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05900 A PURITAN CATECHISM With Proofs Compiled by C. H. Spurgeon "Heir of the Puritans" --------------------------------------------------------------------- I am persuaded that the use of a good Catechism in all our families will be a great safeguard against the increasing errors of the times, and therefore I have compiled this little manual from the Westminster Assembly's and Baptist Catechisms, for the use of my own church and congregation. Those who use it in their families or classes must labour to explain the sense; but the words should be carefully learned by heart, for they will be understood better as years pass. May the Lord bless my dear friends and their families evermore, is the prayer of their loving Pastor. C. H. Spurgeon --------------------------------------------------------------------- Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Ti 2:15 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Published about Oct 14, 1855, when Spurgeon was 21 years old. On Oct. 14, Spurgeon preached Sermon No. 46 to several thousand who gathered to hear him at New Park Street Chapel. When the sermon was published it contained an announcement of this catechism. The text that morning was, "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations." Ps. 90:1. ===================================================================== Question Topic No. 1 What is the chief end of man? 5901 2 What rule has God given to direct us how we may 5902 glorify him? 3 What do the Scriptures principally teach? 5903 4 What is God? 5904 5 Are there more Gods than one? 5905 6 How many persons are there in the Godhead? 5906 7 What are the decrees of God? 5907 8 How does God execute his decrees? 5908 9 What is the work of creation? 5909 10 How did God create man? 5910 11 What are God's works of providence? 5911 12 What special act of providence did God exercise 5912 toward man in the state wherein he was created? 13 Did our parents continue in the state wherein 5913 they were created? 14 What is sin? 5914 15 Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression? 5915 16 Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? 5916 17 Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state 5917 whereinto man fell? 18 What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell? 5918 19 Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of 5919 sin and misery? 20 Who is the Redeemer of God's elect? 5920 21 How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? 5921 22 What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer? 5922 23 How does Christ execute the office of a prophet? 5923 24 How does Christ execute the office of a priest? 5924 25 How does Christ execute the office of a king? 5925 26 Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? 5926 27 Wherein consists Christ's exaltation? 5927 28 How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased 5928 by Christ? 29 How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption 5929 purchased by Christ? 30 What is effectual calling? 5930 31 What benefits do they who are effectually called, 5931 partake of in this life? 32 What is justification? 5932 33 What is adoption? 5933 34 What is sanctification? 5934 35 What are the benefits which in this life do either 5935 accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? 36 What benefits do believers receive from Christ at 5936 their death? 37 What benefits do believers receive from Christ at 5937 the resurrection? 38 What shall be done to the wicked at their death? 5938 39 What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment? 5939 40 What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? 5940 41 What is the sum of the ten commandments? 5941 42 Which is the first commandment? 5942 43 What is required in the first commandment? 5943 44 Which is the second commandment? 5944 45 What is required in the second commandment? 5945 46 What is forbidden in the second commandment? 5946 47 Which is the third commandment? 5947 48 What is required in the third commandment? 5948 49 Which is the fourth commandment? 5949 50 What is required in the fourth commandment? 5950 51 How is the Sabbath to be sanctified? 5951 52 Which is the fifth commandment? 5952 53 What is required in the fifth commandment? 5953 54 What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment? 5954 55 Which is the sixth commandment? 5955 56 What is forbidden in the sixth commandment? 5956 57 Which is the seventh commandment? 5957 58 What is forbidden in the seventh commandment? 5958 59 Which is the eighth commandment? 5959 60 What is forbidden in the eighth commandment? 5960 61 Which is the ninth commandment? 5961 62 What is required in the ninth commandment? 5962 63 Which is the tenth commandment? 5963 64 What is forbidden in the tenth commandment? 5964 65 Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments 5965 of God? 66 Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous? 5966 67 What does every sin deserve? 5967 68 How may we escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin? 5968 69 What is faith in Jesus Christ? 5969 70 What is repentance to life? 5970 71 What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit 5971 communicates to us the benefits of redemption? 72 How is the Word made effectual to salvation? 5972 73 How is the Word to be read and heard that it may 5973 become effectual to salvation? 74 How do Baptism and the Lord's Supper become 5974 spiritually helpful? 75 What is baptism? 5975 76 To whom is Baptism to be administered? 5976 77 Are the infants of such as are professing believers 5977 to be baptised? 