Table of Contents for the Westminster Shorter Catechism
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- What is the chief end of man?
- What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him?
- What do the Scriptures principally teach?
- What is God?
- Are there more Gods than one?
- How many persons are there in the Godhead?
- What are the decrees of God?
- How doth God execute his decrees?
- What is the work of creation?
- How did God create man?
- What are God’s works of providence?
- What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
- Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
- What is sin?
- What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
- Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
- Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
- Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
- What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
- Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
- Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
- How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
- What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
- How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
- How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
- How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
- Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
- Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?
- How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
- How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
- What is effectual calling?
- What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
- What is justification?
- What is adoption?
- What is sanctification?
- What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
- What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
- What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
- What is the duty which God requireth of man?
- What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
- Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended?
- What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?
- What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?
- What doth the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us?
- Which is the First Commandment?
- What is required in the First Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the First Commandment?
- What are we specially taught by these words, “before me” in the First Commandment?
- Which is the Second Commandment?
- What is required in the Second Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the Second Commandment?
- What are the reasons annexed to the Second Commandment?
- Which is the Third Commandment?
- What is required in the Third Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the Third Commandment?
- What is the reason annexed to the Third Commandment?
- Which is the Fourth Commandment?
- What is required in the Fourth Commandment?
- Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
- How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
- What is forbidden in the Fourth Commandment?
- What are the reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment?
- Which is the Fifth Commandment?
- What is required in the Fifth Commandment?
- What is the forbidden in the Fifth Commandment?
- What is the reason annexed to the Fifth Commandment?
- Which is the Sixth Commandment?
- What is required in the Sixth Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the Sixth Commandment?
- Which is the Seventh Commandment?
- What is required in the Seventh Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the Seventh Commandment?
- Which is the Eighth Commandment?
- What is required in the Eighth Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the Eighth Commandment?
- What is the Ninth Commandment?
- What is required in the Ninth Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the Ninth Commandment?
- Which is the Tenth Commandment?
- What is required in the Tenth Commandment?
- What is forbidden in the Tenth Commandment?
- Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
- Are all transgression of the law equally heinous?
- What doth every sin deserve?
- What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
- What is faith in Jesus Christ?
- What is repentance unto life?
- What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
- How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
- How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
- How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
- What is a sacrament?
- Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
- What is baptism?
- To whom is baptism to be administered?
- What is the Lord’s supper?
- What is required to be the worthy receiving of the Lord’s supper?
- What is prayer?
- What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
- What doth the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us?
- What do we pray for in the first petition?
- What do we pray for in the second petition?
- What do we pray for in the third petition?
- What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
- What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
- What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
- What doth the conclusion the Lord’s prayer teach us?
