- 1. What is the chief and highest end of man?
- 2. How doth it appear that there is a God?
- 3. What is the word of God?
- 4. How doth it appear that the scriptures are the word of God?
- 5. What do the scriptures principally teach?
- 6. What do the scriptures make known of God?
- 7. What is God?
- 8. Are there more Gods than one?
- 9. How many persons are there in the Godhead?
- 10. What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead?
- 11. How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father?
- 12. What are the decrees of God?
- 13. What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?
- 14. How doth God execute his decrees?
- 15. What is the work of creation?
- 16. How did God create angels?
- 17. How did God create man?
- 18. What are God's works of providence?
- 19. What is God's providence towards the angels?
- 20. What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created?
- 21. Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?
- 22. Did all mankind fall in that first transgression ?
- 23. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
- 24. What is sin?
- 25. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
- 26. How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
- 27. What misery did the fall bring upon mankind?
- 28. What are the punishments of sin in this world?
- 29. What are the punishments of sin in the world to come?
- 30. Doth God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
- 31. With whom was the covenant of grace made?
- 32. How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant?
- 33. Was the covenant of grace always administered after one and the same manner?
- 34. How was the covenant of grace administered under the Old Testament?
- 35. How is the covenant of grace administered under the New Testament?
- 36. Who is the Mediator of the covenant of grace?
- 37. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
- 38. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God?
- 39. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man?
- 40. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person ?
- 41. Why was our Mediator called Jesus?
- 42. Why was our Mediator called Christ?
- 43. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
- 44. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
- 45. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
- 46. What was the estate of Christ's humiliation?
- 47. How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
- 48. How did Christ humble himself in his life?
- 49. How did Christ humble himself in his death?
- 50. Wherein consisted Christ's humiliation after his death?
- 51. What was the estate of Christ's exaltation?
- 52. How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?
- 53. How was Christ exalted in his ascension?
- 54. How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God?
- 55. How doth Christ make intercession?
- 56. How is Christ to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world?
- 57. What benefits hath Christ procured by his mediation?
- 58. How do we come to be made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured?
- 59. Who are made partakers of redemption through Christ?
- 60. Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature?
- 61. Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church?
- 62. What is the visible church?
- 63. What are the special privileges of the visible church?
- 64. What is the invisible church?
- 65. What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ?
- 66. What is that union which the elect have with Christ?
- 67. What is effectual calling?
- 68. Are the elect only effectually called?
- 69. What is the communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?
- 70. What is justification?
- 71. How is justification an act of God's free grace?
- 72. What is justifying faith?
- 73. How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?
- 74. What is adoption?
- 75. What is sanctification?
- 76. What is repentance unto life?
- 77. Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?
- 78. Whence ariseth the imperfection of sanctification in believers?
- 79. May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace ?
- 80. Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace, and that they shall persevere therein unto salvation?
- 81. Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved?
- 82. What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?
- 83. What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy in this life?
- 84. Shall all men die?
- 85. Death, being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?
- 86. What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death ?
- 87. What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?
- 88. What shall immediately follow after the resurrection?
- 89. What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
- 90. What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?
- 91. What is the duty which God requireth of man?
- 92. What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience?
- 93. What is the moral law?
- 94. Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall?
- 95. Of what use is the moral law to all men?
- 96. What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men?
- 97. What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?
- 98. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
- 99. What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the ten commandments?
- 100. What special things are we to consider in the ten commandments?
- 101. What is the preface to the ten commandments?
- 102. What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God?
- 103. Which is the first commandment?
- 104. What are the duties required in the first commandment?
- 105. What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?
- 106. What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment?
- 107. Which is the second commandment?
- 108. What are the duties required in the second commandment?
- 109. What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment?
- 110. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?
- 111. Which is the third commandment?
- 112. What is required in the third commandment?
- 113. What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?
- 114. What reasons are annexed to the third commandment?
- 115. Which is the fourth commandment?
- 116. What is required in the fourth commandment?
- 117. How is the sabbath or the Lord's day to be sanctified?
- 118. Why is the charge of keeping the sabbath more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors?
- 119. What are the sins forbidden in the fourth commandment?
- 120. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it?
- 121. Why is the word Remember set in the beginning of the fourth commandment?
- 122. What is the sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man?
- 123. Which is the fifth commandment?
- 124. Who are meant by father and mother in the fifth commandment?
- 125. Why are superiors styled Father and Mother?
- 126. What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?
- 127. What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors.?
- 128. What are the sins of inferiors against their superiors?
- 129. What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?
- 130. What are the sins of superiors?
- 131. What are the duties of equals?
- 132. What are the sins of equals?
- 133. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it?
- 134. Which is the sixth commandment?
- 135. What are the duties required in the sixth commandment?
- 136. What are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment?
- 137. Which is the seventh commandment?
- 138. What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
- 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
- 140. Which is the eighth commandment?
- 141. What are the duties required in the eighth commandment?
- 142. What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment?
- 143. Which is the ninth commandment?
- 144. What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?
- 145. What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
- 146. Which is the tenth commandment?
- 147. What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?
- 148. What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?
- 149. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
- 150. Are all transgressions of the law of God equally heinous in themselves, and in the sight of God?
- 151. What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?
- 152. What doth every sin deserve at the hands of God?
- 153. What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us by reason of the transgression of the law?
- 154. What are the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of his mediation?
- 155. How is the word made effectual to salvation?
- 156. Is the word of God to be read by all?
- 157. How is the word of God to be read?
- 158. By whom is the word of God to be preached?
- 159. How is the word of God to be preached by those that are called thereunto?
- 160. What is required of those that hear the word preached?
- 161. How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
- 162. What is a sacrament?
- 163. What are the parts of a sacrament?
- 164. How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the New Testament?
- 165. What is Baptism?
- 166. Unto whom is Baptism to be administered?
- 167. How is our Baptism to be improved by us?
- 168. What is the Lord's supper?
- 169. How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the sacrament of the Lord's supper?
- 170. How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord's supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?
- 171. How are they that receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it?
- 172. May one who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation, come to the Lord's supper?
- 173. May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the Lord's supper, be kept from it?
- 174. What is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper in the time of the administration of it?
- 175. What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament of the Lord's supper?
- 176. Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper agree?
- 177. Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper differ?
- 178. What is prayer?
- 179. Are we to pray unto God only?
- 180. What is it to pray in the name of Christ?
- 181. Why are we to pray in the name of Christ?
- 182. How doth the Spirit help us to pray?
- 183. For whom are we to pray?
- 184. For what things are we to pray?
- 185. How are we to pray?
- 186. What rule hath God given for our direction in the duty of prayer?
- 187. How is the Lord's prayer to be used?
- 188. Of how many parts doth the Lord's prayer consist?
- 189. What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?
- 190. What do we pray for in the first petition?
- 191. What do we pray for in the second petition.?
- 192. What do we pray for in the third petition?
- 193. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
- 194. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
- 195. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
- 196. What doth the conclusion of the Lord's prayer teach us?