The Westminster Larger Catechism

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