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A34242	The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.; Westminster Confession of Faith.	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663. Summe of saving knowledge.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Larger catechism.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Shorter catechism.	1671 (1671)	Wing C5769; ESTC R27273	112,419	253

of the invisible Church have with Christ A. The communion in glory which the members of the invisible Church have with Christ is in this life immediately after death and at last perfected at the Resurrection and day of Judgment Q. 83. What is the Communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible Church enjoy in this life A. The members of the invisible Church have communicated to them in this life the first fruits of glory with Christ as they are members of him their head so in him are interested in that glory which he is fully possessed of and as an earnest thereof enjoy the sense of Gods love peace of conscience joy in the holy Ghost hope of glory as on the contrary the sense of Gods revenging wrath horror of conscience and a fearful expectation of judgment are to the wicked the beginning of their torments which they shall endure after death Q. 84. Shall all men die A. Death being threatned as the wages of sin it is appointed unto all men once to die for that all have sinned Q. 85. Death being the wages of sin why are not the righteous delivered from death seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ A. The righteous shall be delivered from death it self at the last day even in death are delivered from the sting curse of it so that although they die yet it is out of Gods love to free them perfectly from sin and misery to make then capable of further communion with Christ in glory which they then enter upon Q. 89. What is the Communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible Church enjoy immediately after death A. The communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible Church enjoy immediately after death is in that their souls are then made perfect in ho●iness and received into the highest heavens whe●e they behold the face of God in light and glory wa●ting for the f●ll redemption of their bodies which even in death continue united to Christ and rest in their Graves as in their Beds till at the last day they be again united to their souls whereas the souls of the wicked are at death cast into hel where they remain in torments and utter darkness and their bodies kept in their graves as in their Prisons till the great day Q. 87. What are we to believe concerning the Resurrection A. We are to believe that at the last day there shall be a general Resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust when they that are then found alive shall in a moment be changed the self same bodies of the dead which were laid in the grave being then again united to their souls forever shall be raised up by the power of Christ the bodies of the just by the Spirit of Christ by vertue of his resurrection as their head shall be raised in power spiritual incorruptible and made like to his glorious body and the bodies of the wicked shall be raised up in dishonour by him as an offended Judge Q. 88. What shall immediately follow after the Resurrection A. Immediately after the resurrection shall follow the general and final judgment of Angels and men the day hour whereof no man knows that all may watch pray be ever ready for the coming of the Lord Q. 89. What shall be done to the wicked at the day of Iudgment A. At the day of judgment the wicked shall be set on Christs left hand and upon clear evidence full conviction of their own consciences shall have the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced against them and thereupon shall be cast out from the favourable Presence of God the glorious fellowship with Christ his Saints and all his holy Angels into hell to be punished with unspeakable torments both of body and soul with the Devil and his Angels for ever Q. 90. What shall be done to the Righteous at the day of Iudgment A. At the day of judgment the righteous being caught up to Christ in the clouds shall be set on his right hand there openly acknowledged and acquitted shall joyn with him in the judging of reprobate Angels and men and shall be received into heaven where they shall be fully and for ever freed from all sin and misery i filled with unconceivable joyes made perfectly holy and happy both in body and soul in the company of innumerable saints and holy Angels but especially in the immediate vision and fruition of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the holy Spirit to all eternity this is the perfect and full communion which the members of the invisible Church shall enjoy with Christ in glory at the resurrection and day of Judgment Having seen what the Scriptures principally teach us to believe concerning God it follows to consider what they require as the duty of man Q. 91. WHat is the duty that God requireth of man A. The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to his revealed will Q. 92. What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the state of innocency and to all mankind in him beside a special command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the moral Law Q. 93. What is the Moral Law A. The Moral Law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind directing and binding every one to personal perfeect and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto in the fruits dispositions of the whole man soul and body and in performance of all those duties of holiness and righteousness which he oweth to God and man promising life upon the fulfilling and threatning death upon the breach of it Q. 94. Is there any use of the Moral Law to man since the fall A. Although no man since the fall can attain to righteousness and life by the Moral Law yet there is great use thereof as well common to all men as peculiar either to the unregenerate or regenerate Q. 95. Of what use is the Moral Law to all men A. The Moral Law is of use to all men to inform them of the holy nature and will of God of their duty binding them to walk accorddingly to convince them of their disability to keep it of the sinful pollution of their nature hearts lives to humble them in sense of their sin and misery and there by help them to a clear sight of the need they have of Christ and of the perfection of his obedience Q. 96. What particular use is there of the Moral Law to unregenerate

