{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/westcat1.htm","path":"chr/westcat1.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/westcat1.htm","text":"Q1: What is the chief end of man? \n \n A1: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever. \n \n \n \n \nQ2: What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy \n \n Him? \n \n A2: The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and \n \n New Testaments, is the\n \n only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him. \n \n \n \n \nQ3: What do the Scriptures principally teach? \n \n A3: The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning \n \n God, and what duty God\n \n requires of man. \n \n \n \n \nQ4: What is God? \n \n A4: God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, \n \n wisdom, power, holiness,\n \n justice, goodness, and truth. \n \n \n \n \nQ5: Are there more Gods than one? \n \n A5: There is but one only, the living and true God. \n \n \n \n \nQ6: How many persons are there in the Godhead? \n \n A6: There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the \n \n Holy Ghost; and these\n \n three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. \n \n \n \n \nQ7: What are the decrees of God? \n \n A7: The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of \n \n his will, whereby, for\n \n his own glory, he hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass. \n \n \n \n \nQ8: How doth God execute his decrees? \n \n A8: God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence. \n \n \n \n \nQ9: What is the work of creation? \n \n A9: The work of creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the word \n \n of his power, in the\n \n space of six days, and all very good. \n \n \n \n \nQ10: How did God create man? \n \n A10: God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, \n \n righteousness, and\n \n holiness, with dominion over the creatures. \n \n \n \n \nQ11: What are God's works of providence? \n \n A11: God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful \n \n preserving and governing\n \n all his creatures, and all their actions. \n \n \n \n \nQ12: What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the \n \n estate wherein he was\n \n created? \n \n A12: When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with \n \n him, upon condition of\n \n perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of \n \n good and evil, upon the\n \n pain of death. \n \n \n \n \nQ13: Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were \n \n created? \n \n A13: Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from \n \n the estate wherein they\n \n were created, by sinning against God. \n \n \n \n \nQ14: What is sin? \n \n A14: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of \n \n God. \n \n \n \n \nQ15: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate \n \n wherein they were created? \n \n A15: The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they \n \n were created, was their\n \n eating the forbidden fruit. \n \n \n \n \nQ16: Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression? \n \n A16: The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his \n \n posterity; all mankind,\n \n descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with \n \n him, in his first\n \n transgression. \n \n \n \n \nQ17: Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? \n \n A17: The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery. \n \n \n \n \nQ18: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? \n \n A18: The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt \n \n of Adam's first sin, the\n \n want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, \n \n which is commonly called\n \n Original Sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it. \n \n \n \n \nQ19: What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? \n \n A19: All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his \n \n wrath and curse, and so\n \n made liable to all miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of \n \n hell for ever. \n \n \n \n \nQ20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and \n \n misery? \n \n A20. God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected \n \n some to everlasting life,\n \n did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin \n \n and misery, and to bring\n \n them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer. \n \n \n \n \nQ21: Who is the Redeemer of God's elect? \n \n A21: The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being \n \n the eternal Son of\n \n God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two \n \n distinct natures, and\n \n one person, for ever. \n \n \n \n \nQ22: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? \n \n A22: Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, \n \n and a reasonable soul,\n \n being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin \n \n Mary, and born of her\n \n yet without sin. \n \n \n \n \nQ23: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer? \n \n A23: Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, \n \n and of a king, both in\n \n his estate of humiliation and exaltation. \n \n \n \n \nQ24: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? \n \n A24: Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his \n \n word and Spirit, the will of\n \n God for our salvation. \n \n \n \n \nQ25: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? \n \n A25: Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of \n \n himself a sacrifice to satisfy\n \n divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession \n \n for us. \n \n \n \n \nQ26: How doth Christ execute the office of a king? \n \n A26: Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in \n \n ruling and defending us,\n \n and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies. \n \n \n \n \nQ27: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? \n \n A27: Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low \n \n condition, made under the\n \n law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed \n \n death of the cross; in\n \n being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. \n \n \n \n \nQ28: Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation? \n \n A28: Christ's exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the \n \n third day, in ascending\n \n up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in \n \n coming to judge the world at\n \n the last day. \n \n \n \n \nQ29: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by \n \n Christ? \n \n A29: We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by \n \n the effectual application of\n \n it to us by his Holy Spirit. \n \n \n \n \nQ30: How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by \n \n Christ? \n \n A30: The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by \n \n working faith in us, and\n \n thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling. \n \n \n \n \nQ31: What is effectual calling? \n \n A31: Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby convincing us of \n \n our sin and misery,\n \n enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, \n \n he doth persuade and\n \n enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel. \n \n \n \n \nQ32: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this \n \n life? \n \n A32: They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, \n \n adoption, and\n \n sanctification, and the several benefits which, in this life, do either \n \n accompany or flow from them. \n \n \n \n \nQ33: What is justification? \n \n A33: Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein He pardoneth all \n \n our sins, and accepteth\n \n us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to \n \n us, and received by\n \n faith alone. \n \n \n \n \nQ34: What is adoption? \n \n A34: Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into \n \n the number, and have a\n \n right to all the privileges of the Sons of God. \n \n \n \n \nQ35: What is sanctification? \n \n A35: Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are \n \n renewed in the whole man\n \n after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and \n \n live unto\n \n righteousness. \n \n \n \n \nQ36: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from \n \n justification, adoption,\n \n and sanctification? \n \n A36: The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from \n \n justification, adoption, and\n \n sanctification, are, assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the \n \n Holy Ghost, increase\n \n of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. \n \n \n \n \nQ37: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? \n \n A37: The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and \n \n do immediately pass\n \n into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their \n \n graves till the resurrection. \n \n \n \n \nQ38: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? \n \n A38: At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be \n \n openly acknowledged and\n \n acquitted in the day of judgement, and made perfectly blessed in the full \n \n enjoying of God to all\n \n eternity. \n \n \n \n \nQ39. What is the duty which God requireth of man? \n \n A39. The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to His revealed \n \n will. \n \n \n \n \nQ40. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? \n \n A40. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was \n \n the Moral Law. \n \n \n \n \nQ41. Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended? \n \n A41. The Moral Law is summarily comprehended in the Ten \n \n Commandments. \n \n \n \n \nQ42. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? \n \n A42. The sum of the Ten Commandments is, \"to love the Lord our God\" \n \n with all our heart, all our\n \n soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as \n \n ourselves. \n \n \n \n \nQ43. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments? \n \n A43. The preface to the Ten Commandments is in these words, \"I am the \n \n Lord your God, who\n \n brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house OF SLAVERY.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ44. What doth the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us? \n \n A44. The preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us, That because God \n \n is The Lord, and our\n \n God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all His \n \n commandments. \n \n \n \n \nQ45: Which is the First Commandment? \n \n A45: The First Commandment is, \"thou shalt have no other gods before \n \n Me.