Question: How many persons are there in the Godhead?

Answer: 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.

Question: Are there three gods?

Answer: No: For the Lord is one, and his name one, Zech. 14:9.

Question: Is there more than one person in the Godhead?

Answer: Yes: For God said, Let us make man, Gen. 1.26.

Question: Are there distinct persons in the Godhead?

Answer: Yes: For he who is the brightness of his Father's glory, is the express image of his person, Heb. 1:3.

Question: Are there three persons in the Godhead?

Answer: Yes: For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, 1 John 5:7.

Question: Is the Father God?

Answer: Yes: For there is one God and Father of all, Eph. 4:6.

Question: Is Jesus Christ the Word?

Answer: Yes: His name is called the Word of God, Rev. 19:13.

Question: Is the Word God?

Answer: Yes: For in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, John 1:1.

Question: Is the Holy Ghost a divine person?

Answer: Yes: For the Spirit searcheth all things, 1 Cor. 2:10.

Question: Is it the personal property of the Father to beget the Son?

Answer: Yes: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, Ps. 2:7.

Question: Is it the personal property of the Son to be begotten of the Father?

Answer: Yes: For he is the only-begotten of the Father, John 1:14.

Question: Is it the personal property of the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son?

Answer: Yes: For Christ says, I will send you the Comforter, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, John 15:26.

Question: Are these three one God?

Answer: Yes: For it is said expressly, these three are one, 1 John 5:7.

Question: Are they the same in substance, and equal in power and glory?

Answer: Yes: For Christ says, I and my Father are one, John 10:30.

Question: Can this doctrine be measured by reason?

Answer: No: For flesh and blood hath not revealed it to us, Matt. 16:17.

Question: But ought we to believe it?

Answer: Yes: For we are baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Matt. 28:19. And we are blessed with the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, 2 Cor. 13:14.

Question: And ought we to improve it?

Answer: Yes: That we all may be one, as the Father is in Christ, and he in the Father, that we also may be one in them, John 17:21.


Question: What are the decrees of God?

Answer: The decrees of God are his eternal purposes, according to the counsel of his own will : whereby for his own glory he hath foreordained whatever comes to pass.

Question: Does God dispose of all things that come to pass?

Answer: Yes: My times are in thy hand, Ps. 31:15.

Question: Does he do it according to his own will?

Answer: Yes: For he hath done whatsoever he pleased, Ps. 115:2.

Question: Can any control his will?

Answer: No: For he doth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, Dan. 4:35.

Question: Has he determined before what he will do?

Answer: Yes: For known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world, Acts 15:18.

Question: Is there a counsel then in all the will of God?

Answer: Yes: For he worketh all things after the counsel of his own will, Eph. 1:11.

Question: Is it an eternal counsel?

Answer: Yes: For it was ordained before the world, 1 Cor. 2:7.

Question: Is it free?

Answer: Yes: Even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight, Matt. 11:26.

Question: Is it unchangeable?

Answer: Yes: The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, Ps. 33:11.

Question: Is it for his own glory?

Answer: Yes: That we should be to the praise of his glory, Eph. 1:12.

Question: Were all the events of time ordained from eternity?

Answer: Yes: He performeth the thing that is appointed for me, Job 23:14.

Question: Does any thing come to pass by chance?

Answer: No: For the lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord, Prov. 16:33.

Question: Does every thing come to pass as God has ordained it?

Answer: Yes: For there are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand, Prov. 19:21.

Question: 4.Can we search out God's counsels?

Answer: No: For his judgments are a great deep, Ps. 36:6.

Question: Ought we not therefore to acquiesce in them?

Answer: Yes: Here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him, 2 Sam. 15:26.

Question: May we question God's proceedings?

Answer: No: For his thoughts are above our thoughts, Isa. 55:9.


Question: How does God execute his decrees?

Answer: God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence.

Question: Shall all God's decrees be executed?

Answer: Yes: For the Lord of hosts hath sworn, surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, Isa. 14:24.

Question: Can any of them be defeated?

Answer: No: For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? Isa. 14:27.

Question: Did God execute his decree in the work of creation?

Answer: Yes: He hath created all things, and for his pleasure they are and were created, Rev. 4:11.

Question: And does he execute his decrees in the works of providence?

Answer: Yes: For out of the mouth of the Most High both evil and good proceed, Lam. 3:38.

Question: Did God begin to work in the creation of the world?

Answer: Yes: Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, Heb. 1:10.

Question: Is he still working?

Answer: Yes: For Christ says, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work, John 5:17.

Question: Are all his works copied out of his counsels?

Answer: Yes: For they are what his hand and his counsel determine before to be done, Acts 4:28.

Question: Are God's works many?

Answer: Yes: O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. 104:24.

Question: Are they great?

Answer: Yes: His work is honourable and glorious, Ps. 111:8.

Question: Are they perfect in their kind?

Answer: Yes: God is the Rock, his work is perfect, Deut. 32:4.

Question: Can they be amended?

Answer: No: Whatsoever God doth, nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it, Eccl. 3:14.

Question: Ought they to be studied?

Answer: Yes: They are sought out of all them that have pleasure therein, Ps. 111:2.

Question: Is it a great sin to neglect them?

Answer: Yes: Because they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operations of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up, Ps. 28:5.

Question: Can all God's works be thoroughly discovered?

Answer: No: For no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end, Eccl. 3:11.

Question: Can his designs in them be accounted for?

Answer: No: For his way is in the sea, and his path in the great waters, Ps. 77:19.

Question: But is he glorified in them?

Answer: Yes: All his works do praise him, Ps. 145:10.


Question: What is the work of creation?

Answer: 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.

Question: Did God create the world?

Answer: Yes: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, Gen. 1:1.

Question: Did he create everything in the world?

Answer: Yes: For without him was not any thing made that was made, John 1:3; Jhn 1:10; Col 1:16-17.

Question: Did he create the world by his word?

Answer: Yes: For through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, Heb. 11:3.

Question: Did all things come into being by that word?

Answer: Yes: For by the word of God the heavens were of old, 2 Pet. 3:5.

Question: And are they thereby preserved in being?

Answer: Yes: By the same word they are kept in store, 2 Pet 3:7.

Question: Did God find any difficulty in making the world?