78 How is baptism rightly administered? 5978 79 What is the duty of such as are rightly baptised? 5979 80 What is the Lord's Supper? 5980 81 What is required to the worthy receiving of the 5981 Lord's Supper? 82 What is meant by the words, "until he come," which 5982 are used by the apostle Paul in reference to the the Lord's Supper? See Related Topics Confession of Faith 5450 The Sum of Saving Knowledge 5750 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 05901 1 Q What is the chief end of man? A Man's chief end is to glorify God, # 1Co 10:31 and to enjoy him for ever. # Ps 73:25,26 05902 2 Q What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him? A The Word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments # Eph 2:20 2Ti 3:16 is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify God and enjoy him. # 1Jo 1:3 05903 3 Q What do the Scriptures principally teach? A The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man. # 2Ti 1:13 Ec 12:13 05904 4 Q What is God? A God is Spirit, # Joh 4:24 infinite, # Job 11:7 eternal, # Ps 90:2 1Ti 1:17 and unchangeable # Jas 1:17 in his being, # Ex 3:14 wisdom, power, # Ps 147:5 holiness, # Re 4:8 justice, goodness and truth. # Ex 34:6,7 05905 5 Q Are there more Gods than one? A There is but one only, # De 6:4 the living and true God. # Jer 10:10 05906 6 Q How many persons are there in the Godhead? A There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one God, the same in essence, equal in power and glory. # 1Jo 5:7 Mt 28:19 05907 7 Q What are the decrees of God? A The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his own will, whereby for his own glory he has foreordained whatever comes to pass. # Eph 1:11,12 05908 8 Q How does God execute his decrees? A God executes his decrees in the works of creation, # Re 4:11 and providence. # Da 4:35 05909 9 Q What is the work of creation? A The work of creation is God's making all things # Ge 1:1 of nothing, by the Word of his power, # Heb 11:3 in six normal consecutive days, # Ex 20:11 and all very good. # Ge 1:31 05910 10 Q How did God create man? A God created man, male and female, after his own image, # Ge 1:27 in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness # Col 3:10 Eph 4:24 with dominion over the creatures. # Ge 1:28 05911 11 Q What are God's works of providence? A God's works of providence are his most holy, # Ps 145:17 wise, # Isa 28:29 and powerful, # Heb 1:3 preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions. # Ps 103:19 Mt 10:29 05912 12 Q What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created? A When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; # Ga 3:12 forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death. # Ge 2:17 05913 13 Q Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were created? A Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the state wherein they were created, by sinning against God, # Ec 7:29 by eating the forbidden fruit. # Ge 3:6-8 05914 14 Q What is sin? A Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God. # 1Jo 3:4 05915 15 Q Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression? A The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. # 1Co 15:22 Ro 5:12 05916 16 Q Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? A The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery. # Ro 5:18 05917 17 Q Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell? A The sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, # Ro 5:19 the want of original righteousness, # Ro 3:10 and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin, # Eph 2:1 Ps 51:5 together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it. # Mt 15:19 05918 18 Q What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell? A All mankind, by their fall, lost communion with God, # Ge 3:8,24 are under his wrath and curse, # Eph 2:3 Ga 3:10 and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever. # Ro 6:23 Mt 25:41 05919 19 Q Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery? A God having, out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, # 2Th 2:13 did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer. # Ro 5:21 05920 20 Q Who is the Redeemer of God's elect? A The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, # 1Ti 2:5 who being the eternal Son of God, became man, # Joh 1:14 and so was and continues to be God and man, in two distinct natures and one person for ever. # 1Ti 3:16 Col 2:9 05921 21 Q How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? A Christ, the son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body, # Heb 2:14 and a reasonable soul, # Mt 26:38 Heb 4:15 being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary, and born of her, # Lu 1:31,35 yet without sin. # Heb 7:26 05922 22 Q What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer? A Christ as our Redeemer executes the offices of a prophet, # Ac 3:22 of a priest, # Heb 5:6 and of a king, # Ps 2:6 both in his state of humiliation and exaltation. 05923 23 Q How does Christ execute the office of a prophet? A Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, # Joh 1:18 by his Word, # Joh 20:31 and Spirit, # Joh 14:26 the will of God for our salvation. 