Table of Contents for the Westminster Larger Catechism

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