Answer: No: For he spake and it was done; he said, Let there be light, and there was light, Ps. 33:9; Gen. 1:3.

Question: Did he need assistance in it?

Answer: No: For he stretcheth forth the heavens alone, and spreadeth abroad the earth by himself, Isa. 44:24.

Question: Did he make all out of nothing?

Answer: Yes: For the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear, Heb. 11:13.

Question: Did he bring light out of darkness?

Answer: Yes: For God commanded the light to shine out of darkness, 2 Cor. 4:6.

Question: And order out of confusion?

Answer: Yes: For the earth was without form and void, Gen. 1:2.

Question: Did he make all in six days?

Answer: Yes: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, Exod. 20:11.

Question: Did God make all well?

Answer: Yes: God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good, Gen. 1:31.

Question: Did he make all firm?

Answer: Yes: He hath made a decree which shall not pass, Ps. 148:6.

Question: And all for himself?

Answer: Yes: The Lord has made all things for himself, Prov. 16:4.

Question: Did God make all things by Jesus Christ?

Answer: Yes: For by him also he made the worlds, Heb. 1:2. and created all things by Jesus Christ, Eph. 3:9; Col. 1:16; John 1:3.

Question: Did God manifest his own perfections in the work of creation?

Answer: Yes: For the heavens declare the glory of God, Ps. 19:1.

Question: Must we give him the glory of this work?

Answer: Yes: We must worship him that made the heaven and the earth, Rev. 14:7.

Question: Must we give him thanks for his creatures?

Answer: Yes: Every creature of God is good, and to be received with thanksgiving, 1 Tim. 4:4.

Question: May we be encouraged by the work of creation to trust in God?

Answer: Yes: My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth, Ps. 121:2.

Question: Did God create the angels?

Answer: Yes: He maketh his angels spirits, Heb. 1:7.

Question: Are they attendants upon him?

Answer: Yes: Thousand thousands minister unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stand before him, Dan. 7:10.

Question: Are they employed for the good of the saints?

Answer: Yes: They are sent forth to minister for them which shall be heirs of salvation, Heb. 1:14.

Question: Have true believers communion with them in faith, hope, and love?

Answer: Yes: For we are come to an innumerable company of angels, Heb. 12:22.

Question: Did all the angels continue in their integrity?

Answer: No: There were angels that left their first state, Jude 1:6.

Question: Is it probable that they who fell, fell by pride?

Answer: Yes: For they that are lifted up with pride, fall into the condemnation of the devil, 1 Tim. 3:6.

Question: Were they punished for their sin?

Answer: Yes: God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, 2 Pet. 2:4.


Question: How did God create man?

Answer: God created man male and female, after his image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

Question: Is man God's creature?

Answer: Yes: For we are also his offspring, Acts 17:28.

Question: Were our first parents the work of his hands?

Answer: Yes: Male and female created he them, and called their name Adam, Gen. 5:2.

Question: Was man made with a consultation?

Answer: Yes: For God said, Let us make man, Gen. 1:26.

Question: Do all the children of men descend from Adam and Eve?

Answer: Yes: For God has made of one blood all nations of men, Acts 17:26.

Question: Was man's body at first made out of the earth?

Answer: Yes: God made man of the dust of the ground, Gen. 11:7.

Question: And are our bodies of the earth earthy?

Answer: Yes: For I also am formed out of the clay, Job 33:6.

Question: But are they not curiously wrought?

Answer: Yes: For I am fearfully and wonderfully made, Ps. 139:14.

Question: Is God the former of our bodies?

Answer: Yes: Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and fenced me with bones and sinews, Job 10:11.

Question: Is he the author of our senses?

Answer: Yes: The hearing ear, and seeing eye, the Lord has made even both of them, Prov. 20:12.

Question: Is God the Father of our spirits?

Answer: Yes: For he breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life, Gen. 2:7.

Question: Has God given each of us a soul?

Answer: Yes: The Lord liveth that made us this soul, Jer. 38:16.

Question: Is it a rational soul?

Answer: Yes for the spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord, Prov. 20:27.

Question: Is it immortal?

Answer: Yes: For the spirit of a man goes upward, Eccl. 3:21.

Question: Does it die with the body?

Answer: No: For when the dust returns to the earth as it was, the Spirit returns to God who gave it, Eccl. 12:7.

Question: Is God then the Sovereign of the heart?

Answer: Yes: For he has said, Behold, all souls are mine, Ezek. 18:4.

Question: Must we therefore commit our souls to him?

Answer: Yes: Into thine hand I commit my spirit, Ps. 31:5.

Question: Was man made after God's image?

Answer: Yes: God created man in his own image, Gen. 1:27.

Question: Did that image consist in knowledge?

Answer: Yes: For we are renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created us, Col. 3:10.

Question: Did it consist in righteousness and true holiness?

Answer: Yes: For the new man after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, Eph. 4:24.

Question: Was there in man at first a perfect purity and freedom from sin ?

Answer: Yes: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, Ezek. 28:15. Compare Ezek. 16:13.

Question: Was there in him a perfect rectitude and disposition to good?

Answer: Yes: For God made man upright, Eccl. 7:29.

Question: Are there some remains of God's image still upon man?

Answer: Yes: For men are made after the similitude of God, Jam. 3:9.

Question: Was man made with a dominion over the creatures?

Answer: Yes: For thou hast put all things under his feet, Ps. 8:6.

Question: Have we not reason to admire God's favour to man?

Answer: Yes: Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him? Ps. 144:3.


Question: What are God's works of providence?

Answer: God's works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.

Question: When God had made the world, did he leave it to itself?

Answer: No: For he upholdeth all things by the word of his power, Heb. 1:3.

Question: Does he see to the whole creation?

Answer: Yes: For the eyes of the Lord are in every place, Prov. 15:3.

Question: Does he condescend to take notice of his creatures?

Answer: Yes: He humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth, Ps. 113:6.

Question: Is any thing at a distance from him?

Answer: No: For he is not far from every one of us, Acts 17:27.

Question: Does he look on as one unconcerned?

Answer: No: For his eyes behold, and his eyelids try, the children of men, Ps. 11:4.

Question: Does God look after the world of angels?

Answer: Yes: For he maketh peace in his high places, Job 25:2.

Question: Does he look after this lower world?

Answer: Yes: For the eyes of all wait upon him, Ps. 145:15.