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ46: What is required in the First Commandment? \n \n A46: The First Commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God \n \n to be only true God,\n \n and our God; and to worship and glorify Him accordingly. \n \n \n \n \nQ47: What is forbidden in the First Commandment? \n \n A47: The First Commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping \n \n and glorifying the true\n \n God, as God, and the giving of that worship and glory to any other which is \n \n due to Him alone. \n \n \n \n \nQ48: What are we specially taught by these words, \"before me\" in the \n \n First \n \n Commandment? \n \n A48: These words \"before me\" in the First Commandment, teach us, That \n \n God who seeth all\n \n things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any \n \n other God. \n \n \n \n \nQ49: Which is the Second Commandment? \n \n A49: The Second Commandment is, \"thou shalt not make unto thee any \n \n graven image, or any\n \n likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth \n \n beneath, or that is in the water\n \n under the earth, thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: \n \n for I the Lord thy God\n \n am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, \n \n unto the third and fourth\n \n generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of \n \n them that love Me, and\n \n keep my commandments.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ50: What is required in the Second Commandment? \n \n A50: The Second Commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and \n \n keeping pure and entire,\n \n all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in His \n \n Word. \n \n \n \n \nQ51: What is forbidden in the Second Commandment? \n \n A51: The Second Commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by \n \n images, or any other way\n \n not appointed in His Word. \n \n \n \n \nQ52: What are the reasons annexed to the Second Commandment? \n \n A52: The reasoned annexed to the Second Commandment are, God's \n \n sovereignty over us, and the\n \n zeal He hath to His own worship.\n \n \n \n \nQ53: Which is the Third Commandment? \n \n A53: The Third Commandment is, \"thou shalt not take the name of the \n \n Lord thy God in vain: for\n \n the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ54: What is required in the Third Commandment? \n \n A54: The Third Commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of \n \n God's names, titles,\n \n attributes, ordinances, Word, and works. \n \n \n \n \nQ55: What is forbidden in the Third Commandment? \n \n A55: The Third Commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing \n \n anything whereby God maketh\n \n Himself known. \n \n \n \n \nQ56: What is the reason annexed to the Third Commandment? \n \n A56: The reason annexed to the Third Commandment is, That however the \n \n breakers of this\n \n commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God \n \n will not suffer them to\n \n escape His righteous judgement. \n \n \n \n \nQ57: Which is the Fourth Commandment? \n \n A57: The Fourth Commandment is, \"Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it \n \n holy. Six days shalt\n \n thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the \n \n LORD thy God: in it\n \n thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy \n \n manservant, nor thy maid-\n \n servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six \n \n days the LORD made\n \n heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh \n \n day: wherefore the LORD\n \n blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ58: What is required in the Fourth Commandment? \n \n A58: The Fourth Commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set \n \n times as He appointed\n \n in His Word; expressly one whole day in seven to be a holy Sabbath to \n \n Himself. \n \n \n \n \nQ59: Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly \n \n Sabbath? \n \n A59: From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God \n \n appointed the seventh day\n \n of the week to be the weekly Sabbath; and the first day of the week ever \n \n since, to continue to the\n \n end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath. \n \n \n \n \nQ60: How is the Sabbath to be sanctified? \n \n A60: The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even \n \n from such worldly\n \n employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending \n \n the whole time in the public\n \n and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up \n \n in the works of\n \n necessity and mercy. \n \n \n \n \nQ61: What is forbidden in the Fourth Commandment? \n \n A61: The Fourth Commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless \n \n performance of the duties\n \n required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in \n \n itself sinful, or by\n \n unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or \n \n recreations. \n \n \n \n \nQ62: What are the reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment? \n \n A62: The reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment are, God's allowing \n \n us six days of the\n \n week for our own employments, His challenging a special propriety in the \n \n seventh, His own\n \n example, and His blessing the Sabbath-day. \n \n \n \n \nQ63: Which is the Fifth Commandment? \n \n A63: The Fifth Commandment is, \"honour thy father and thy mother, that \n \n thy days may be long\n \n upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ64: What is required in the Fifth Commandment? \n \n A64: The Fifth Commandment requireth the preserving the honour, and \n \n performing the duties,\n \n belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, \n \n inferiors, or equals. \n \n \n \n \nQ65: What is the forbidden in the Fifth Commandment? \n \n A65: The Fifth Commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing \n \n anything against, the honour\n \n and duty which belongeth to every one in their several places and \n \n relations. \n \n \n \n \nQ66: What is the reason annexed to the Fifth Commandment? \n \n A66: The reason annexed to the Fifth Commandment is a promise of long \n \n life and prosperity (as far\n \n as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good) to all such as keep this \n \n commandment. \n \n \n \n \nQ67: Which is the Sixth Commandment? \n \n A67: The Sixth Commandment is, \"thou shalt not kill.