we pray for our selves and others that both they we waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means may of his free gift and as to his fatherly wisdom shall seem best enjoy a competent portion of them and have the same continued and blessed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of them and contentment in them be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal support and comfort Q. 194. What do we pray for in the fifth Petition A. In the fifth Petition which is Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors acknowledging that we all others are guilty both of original and actual sin thereby become debters to the justice of God and that neither we nor any other creature can make the least sa●isfaction for that debt we pray for our selves others that God of his free grace would through the obedience satisfaction of Christ apprehended applyed by faith acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of sin accept us in his beloved continue his favour and grace to us pardon our daily failings fill us with peace and joy in giving us daily more and more assurance of forgiveness which we are the rather emboldned to ask and encouraged to expect when we have this Testimony in our selves that we from the heart forgive others their offences Q. 195. What do we pray for in the sixth Petition A In the sixth Petition which is And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil acknowledging that the most wise righteous and gracious God for divers holy and just ends may so order things that we may be assaulted and for a time led captive by temptations that Satan the world and the flesh are ready powerfully to draw us aside and insnare us that we even after the pardon of our sins by reason of our corruption weakness and want of watchfulness are not only subject to be tempted forward to expose our selves unto temptations but also of our selve● unable unwilling to resist them to recover out of them and to improve them and worthy to be left under the power of them we pray that God would so over-rule the world and al● in it subdue the flesh and restrain Satan order all thing● bestow and bless all means of grace and quicken us to watchfulness in the use of them that we and all his people may b● hi● pr●vidence be kept from being 〈◊〉 to sin or if tempted that by 〈◊〉 spirit we may be powerfully supported and enabled to stand in that hour of temptation or when fallen raised and again recovered out of it have a sanctified use and improvement thereof that our sanctification salvation may be perfected Satan trodden under our feet and we fully freed from sin temtation and all evil for ever Q. 196. What doth the conclusion of the Lords prayer teach us A. The conclusion of the Lords prayer which is For thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever Amen teacheth us to enforce our Petitions with arguments which are to be taken not from any worthiness in our selves or in any other creature but from God and with our prayers to joyn praises ascribing to God alone eternal Soveraignty omnipotency and glorious excellency in regard whereof as he is able and willing to help us so we by faith are imboldned to plead with him that he would and quietly to rely upon him that he will fulfil our requests and to testifie this our desire and assurance we say Amen The Shorter CATECHISM First agreed upon by the Assembly of DiVines at Westminster And now appointed by the General assembly of the Kirk of Scotland to be a part of Uniformity in Religion between the Kirks of Christ in the three Kingdoms Quest. 1. WHat is the chief end of Man A. Mans chief end is to glorifie God and to enjoy him for ever Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorifie and enjoy him A. The Word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament is the only rule to direct us how we may glorifie and enjoy him Q. 3. 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 Q. 4 What is God A. God is a spirit infinite eternal and unchangeable in his being wisdom power holiness justice goodness and Truth Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one A. There is but one only the living and true God Q. 6. How many persons are there in the Godhead A. There are three persons in the God-head the Father the Son and the holy Ghost and these three are one God the same in substance equal in power and glory Q. 7. What are the decrees of God A. The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his will whereby for his own glory he hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass Q. 8. How doth God execute his Decrees A. God executeth his Decrees in the works of Creation Providence Q. 9. What is the work of Creation A The work of Creation is Gods making all things of nothing by the word of his power in the space of six days and all very good Q. 10. How did G●d create man A. God created man male female after his own image in knowledge righteousness and holiness with dominion over the creatures Q. 11. What are Gods works of Providence A. Gods works of providence are his most holy wise and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created A. When God had created Man he entred into a Covenant of life with him upon condition of perfect obedience forbidding him to eat of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil upon pain of death Q. 13. Did our first Parents continue in the estate wherein they were created A Our first Parents being left to the freedom of their own will fell from the estate wherein they were created by sinning against God Q. 14. What is sin A. Sin is any want of conformity unto or transgression of the Law of God Q. 15. What was the sin whereby our first Parents fell from the estate wherein they were created A. The sin whereby our first Parents ●ell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit Q. 16. Did all mankind fall in Adams first transgression A. The Covenant being made