Question: Does he take care of the fowls?

Answer: Yes: Our heavenly Father feedeth them, Matt. 6:26.

Question: What! even the sparrows?

Answer: Yes: Not one of them shall fall to the ground without our Father, Matt. 10:29.

Question: What! and the ravens?

Answer: Yes: He feeds the young ravens which cry, Ps. 147:9.

Question: Is he the Protector and Benefactor of all the creatures?

Answer: Yes: Thou preservest them all, Neh. 9:6.

Question: Is he man's Protector and Benefactor?

Answer: Yes: For in him we live, and move, and have our being, Acts 17:28.

Question: Do we depend upon God for the support of our life?

Answer: Yes: For he holdeth our soul in life, Ps 66:9.

Question: And for the comforts of life?

Answer: Yes: For he giveth us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness, Acts 14:17.

Question: And do we depend upon him for the safety of our life?

Answer: Yes: He keepeth all our bones, Ps. 34:20.

Question: And for the continuance of life?

Answer: Yes: For he is thy life, and the length of thy days, Deut. 30:20.

Question: Does God govern all things?

Answer: Yes: His kingdom ruleth over all, Ps. 103:19.

Question: Does he govern the holy angels?

Answer: Yes: For they do his commandments, Ps. 103:20.

Question: Does he govern the heavenly bodies?

Answer: Yes: The stars in their courses fought against Sisera, Judg. 5:20.

Question: Does he govern the power of the air?

Answer: Yes: Stormy winds fulfil his word, Ps 148:8.

Question: Does he order what weather it shall be?

Answer: Yes: For he saith to the snow, Be thou upon the earth, Job 37:6.

Question: And does he govern the inferior creatures?

Answer: Yes: He spake, and locusts came, Ps. 105:34.

Question: Can he command them?

Answer: Yes: I have commanded the ravens to feed thee, 1 Kings 17:4.

Question: Can he control them?

Answer: Yes: He shut the lions' mouths, Dan 6:22.

Question: Has he a sovereign dominion over the whole creation?

Answer: Yes; For the Lord of hosts is his name, Isa 47:4.

Question: Does God govern the children of men?

Answer: Yes; The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, Dan 4:32.

Question: Does he govern kings?

Answer: Yes: For the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, Prov. 21:1.

Question: And does he govern kingdoms?

Answer: Yes; For he is the Governor among the nations, Ps. 22:28.

Question: And families too?

Answer: Yes; For except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it, Ps 127:1.

Question: Does be govern great men?

Answer: Yes: For God is the judge, he puts down one, and sets up another, Ps. 75:6,7.

Question: And mean men too?

Answer: Yes: For every man's judgment proceedeth from the Lord, Prov. 29:26.

Question: Can man make his own fortune?

Answer: No: For the way of man is not in himself, neither is it in man that walketh, to direct his steps, Jer. 1:23.

Question: When man purposes, does God dispose?

Answer: Yes: A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps, Prov. 16:9.

Question: Do all comforts and crosses come from God's hand?

Answer: Yes: For he has said, I make peace, and create evil; I the Lord do all these things, Isa. 45:7.

Question: Does God's providence extend itself to the smallest things?

Answer: Yes: The very hairs of your head are all numbered, Matt. 10:30.

Question: Is God's government holy?

Answer: Yes: He is holy in all his works, Ps. 145:17.

Question: Is it wise?

Answer: Yes: He is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working, Isa. 28:29.

Question: Is it powerful?

Answer: Yes: For when he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble, Job 39:29.

Question: Is it rightful?

Answer: Yes: God is greater than man, Job 33:12.

Question: Is it just?

Answer: Yes: For shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Gen. 18:25.

Question: Does God sometimes reward and punish in this life?

Answer: Yes: The righteous shall be recompensed in the earth, much more the wicked and the sinner, Prov. 11:31.

Question: But does he always?

Answer: No: For all things come alike to all, Eccl. 9:1, 2.

Question: Does God govern the world for the good of his Church?

Answer: Yes: For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have called thee by thy name, Isa. 45:4.

Question: Is the government of the world committed to the Lord Jesus?

Answer: Yes: For he is head over all things unto the church, Eph. 1:22.

Question: And is all ordered for God's glory?

Answer: Yes: For the Lord alone shall be exalted, Isa. 2:11.

Question: Is it a comfort to good men that God governs the world?

Answer: Yes: The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice, Ps. 97:1.

Question: Is it a terror to the wicked?

Answer: Yes: The Lord reigns, let the people tremble, Ps. 99:1.

Question: Ought we to give him the praise of it?

Answer: Yes: Hallelujah, the Lord God omnipotent reigns, Rev. 19:6.


Question: What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?

Answer: 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 knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.

Question: Did God make man happy as well as holy?

Answer: Yes: For he put him into the garden of Eden, Gen. 2:15.

Question: Did he provide comfortably for him?

Answer: Yes: For he said, I will make him a help meet for him, Gen. 2:18.

Question: Did he admit him into communion with himself?

Answer: Yes: For he then blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, Gen. 2:3.

Question: Was God well pleased in him?

Answer: Yes: For his delights were with the sons of men, Prov. 8:31.

Question: Did God give him a law?

Answer: Yes: The Lord God commanded the man, Gen. 2:16.

Question: Did he give him a command of trial?

Answer: Yes: Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, Gen. 2:17.

Question: Did he assure him of happiness, if he obeyed?

Answer: Yes: For of every tree in the garden (even the tree of life,) thou mayest freely eat, Gen. 2:16.

Question: Did he threaten death upon his disobedience?

Answer: Yes: For in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die, Gen. 2:17.

Question: Was this God's covenant with Adam?

Answer: Yes: For we read of those who, like Adam, transgressed the covenant, Hos. 6:7 (margin).

Question: Was, Do this and live, one branch of that covenant?

Answer: Yes: For the man that doeth them, shall live, in them, Gal. 3:12.

Question: Was, Fail and die the other branch of the covenant?

Answer: Yes: The soul that sinneth, it shall die, Ezek. 18:4.

Question: Was this the covenant of innocency?

Answer: Yes: For the law was ot of faith, Gal 3:12.

Question: Was there a mediator of this covenant?

Answer: No: For it is the better covenant that is established in the hands of a Mediator, Heb 8:6.