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ68: What is required in the Sixth Commandment? \n \n A68: The Sixth Commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve \n \n our own life, and the\n \n life of others. \n \n \n \n \nQ69: What is forbidden in the Sixth Commandment? \n \n A69: The Sixth Commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, \n \n or the life of our\n \n neighbour unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto. \n \n \n \n \nQ70: Which is the Seventh Commandment? \n \n A70: The Seventh Commandment is, \"thou shalt not commit adultery.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ71: What is required in the Seventh Commandment? \n \n A71: The Seventh Commandment requireth the preservation of our own \n \n and our neighbor's\n \n chasity, in heart, speech, and behaviour. \n \n \n \n \nQ72: What is forbidden in the Seventh Commandment? \n \n A72: The Seventh Commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, \n \n and actions. \n \n \n \n \nQ73: Which is the Eighth Commandment? \n \n A73: The Eighth Commandment is, \"thou shalt not steal.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ74: What is required in the Eighth Commandment? \n \n A74: The Eighth Commandment requireth the lawful procuring and \n \n furthering the wealth and\n \n outward estate of ourselves and others. \n \n \n \n \nQ75: What is forbidden in the Eighth Commandment? \n \n A75: The Eighth Commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth or may \n \n unjustly hinder our own or\n \n our neighbour's wealth or outward estate. \n \n \n \n \nQ76: What is the Ninth Commandment? \n \n A76: The Ninth Commandment is, \"thou shalt not bear false witness against \n \n thy neighbour.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ77: What is required in the Ninth Commandment? \n \n A77: The Ninth Commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of \n \n truth between man and\n \n man, and of our own and our neighbour's good name, especially in witness-\n \n bearing. \n \n \n \n \nQ78: What is forbidden in the Ninth Commandment? \n \n A78: The Ninth Commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudical to \n \n truth, or injurious to our\n \n own or our neighbour's good name. \n \n \n \n \nQ79: Which is the Tenth Commandment? \n \n A79: The Tenth Commandment is, \"thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's \n \n house, thou shalt not\n \n covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor \n \n his ox, nor his ass, nor\n \n any thing that is thy neighbour's.\" \n \n \n \n \nQ80: What is required in the Tenth Commandment? \n \n A80: The Tenth Commandment requireth full contentment with our own \n \n condition, with a right and\n \n charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbour, and all this is his. \n \n \n \n \nQ81: What is forbidden in the Tenth Commandment? \n \n A81: The Tenth Commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our \n \n own own estate, envying or\n \n grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and \n \n affections to any thing that is\n \n his.\n \n \n \n \nQ82: Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?\n \n A82: No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the \n \n commandments of God, but\n \n doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.\n \n \n \n \nQ83: Are all transgression of the law equally heinous?\n \n A83: Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations are \n \n more heinous in the sight\n \n of God than others.\n \n \n \n \nQ84: What doth every sin deserve?\n \n A84: Every sin deserveth God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that \n \n which is to come.\n \n \n \n \nQ85: What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and \n \n curse \n \n due to us for sin?\n \n A85: To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, God requireth \n \n of us faith in Jesus\n \n Christ, repentance unto life, with the diligent use of all the outward means \n \n whereby Christ\n \n communicateth to us the benefits of redemption.\n \n \n \n \nQ86: What is faith in Jesus Christ?\n \n A86: Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest \n \n upon him alone for\n \n salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.\n \n \n \n \nQ87: What is repentance unto life?\n \n A87: Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true \n \n sense of his sin, and\n \n apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of \n \n his sin, turn from it\n \n unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience.\n \n \n \n \nQ88: What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us \n \n the \n \n benefits of redemption?\n \n A88: The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to \n \n us the benefits of\n \n redemption, are his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and \n \n prayer; all which are made\n \n effectual to the elect for salvation.\n \n \n \n \nQ89: How is the Word made effectual to salvation?\n \n A89: The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of \n \n the Word, an effectual\n \n means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in \n \n holiness and comfort,\n \n through faith, unto salvation.\n \n \n \n \nQ90: How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become \n \n effectual \n \n to salvation?