Of God Of Man The Fall The Mediator
100
There is but one only, the living and true God.
Are there more Gods than one?
100
God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
How did God create man?
100
The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
100
God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.
Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
200
There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.Q7: What are the decrees of God?
How many persons are there in the Godhead?
200
God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.
What are God's works of providence?
200
The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
200
Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.
What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
300
God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
How doth God execute his decrees?
300
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
What is sin?
300
All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.
What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
300
Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
400
The work of creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
What is the work of creation
400
The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.
Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
400
When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.
What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
400
Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
500
The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the council of his will, whereby, for his own glory, He hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass.
What are the decrees of God?
500
Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
500
Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.
How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?






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