Question: Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were first created?

Answer: Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the state wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

Question: Is man now in the state wherein he was created?

Answer: No: For God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions, Eccl. 7:29.

Question: Can we now say we are perfectly holy?

Answer: No: If I say I am perfect, that shall prove me perverse, Job 9:20.

Question: Can we say we are perfectly happy?

Answer: No: For man is born to trouble, Job 5:7.

Question: Are we as we were then?

Answer: No: Man was planted a noble vine, but is turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine, Jer. 2:21.

Question: Did man continue long in his state of innocence?

Answer: No: For man being in honour abideth not, Ps. 49:42.

Question: Did God leave man to the freedom of his own will?

Answer: Yes: For if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it, Prov. 9:12.

Question: Did God draw Adam to sin?

Answer: No: For God tempteth no man, James 1:13.

Question: Is he any way the Author of' sin?

Answer: No: Far be it from God that he should do wickedness, Job 34:10.

Question: Did he do what was fit to be done to prevent it?

Answer: Yes: What could have been done more to my vineyard? Isa. 5:4.

Question: Was he obliged to do more?

Answer: No: For may he not do what he will with his own? Matt. 20:15.

Question: Does all the blame of man's sin lie upon himself then?

Answer: Yes: O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, Hos. 13:9.

Question: Did man fall by sinning against God?

Answer: Yes: Thou hast fallen by thine iniquity, Hos. 14:1.

Question: Was that the beginning of sin in this world?

Answer: Yes: For by one man sin entered into the world, Rom, 5:12.


Question: What is sin?

Answer: Sin is any want of conformity unto or transgression of, the law of God.

Question: Is there a moral difference of good and evil?

Answer: Yes: For we must cease to do evil, and learn to do well, Isa. 1:16, 17.

Question: Is it all alike then what we do?

Answer: No: For God shall bring every work into judgment, whether it be good, or whether it be evil, Eccl. 12:14.

Question: Is there such thing as sin in thought?

Answer: Yes: For the thought of foolishness is sin, Prov. 24:9.

Question: May sin be committed in word too?

Answer: Yes: For in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin, Prov. 10:19.

Question: Does sin suppose a law?

Answer: Yes: For where there is no law, there is no transgression, Rom. 4:15. and v. 13.

Question: Is sin the breach of a law?

Answer: Yes: For sin is the transgression of the law, 1 John 3:4.

Question: Is it God's law only that can make a thing to be sin?

Answer: Yes: For against thee, thee only, have I sinned, Ps. 51:4.

Question: Is every breach of God's law sin?

Answer: Yes: For all unrighteousness is sin, 1 John 5:17.

Question: Are we to judge of sin by the law?

Answer: Yes: For by the law is the knowledge of sin, Rom. 3:20.

Question: Could we discover sin without some law?

Answer: No: For I had not known sin but by the law. Rom. 7:7.

Question: Is the transgression of the law of nature sin?

Answer: Yes: For they that have not the written law, show the work of the law written in their hearts, Rom. 2:14, 15.

Question: But does the written law discover the root of sin?

Answer: Yes: I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet, Rom. 7:7.

Question: Is ignorance of God sin?

Answer: Yes: He shall take vengeance on them that know not God,. 2 Thes. 1:8.

Question: Is disaffection to God's government sin?

Answer: Yes: My people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me, Ps. 81:11.

Question: Is all disobedience to God's law sin?

Answer: Yes: For the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience, Col. 3:6.

Question: Is it a sin to omit the good which God has commanded?

Answer: Yes: For to him that knows to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin, James 4:17.

Question: Is it a sin to do it negligently?

Answer: Yes: For if thou doest not well, sin lies at the door, Gen. 4:7.

Question: Is it a sin to do the evil which God has forbidden?

Answer: Yes: For he has said, O do not this abominable thing which I hate, Jer. 44:4.

Question: Is the inclination to evil sin?

Answer: Yes: For St. Paul speaks of the sin that dwells in us, Rom 7:17.

Question: Is sin the worst of evils?

Answer: Yes: It is an evil thing, and a bitter, to forsake the Lord, Jer. 2:19.

Question: Is the sinfulness of it the worst thing in it?

Answer: Yes: For sin by the commandment becomes exceeding sinful, Rom. 7:13.

Question: Is sin worse than affliction?

Answer: Yes: For Moses by faith chose rather to suffer affliction than to enjoy the pleasures of sin, Heb 11:25.

Question: Is it displeasing to God?

Answer: Yes: God is angry with the wicked every day, Ps. 7:11.

Question: Is it destructive to ourselves?

Answer: Yes: Be sure your sin will find you out, Numb 32:23.

Question: Ought we not therefore to take heed of sin?

Answer: Yes: Stand in awe, and sin not, Ps. 4:4.

Question: And of all appearances of it?

Answer: Yes: Abstain from all appearances of evil, 1 Thes. 5:22.

Question: And all approaches towards it?

Answer: Yes: Touch not the unclean thing, 2 Cor. 6:17.

Question: And must we hate it?

Answer: Yes: Ye that love the Lord, hate evil, Ps. 97:10. Must little children take heed of sin? My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not, 1 John. 2:1.

Question: Is it folly to make light of sin?

Answer: Yes: Fools make a mock at sin Prov. 14:9.

Question: Will our observing the law of God be the best preservative against sin?

Answer: Yes: Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee, Ps. 119:11.

Question: Will an eye to God be the best argument against sin?

Answer: Yes: How shall I do this great wickedness, and sin against God, Gen. 39:9.


Question: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the state wherein they were created?

Answer: The sin whereby our first parents fell from the state wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.

Question: Did our first parents eat the forbidden fruit?

Answer: Yes: Thou hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Gen. 3:17.

Question: Was their doing so disobedience?

Answer: Yes: For it was by one man's disobedience that many were made sinners, Rom. 5:19.

Question: Did the woman eat forbidden fruit first?

Answer: Yes: The woman being deceived was in the transgression. 1 Tim 2:14.

Question: Did the serpent tempt her to it?

Answer: Yes: The serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, 2 Cor. 11:3.

Question: Was that serpent the devil?

Answer: Yes: The old serpent is the devil and Satan? Rev. 20:2.

Question: Did he aim to make man as miserable as himself?