\n \n A90: The the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend \n \n thereunto with diligence,\n \n preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our \n \n hearts, and practise it in our\n \n lives.\n \n \n \n \nQ91: How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?\n \n A91: The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any \n \n virtue in them, or in him\n \n that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the \n \n working of his Spirit in them\n \n that by faith receive them.\n \n \n \n \nQ92: What is a sacrament?\n \n A92: A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ, wherein, by \n \n sensible signs, Christ, and\n \n the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to \n \n believers.\n \n \n \n \nQ93: Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?\n \n A93: The sacraments of the New Testament are, Baptism, and the Lord's \n \n supper.\n \n \n \n \nQ94: What is baptism?\n \n A94: Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name \n \n of the Father, and of the\n \n Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, \n \n and partaking of the\n \n benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's.\n \n \n \n \nQ95: To whom is baptism to be administered?\n \n A95: Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible \n \n church, till they profess\n \n their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are \n \n members of the visible\n \n church are to be baptized.\n \n \n \n \nQ96: What is the Lord's supper?\n \n A96: The Lord's Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving \n \n bread and wine,\n \n according to Christ's appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worth \n \n receivers are, not after\n \n a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body \n \n and blood, with all his\n \n benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.\n \n \n \n \nQ97: What is required to be the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper?\n \n A97: It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord's \n \n super, that they examine\n \n themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord's body, of their faith to \n \n feed upon him, of their\n \n repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and \n \n drink judgement to\n \n themselves.\n \n \n \n \nQ98: What is prayer?\n \n A98: Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God for things agreeable \n \n to his will, in the name\n \n of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgement of his \n \n mercies.\n \n \n \n \nQ99: What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?\n \n A99: The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special \n \n rule of direction is that\n \n form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called The \n \n Lord's Prayer.\n \n \n \n \nQ100: What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?\n \n A100: The preface of the Lord's prayer, which is, \"Our Father which art in \n \n heaven,\" teacheth us to\n \n draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a \n \n father, able and ready to\n \n help us; and that we should pray with and for others.\n \n \n \n \nQ101: What do we pray for in the first petition?\n \n A101: In the first petition, which is, \"Hallowed be thy name,\" we pray, That \n \n God would enable us\n \n and others to glorify him in all that whereby he maketh himself known; \n \n and that he would dispose\n \n all things to his own glory.\n \n \n \n \nQ102: What do we pray for in the second petition?\n \n A102: In the second petition, which is, \"Thy kingdom come,\" we pray, That \n \n Satan's kingdom may\n \n be destroyed; and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves \n \n and others brought into it,\n \n and kept in it; and the kingdom of glory may be hastened.\n \n \n \n \nQ103: What do we pray for in the third petition?\n \n A103: In the third petition, which is, \"Thy will be done in earth, as it is in \n \n heaven,\" we pray, That\n \n God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and \n \n submit to his will in all\n \n things, as the angels do in heaven.\n \n \n \n \nQ104: What do we pray for in the fourth petition?\n \n A104: In the fourth petition, which is, \"Give us this day our daily bread,\" \n \n we pray, That of God's\n \n free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, \n \n and enjoy his blessing\n \n with them.\n \n \n \n \nQ105: What do we pray for in the fifth petition?\n \n A105: In the fifth petition, which is, \"And forgive us our debts, as we \n \n forgive our debtors,\" we\n \n pray, That God, for Christ's sake, would freely pardon all our sins; which \n \n we are able to be rather\n \n encouraged to ask, because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to \n \n forgive others.\n \n \n \n \nQ106: What do we pray for in the sixth petition?\n \n A106: In the sixth petition, which is, \"And lead us not into temptation, but \n \n deliver us from evil,\"\n \n we pray, That God would either keep us from being tempted to sin, or \n \n support and deliver us when\n \n we are tempted.\n \n \n \n \nQ107: What doth the conclusion the Lord's prayer teach us?\n \n A107: The conclusion of the Lord's prayer, which is, \"For thine is the \n \n kingdom, and the power,\n \n and the glory, for ever, Amen.\" teacheth us, to take our encouragement in \n \n prayer from God only,\n \n and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power and glory to \n \n him.\n \n \n \n \nAnd, in testimony of our desire, and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen.","title":"Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)","type":"page"}