marked: The Shorter Catechism and the Baptist Catechism
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Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 82, symbolics.dev/wsc/82
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