Answer: Yes: He was a murderer from the beginning, John 8:44.

Question: Did the tempter teach them to question the command?

Answer: Yes: He said to the woman, Hath God said ye shall not eat? Gen. 3:1.

Question: Did he promise them safety in sin?

Answer: Yes: He said, Ye shall not surely die, Gen. 3:4.

Question: Did he promise them advantage by the sin?

Answer: Yes: In the day ye eat thereof your eyes shall be opened, ver. 5.

Question: Did he feed them with high thoughts of themselves?

Answer: Yes: Ye shall be as gods, ver. 5.

Question: Did he suggest to them hard thoughts of God?

Answer: Yes: For he said, God doth know this, ver. 5.

Question: Did Eve do well to parley with him?

Answer: No: For we should cease to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge, Prov. 19:27.

Question: Did the devil prevail in the temptation?

Answer: Yes: For she took of the fruit, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat, Gen. 3:6.

Question: Was there in this sin the lust of the flesh?

Answer: Yes: For she saw that the tree was good for food.

Question: Was there in it the lust of the eye?

Answer: Yes: For she saw that it was pleasant to the eyes.

Question: And the pride of life?

Answer: Yes: For she saw it was a tree to be desired to make one wise.

Question: Was unbelief of the word of God at the bottom of it?

Answer: Yes: It is the evil heart of unbelief that departs from the living God, Heb. 3:12.

Question: Was there in it an opposition to the divine law?

Answer: Yes: For sin took occasion by the commandment, Rom. 7:8.

Question: Was disobedience in a small matter a great provocation?

Answer: Yes: For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is iniquity and idolatry, 1 Sam. 15:23.

Question: If Adam fell thus, have we any reason to be secure?

Answer: No: Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall, 1 Cor. 10:12.


Question: Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

Answer: 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.

Question: Are we concerned in our first parents' disobedience?

Answer: Yes: For by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, Rom. 5:18.

Question: Were we in their loins when they ate the forbidden fruit?

Answer: Yes: For Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living, Gen. 3:20.

Question: Was Adam a common father?

Answer: Yes: For he was to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, Gen. 1:28.

Question: Was he a public person?

Answer: Yes: For he was the figure of him that was to come, Rom. 5:14.

Question: Was the covenant made with him, and his posterity?

Answer: Yes: For God always established his covenant with men, and with their seed after them, Gen. 9:9.

Question: Was Adam's sin our ruin then?

Answer: Yes: For through the offence of one many are dead, Rom. 5:15.

Question: Was the honour of human nature thereby stained?

Answer: Yes: For Adam begat a son in his own likeness, Gen. 5:8.

Question: Was the power of the human nature thereby weakened?

Answer: Yes: For when we were without strength, Christ died for us, Rom. 5:6.

Question: Was the purity of it thereby corrupted?

Answer: Yes: For in us, that is, in our flesh, there dwells no good thing, Rom. 6:18.

Question: Was Adam himself degenerated?

Answer: Yes: For God said to him, Dust thou art, Gen. 3:19.

Question: And are we in like manner degenerated?

Answer: Yes: For we have all borne the image of the earthy, 1 Cor. 15:49.

Question: Is this degeneracy universal?

Answer: Yes: For all flesh hath corrupted his way, Gen. 6:12.

Question: Did our Lord Jesus descend from Adam by ordinary generation?

Answer: No: For he is the Lord from heaven 1 Cor. 15:47.

Question: Did he then sin in Adam?

Answer: No: For he is undefiled, separate from sinners, Heb. 7:26.

Question: Did all the rest of mankind sin in Adam?

Answer: Yes: For how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Job 25:4.

Question: Are the ways of the Lord herein equal?

Answer: Yes: But our ways are unequal, Ezek. 18:29.


Question: Into what state did the fall bring mankind?

Answer: The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery.

Question: Is mankind in a state of sin?

Answer: Yes: For both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin, Rom. 3:9.

Question: Is a state of sin a sad state?

Answer: Yes: For they that are in the flesh cannot please God, Rom. 8:8.

Question: Did the fall bring us into a state of sin?

Answer: Yes: For by it many were made sinners, Rom. 5:19.

Question: Does the world continue in that state?

Answer: Yes: For the whole world lies in wickedness, 1 John 5:19.

Question: And are you by nature in that state?

Answer: Yes: If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me, Job 9:20.

Question: Is mankind in a state of misery?

Answer: Yes: The misery of man is great upon him, Eccl. 8:6.

Question: Is sin the cause of all that misery?

Answer: Yes: For death entered by sin, and so death passed upon all men, Rom. 5:12.

Question: Is misery the consequence of sin?

Answer: Yes: For evil pursues sinners, Prov. 13:21.

Question: Do all the creatures share in the sad effects of sin?

Answer: Yes: Cursed is the ground for thy sake, Gen. 3:17.

Question: And could all this mischief come from that one sin?

Answer: Yes: For how great a matter does a little fire kindle, James 3:5,6.

Question: Did the fall bring mankind into a state of apostasy from God?

Answer: Yes: For they are all gone aside, Ps. 14:3.

Question: Is that a sinful state?

Answer: Yes: For it is great whoredom, to depart from the Lord, Hos. 1:2.

Question: And is it a miserable state?

Answer: Yes: Woe unto them, for they have fled from me, Hos. 7:13.

Question: Did the fall bring mankind into a state of slavery to Satan?

Answer: Yes: For they are taken captive by him at his will, 2 Tim. 2:26.

Question: Is that a sinful state?

Answer: Yes: For the prince of the power of the air works in the children of disobedience, Eph. 2:2.

Question: Is it a miserable state?

Answer: Yes: For the god of this world hath blinded their minds, 2 Cor. 4:4.

Question: Is it like the condition of the prodigal son?

Answer: Yes: For he went into a far country, wasted his substance, began to be in want, and was sent into the fields to feed swine, Luke 15:13-15.


Question: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?

Answer: The sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell consist 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.

Question: Are we all born under guilt?

Answer: Yes: For all the world is guilty before God, Rom. 3:19.

Question: Does the whole race of mankind stand attainted at God's bar?

Answer: Yes: For the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, Gal. 3:22.

Question: Is this according to God's rule of judgment?

Answer: Yes: For he visiteth the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, Exod. 20:5.