05924 24 Q How does Christ execute the office of a priest? A Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, # Heb 9:28 and to reconcile us to God, # Heb 2:17 and in making continual intercession for us. # Heb 7:25 05925 25 Q How does Christ execute the office of a king? A Christ executes the office of a king in subduing us to himself, # Ps 110:3 in ruling and defending us, # Mt 2:6 1Co 15:25 and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies. 05926 26 Q Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? A Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, # Lu 2:7 made under the law, # Ga 4:4 undergoing the miseries of this life, # Isa 53:3 the wrath of God, # Mt 27:46 and the cursed death of the cross; # Php 2:8 in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. # Mt 12:40 05927 27 Q Wherein consists Christ's exaltation? A Christ's exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, # 1Co 15:4 in ascending up into heaven, and sitting at the right hand of God the Father, # Mr 16:19 and in coming to judge the world at the last day. # Ac 17:31 05928 28 Q How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? A We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us # Joh 1:12 by his Holy Spirit. # Tit 3:5,6 05929 29 Q How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? A The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, # Eph 2:8 and by it uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling. # Eph 3:17 05930 30 Q What is effectual calling? A Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit # 2Ti 1:9 whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, # Ac 2:37 enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, # Ac 26:18 and renewing our wills, # Eze 36:26 he does persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the gospel. # Joh 6:44,45 05931 31 Q What benefits do they who are effectually called, partake of in this life? A They who are effectually called, do in this life partake of justification, # Ro 8:30 adoption, # Eph 1:5 sanctification, and the various benefits which in this life do either accompany, or flow from them. # 1Co 1:30 05932 32 Q What is justification? A Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, # Ro 3:24 Eph 1:7 and accepts us as righteous in his sight # 2Co 5:21 only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, # Ro 5:19 and received by faith alone. # Ga 2:16 Php 3:9 05933 33 Q What is adoption? A Adoption is an act of God's free grace, # 1Jo 3:1 whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God. # Joh 1:12 Ro 8:17 05934 34 Q What is sanctification? A Sanctification is the work of God's Spirit, # 2Th 2:13 whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, # Eph 4:24 and are enabled more and more to die to sin, and live to righteousness. # Ro 6:11 05935 35 Q What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? A The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, # Ro 5:1,2,5 are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, # Ro 14:17 increase of grace, perseverance in it to the end. # Pr 4:18 1Jo 5:13 1Pe 1:5 05936 36 Q What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death? A The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, # Heb 12:23 and do immediately pass into glory, # Php 1:23 2Co 5:8 Lu 23:43 and their bodies, being still united to Christ, # 1Th 4:14 do rest in their graves # Isa 57:2 till the resurrection. # Job 19:26 05937 37 Q What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? A At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, # 1Co 15:43 shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, # Mt 10:32 and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body in the full enjoying of God # 1Jo 3:2 to all eternity. # 1Th 4:17 05938 38 Q What shall be done to the wicked at their death? A The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, # Lu 16:22-24 and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection, and judgement of the great day. # Ps 49:14 05939 39 Q What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment? A At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever. # Da 12:2 Joh 5:28,29 2Th 1:9 Mt 25:41 05940 40 Q What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? A The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience, is the moral law, # De 10:4 Mt 19:17 which is summarised in the ten commandments. 05941 41 Q What is the sum of the ten commandments? A The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves. # Mt 22:37-40 05942 42 Q Which is the first commandment? A The first commandment is, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 05943 43 Q What is required in the first commandment? A The first commandment requires us to know # 1Ch 28:9 and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God, # De 26:17 and to worship and glorify him accordingly. # Mt 4:10 05944 44 Q Which is the second commandment? A The second commandment is, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." 05945 45 Q What is required in the second commandment? A The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, # De 32:46 Mt 28:20 and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances as God has appointed in his Word. # De 12:32 05946 46 Q What is forbidden in the second commandment? A The second commandment forbids the worshipping of God by images, # De 4:15,16 or any other way not appointed in his Word. # Col 2:18 05947 47 Q Which is the third commandment? A The third commandment is, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain." 05948 48 Q What is required in the third commandment? A The third commandment requires the holy and reverent use of God's names, # Ps 29:2 titles, attributes, # Re 15:3,4 ordinances, # Ec 5:1 Word, # Ps 138:2 and works. # Job 36:24 De 28:58,59 05949 49 Q Which is the fourth commandment? A The fourth commandment is, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor they cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."