gave him commandment to execute the same IV. This Office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake which that he might discharge he was made under the Law and did perfectly fulfill it endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul and most painful sufferings in his body was crucified and died was buried and remained under the power of death yet saw no ●●●●uption On the third day h● arose from the dead with the same ●●dy in which h● 〈◊〉 with which also he ascend●● i●to heaven and th●re sitteth at the ●ight hand of his Father g making 〈◊〉 h and shall return to judge m●n and Angels at the end of the World V. The Lord Jesus by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself which he through the eternal spirit once offered up to God hath fully satisfied the Justice of his Father and purchased not only reconciliation but an everlasting inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven for all those whom the Father hath given unto him VI. Although the work of Redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his Incarnation yet the vertue efficacy and benefits thereof were communicated unto the elect in all ages successively from the beginning of the World in and by those promises types and sacrifices wherein he was revealed and signified to be the seed of the Woman which should bruise the Serpents head and the Lamb slain from the beginning of the World being yesterday and to day the same and for ever VII Christ in the work of Mediation acteth according to both Natures by each Nature doing that which is proper to it self yet by reason of the unity of the Person that which is proper to one nature is some times in Scripture attributed to the Person denominated by the other Nature VIII To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same making intercession for them and revealing unto them in and by the word the Mysteries of Salvation effectually perswading them by his spirit to believe and obey and governing their hearts by his word and spirit overcoming all their enemies by his Almighty Power and Wisdom in such manner and wayes as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation CHAP. IX Of Free Will GOD hath indued the Will of Man with that natural liberty that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of Nature determined to do good or evil II. Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good well-pleasing to God but yet mutably so that he might fall from it III. Man by his fall into a state of sin hath wholly lost all ability of Will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation so as a natural man being altogether averse from that good and dead in sin is not able by his own strength to convert himself or to prepare himself thereunto IV. When God converts a sinner and translates him into the state of grace he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin and by his grace inables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good yet so as by reason of his remaining corruption he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good but doth also will that which is evil V. The will of man is made per●ectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of Glory only CHAP. X. Of effectual calling ALL those whom God hath predestinated unto life and those only he is pleased in his appointed accepted time effectually to call by his word and Spirit out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ in lightning their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God taking away their heart of stone and giving unto them an heart of flesh renewing their wills and by his Almighty power determining them to that which is good effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ yet so as they come most freely being made willing by his grace II. This effectual Call is of Gods free and special grace alone not from any thing at all foreseen in man who is altogether passive therein until being quickened renewed by the holy Spirit he is thereby inabled to answer this Call and to imbrace the grace offered and conveyed in it III. Elect infants dying in Infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit who worketh when where and how he pleaseth So also are all other elect Persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the Word IV. Others not elected though they may be called by the Ministry of the Word and may have some common operations of the Spirit yet they never truely come unto Christ and therefore cannot be saved much less can men not professing the Christian Religion be saved in any other way whatsoever be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of Nature and the Law of that Religion they do profess And to assert and maintain that they may is very pernicious and to be detested CHAP. XI Of Iustification THose whom GOD effectually calleth he also freely justifieth not by infusing righteousness into them but by pardoning their sins by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous not for any thing wrought in them or done by them but for Christs sake alone nor by imputing faith itself the act of believing nor any other evangelical obedience to them as their righteousness but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith which faith they have not of themselves it is the gift of God II Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness is the alone instrument of justification yet is it not alone in the person justified but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces is no dead faith but worketh by love III. Christ by his obedience and death did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified and did make a proper real and full satisfaction to his Fathers Justice in their behalf Yet in as much as he was given by the Father for them and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead hand both freely not for any thing in them their justification is only of free grace that both the exact justice rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners IV. God did from all eternity decree to justifie all the elect and Christ did in the fulness of time die f●r their sins and rise again for their justification nevertheless they