Question: Is not God unrighteous who thus takes vengeance?

Answer: No: God forbid, for then how shall God judge the world, Rom. 3:6.

Question: Are we all born in sin?

Answer: Yes: Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, Ps. 51:5.

Question: Are we of a sinful brood?

Answer: Yes: For we are a seed of evil-doers, Isa. 1:4.

Question: May we be truly called sinners by nature?

Answer: Yes: Thou wast called a transgressor from the womb, Isa. 48:8.

Question: Is there in every one of us by nature the want of original righteousness?

Answer: Yes: There is none righteous, no, not one, Rom. 3:10.

Question: Is there in us an aversion to that which is good?

Answer: Yes: For the carnal mind is enmity against God, Rom. 8:7.

Question: Is there in us a moral impotency to that which is good?

Answer: Yes: For the carnal mind is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can be, Rom. 8:7.

Question: Can we of ourselves do any thing that is good?

Answer: No: For we are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing of ourselves, 2 Cor. 3:5.

Question: Is there in us a proneness to that which is evil?

Answer: Yes: My people are bent to backsliding from me, Hos. 11:7.

Question: Are there the snares of sin in our bodies?

Answer: Yes: For there is a law in the members warring against the law of the mind, Rom. 7:23.

Question: And are there the seeds of sin in our souls?

Answer: Yes: For when I would do good, evil is present with me, Rom. 7:21.

Question: And is the stain of sin upon both?

Answer: Yes: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, Rom. 3:23.

Question: Did we all bring sin into the world with us?

Answer: Yes: For man is born like the wild ass's colt, Job 11:12.

Question: Is it in little children?

Answer: Yes: For foolishness is in the heart of a child, Prov. 22:15.

Question: As reason improves, does sin grow up with it?

Answer: Yes: For when the blade is sprung up, then appear the tares also, Matt. 13:26.

Question: Is it not a wonder of mercy then that we are any of us alive?

Answer: Yes: It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, Lam. 3:22.

Question: Is the whole nature of man corrupted by the fall?

Answer: Yes: The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint, Isa. 1:5.

Question: Is the understanding corrupted?

Answer: Yes: The understanding is darkened, being alienated from the life of God, Eph. 4:18.

Question: Is that unapt to admit the rays of divine light?

Answer: Yes: For they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2:14.

Question: Is the will corrupted?

Answer: Yes: The neck is an iron sinew, Isa. 48:4.

Question: And is that unapt to submit to the rule of the divine law?

Answer: Yes: For what is the Almighty (say they) that we should serve him? Job 21:15.

Question: Are the thoughts corrupted?

Answer: Yes: For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, Gen. 8:21.

Question: Is the fancy full of vanity?

Answer: Yes: Vain thoughts lodge within us, Jer. 4:15.

Question: Are the affections corrupted?

Answer: Yes: It is a carnal mind, Rom. 8:7.

Question: Is conscience itself corrupted?

Answer: Yes: Even the mind and conscience is defiled, Tit. 1:15.

Question: Is the whole soul corrupted?

Answer: Yes: The heart is deceitful above all things, Jer. 17: 9.

Question: Is this corruption of the mind sin?

Answer: Yes: For it is enmity against God, Rom. 8:7.

Question: Have we it from our original?

Answer: Yes: For that which is born of the flesh is flesh, John 3:6.

Question: Do we derive it through our parents?

Answer: Yes: For who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job 14:4.

Question: Does it render us odious to God's holiness?

Answer: Yes: For the foolish shall not stand in his sight, Ps. 5:5.

Question: Does it render us obnoxious to his justice?

Answer: Yes: For death reigns over them that have not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, Rom. 5:14.

Question: Does this original corruption produce actual transgression?

Answer: Yes: For a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, Matt. 7:18.

Question: Does it produce it betimes?

Answer: Yes: For the wicked are estranged from the womb, they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies, Ps. 58:3.

Question: Does it produce it naturally?

Answer: Yes: As a fountain casteth out her waters, Jer. 6:7.

Question: Does all sin begin in the heart?

Answer: Yes: For when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, James 1:15.

Question: Is it not necessary therefore we should have a new nature?

Answer: Yes: Marvel not that I said unto you, Ye must be born again, John 3:7.

Question: Can we get to heaven without it?

Answer: No: For flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, 1 Cor. 15:50.


Question: What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?

Answer: All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.

Question: When our first parents had eaten the forbidden fruit, did they become as gods?

Answer: No: They were like the beasts that perish, Ps. 49:12.

Question: Did the devil make his words good then?

Answer: No: For he is a liar and the father of it, John 8:44.

Question: Did not he put a cheat upon them?

Answer: Yes: The woman said, the serpent beguiled me, Gen. 3:13.

Question: Did shame come in with sin?

Answer: Yes: For they knew that they were naked, Gen. 3:7.

Question: Did fear come in with sin?

Answer: Yes: For they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden, Gen. 3:8.

Question: Was not that their misery?

Answer: Yes: For fear hath torment, 1 John. 4:18.

Question: Did they lose communion with God?

Answer: Yes: For he drove out the man, Gen. 3:24.

Question: Is fallen man unworthy of communion with God?

Answer: Yes: For what communion has light with darkness? 2 Cor. 2:14.

Question: Is he unfit for communion with God?

Answer: Yes: For can two walk together except they be agreed? Amos 3:3.

Question: Could fallen man ever get to heaven by virtue of the covenant of innocency?

Answer: No: For cherubims and a flaming sword were set to keep that way to the tree of life, Gen. 3:24.

Question: Is fallen man under God's wrath?

Answer: Yes: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, Rom. 1:18.

Question: Are we all so by nature?

Answer: Yes: We are by nature children of wrath, even as others, Eph. 2:2.

Question: Are we so by reason of sin?

Answer: Yes: For because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience, Eph. 5:6.

Question: Is there a distance between God and man by reason of sin?

Answer: Yes: Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, Isa. 49:2.

Question: Is there a quarrel between God and man by reason of sin?

Answer: Yes: My soul loathed them, and their soul also it abhorred me, Zech. 11:8.

Question: Is it not said to lie under God's wrath?

Answer: Yes: For who knows the power of his anger? Ps. 90:11.

Question: Is fallen man under God's curse?

Answer: Yes: For cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them, Gal. 3:10.

