LORD’S DAY 7 Are all men then, as they perished in Adam, saved by Christ? No; only those who are ingrafted into Him, and receive all His benefits, by a true faith. What is true faith? True faith is not only a certain knowledge, whereby I...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LORD’S DAY 6 Why must he be very man, and also perfectly righteous? Because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which hath sinned, should likewise make satisfaction for sin; and one, who is himself a sinner, cannot...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LORD’S DAY 6 Why must he be very man, and also perfectly righteous? Because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which hath sinned, should likewise make satisfaction for sin; and one, who is himself a sinner, cannot...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LORD’S DAY 5 Since then, by the righteous judgment of God, we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, is there no way by which we may escape that punishment, and be again received into favor? God will have His justice satisfied, and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LORD’S DAY 4 Doth not God then do injustice to man, by requiring from him in His law that which he cannot perform? Not at all; for God made man capable of performing it; but man, by the instigation of the devil, and his own wilful...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
LORD’S DAY 4 Doth not God then do injustice to man, by requiring from him in His law that which he cannot perform? Not at all; for God made man capable of performing it; but man, by the instigation of the devil, and his own wilful...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Whence knowest thou thy misery? Out of the law of God. What doth the law of God require of us? Christ teaches us that briefly, Matthew 22:37–40, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Whence knowest thou thy misery? Out of the law of God. What doth the law of God require of us? Christ teaches us that briefly, Matthew 22:37–40, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Lords Day 3 Did God then create man so wicked and perverse? By no means; but God created man good, and after His own image, in true righteousness and holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him and live with Him in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Q. How many things are necessary for you to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, may live and die happily? A. Three: the first, how great my sins and miseries are; the second, how I may be delivered from all my sins and miseries; the third, how...[ abbreviated | read entire ]