Question: Is this curse in force against all wicked people?

Answer: Yes: The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, Prov. 3:33.

Question: Has sin brought a curse upon the world?

Answer: Yes: Cursed is the ground for thy sake, Gen. 3:17.

Question: Is mankind by the fall become liable to the miseries of this life?

Answer: Yes: In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life, Gen 3:17.

Question: Are we all by nature liable to these miseries?

Answer: Yes: For man is born to trouble, Job 5:7.

Question: Is all the hurtfulness of the creatures the effect of sin?

Answer: Yes: Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth, Gen. 3:18.

Question: Is the toil of business the effect of sin?

Answer: Yes: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ver. 19.

Question: Is pain and sickness the effect of sin?

Answer: Yes: There is not any rest in my bones, because of my sin, Ps. 38:3.

Question: Are all our crosses the effect of sin?

Answer: Yes: Our sins have withholden good things from us, Jer. 5:25.

Question: Should we not therefore bear them patiently?

Answer: Yes: Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sin? Lam. 3:39.

Question: Is all mankind by the fall become liable to death itself?

Answer: Yes: For so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned, Rom. 5:12.

Question: Was a sentence of death immediately passed upon fallen man?

Answer: Yes: Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return, Gen. 3:19.

Question: Do we all deserve death?

Answer: Yes: The wages of sin is death, Rom. 6:23.

Question: Is it the natural consequence of sin?

Answer: Yes: For sin, when it is finished, brings forth death, Jam. 1:15.

Question: Can any avoid it?

Answer: No: What man is he that liveth and shall not see death? Ps. 89:48.

Question: Is it determined?

Answer: Yes: It is appointed to men once to die, Heb. 9:27.

Question: Do you expect it?

Answer: Yes: I know that thou wilt bring me to death, Job 30:23.

Question: Is sin the sting of death?

Answer: Yes: The sting of death is sin, 1 Cor. 15:56.

Question: Is the amazing fear of death the effect of sin?

Answer: Yes: There are those who through fear of death are all their life-time subject to bondage, Heb. 2:15.

Question: Is the body's rotting in the grave the effect of sin?

Answer: Yes: As drought and heat consume the snow-waters, so doth the grave those which have sinned, Job 24:19.

Question: Is mankind by the fall become liable to the pains of hell for ever?

Answer: Yes: For he that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead, Prov. 21:16. Ps. 9:17.

Question: Can God make a soul forever miserable?

Answer: Yes: For after he hath killed he hath power to cast into hell, Luke 12:5.

Question: Is there a state of punishment in the other life?

Answer: Yes: For we are warned to flee from the wrath to come, Matt. 3:7.

Question: Is it the desert of sin?

Answer: Yes: For when God renders to every man according to his works, he will render indignation with wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, Rom. 2:8, 9.

Question: Will it be the portion of impenitent sinners?

Answer: Yes: Ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell, Matt. 23:33.

Question: Is hell the wrath of an everlasting God?

Answer: Yes: For the breath of the Lord. like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it, Isa. 30:33.

Question: Is it the anguish of an immortal soul?

Answer: Yes: For their worm dieth not, Mark 9:44.

Question: Is any way of relief open to them?

Answer: No: Betwixt us and you there is a gulf fixed, Luke 16:26.

Question: Is their punishment therefore everlasting?

Answer: Yes: These shall go away into everlasting punishment, Matt. 25:46.

Question: Should we not every one of us dread it?

Answer: Yes: For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, Heb. 10:31. Isa. 33:14.


Question: Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?

Answer: God having out of his mere good pleasure from all eternity elected some to eternal life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of a state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.

Question: Might not God justly have left all mankind to perish in their fallen state?

Answer: Yes: For in his sight shall no man living be justified, Ps. 143:2.

Question: Would God have been a loser by it, if they had been left to perish?

Answer: No: For, can a man be profitable to God? Job 22:2.

Question: But did he leave them to perish?

Answer: No: For the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appears, Tit. 3:4.

Question: Was the case of fallen angels helpless and desperate?

Answer: Yes: For God spared not them, 2 Pet. 2:4.

Question: But is the case of fallen man so?

Answer: No: For he is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, 2 Pet. 3:9.

Question: Is God's patience a token for good?

Answer: Yes: The long suffering of our Lord is salvation, 2 Pet. 3:15.

Question: Does it appear that God has a good will to man's salvation?

Answer: Yes: As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that he turn and live, Ezek. 33:11.

Question: Is this an encouragement to us all to hope in his mercy?

Answer: Yes: For if the Lord had been pleased to kill us, he would not have showed us such things as these, Judg. 13:23.

Question: Could man help himself out of his state of sin and misery?

Answer: No: For while we were without strength, Christ died for the ungodly, Rom. 5:6.

Question: Could any creature help us?

Answer: No: For none of them can by any means redeem his brother, Ps. 49:7.

Question: Could God himself only help us?

Answer: Yes: 0 Israel thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help, Hos. 13:9.

Question: Did God contrive a way for man's recovery?

Answer: Yes: He hath devised means that his banished may not be expelled from him, 2 Sam. 14:14.

Question: Was it the contrivance of infinite wisdom?

Answer: Yes: It is the wisdom of God in a mystery, ordained before the world for our glory, 1 Cor. 2:7.

Question: Has he provided a way for our recovery?

Answer: Yes: I have found a ransom, Job 33:24.

Question: Did God particularly design the salvation of a remnant of mankind?

Answer: Yes: There is a remnant according to the election of grace, Rom. 11:5.

Question: Are there some whom God has chosen?

Answer: Yes: God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, 2 Thes. 2:13.

Question: Is there a certain number of such?

Answer: Yes: For their names are in the book of life, Phil. 4:3. Rev. 13:8.

Question: Were they chosen from eternity?

Answer: Yes: He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, Eph. 1:4.

Question: Were they chosen for the sake of any thing in themselves?

Answer: No: Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, John 15:16.

Question: But of his mere good pleasure?

Answer: Yes: He hath predestinated us according to the good pleasure of his will, Eph. 1:5.

Question: Were they chosen to salvation, as the end?

Answer: Yes: God had appointed us to obtain salvation, 1 Thess. 5:9.

Question: And to sanctification as the means?

Answer: Yes: He has chosen us that we should be holy, Eph. 1:4.

Question: Was it for the glory of God?

Answer: Yes: That he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, Rom. 9:23.

Question: Shall the election obtain?

Answer: Yes: The purpose of God according to election shall stand, Rom. 9:11.

Question: Does our salvation begin there?

Answer: Yes: We love him, because he first loved us, 1 John 4:19.

Question: Are others passed by?

Answer: Yes: When the election hath obtained, the rest are blinded, Rom. 11:7.

Question: Does God know certainly whom he has chosen?

Answer: Yes: The Lord knows them that are his, 2 Tim. 2:19.

Question: Do we know it?

Answer: No: For secret things belong not to us, Deut. 29:29.

Question: Can we know our own election otherwise than by our being sanctified?

Answer: No: We must make our calling, and so make our election, sure, 2 Pet. 1:10.

Question: Were the elect given to Christ?

Answer: Yes: Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, John 17:6.

Question: Did he undertake their salvation?

Answer: Yes: For this is the Father's will, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, John 6:39.

Question: Was it promised him that he should effect it?

Answer: Yes: He shall see his seed, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand, Isa. 53:10.

Question: And was he himself assured of it?

Answer: Yes: All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me, John 6:37.

Question: And does it always prove so?

Answer: Yes: As many as were ordained to eternal life believed, Acts 13:48.

Question: And shall any of them miscarry?

Answer: No: For it is said of seducers, they shall deceive, if it were possible, the very elect, Matt. 24:24.

Question: Has God entered into a new covenant, pursuant hereto?

Answer: Yes: For we are not under the law, but under grace, Rom. 6:14.

Question: Does he insist upon the terms of the first covenant?

Answer: No: He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Ps. 103:10.

Question: Is he willing to deal with us upon new terms?

Answer: Yes: I will make a new covenant with them, Jer. 31:31.

Question: Is he willing to be ours in covenant?

Answer: Yes: I will be to them a God, Heb. 8:10.

Question: Will he accept us as his?

Answer: Yes: They shall be to me a people.

Question: And will he be at peace with us?

Answer: Yes: God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, 2 Cor. 5:19.

Question: Is this wrought out by a Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: For there is not salvation in any other, Acts 4:12.

Question: Was that Redeemer of God's own providing?

Answer: Yes: God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, John 3:16.

Question: Is the new covenant made with us in Christ?

Answer: Yes: For he is the Mediator of the better covenant, Heb. 8:6.

Question: Is it a covenant much for our advantage?

Answer: Yes: For it is well ordered in all things and sure, 2 Sam. 23:5.

Question: Is perfect obedience the condition of it?

Answer: No: For if by grace, then it is no more of works, Rom. 11:6.

Question: Is faith the condition of it?

Answer: Yes: For, by grace ye are saved through faith, Eph. 2:8.

Question: Is sincerity accepted as our gospel perfection?

Answer: Yes: Walk before me, and be thou perfect, Gen. 17:1.

Question: Is that which is required in the covenant promised in the covenant?

Answer: Yes: I will cause you to walk in my statutes, Ezek. 36:27.

Question: Does every transgression in the covenant cast us out of the covenant?

Answer: No: I will visit their transgression with a rod, but my lovingkindness will I not utterly take away, Ps. 89:32, 33.

Question: Will this covenant deliver us out of a state of sin and misery?

Answer: Yes: Whosoever believes in Christ shall not perish John 3:16.

Question: Will it bring us into a state of salvation?

Answer: Yes: He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, John 3:36.

Question: And can we desire any more?

Answer: No: It is all my salvation, and all my desire, 2 Sam. 23:5.

Question: Was there intimation given to Adam of this way of salvation by a Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: For it was said to him, That the seed of the woman should break the serpent's head, Gen. 3:15.

Question: Was it made known to the Old Testament saints?

Answer: Yes: For of this salvation have the prophets inquired, and searched diligently, 1 Pet. 1:10.

Question: But is it brought to a clearer light in the New Testament?

Answer: Yes: Go preach the gospel to every creature; he that believes shall be saved, and he that believes not shall be damned, Mark 16:15, 16.

Question: Is this good news to fallen man?

Answer: Yes: Glory be to God in the highest, on earth peace, good-will towards men, Luke 11:14.

Question: Does this covenant exclude any that do not exclude themselves?

Answer: No: Whosoever will, let him come, and take of the water of life freely, Rev. 22:17.


Question: Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?

Answer: The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man; and so was, and continues to be, God and Man, in two distinct natures, and one person, for ever.

Question: Did mankind need a Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: For by our iniquities we had sold ourselves, Isa. 1:1.

Question: Did the elect themselves need a Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: For we ourselves also were sometimes disobedient, Tit. 3:3.

Question: Would there have been a Redeemer if Adam had not sinned?

Answer: No: For they that be whole need not a physician, Matt. 9:12.

Question: Could an angel have been our Redeemer?

Answer: No: For his angels he charged with folly, Job 4:18.

Question: Is Jesus Christ the Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: There is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Tim. 2:5.

Question: Is he the only Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: For there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, Acts 4:12.

Question: Is he a universal Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: He gave himself a ransom for all, 1 Tim. 2:6.

Question: Did he die to purchase a general offer?

Answer: Yes: The Son of Man was lifted up, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, John 3:14, 15.

Question: Is all the world the better for Christ's mediation?

Answer: Yes: For by him all things consist Col. 1:17.

Question: Is it long of Christ then that so many perish?

Answer: No: I would have gathered you, and you would not, Matt. 23:37.

Question: Is Christ in a special manner the Redeemer of God's elect?

Answer: Yes: I lay down my life for the sheep, John 10:15.

Question: Was their salvation particularly designed in Christ's undertaking?

Answer: Yes: Thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him, John 17:2.

Question: Was their sanctification particularly designed?

Answer: Yes: For their sakes I sanctify myself; that they also might be sanctified, John 17:19.

Question: Is all mankind redeemed from among devils?

Answer: Yes: For none must say as they did, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God, Matt. 8:2, 9.

Question: But are the elect redeemed from among men?

Answer: Yes: These were redeemed from among men, Rev. 14:4.

Question: Is the Redeemer LORD?

Answer: Yes: Every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, Phil. 2:11.

Question: Is he Jesus a Saviour?

Answer: Yes: Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins, Matt. 1:21.

Question: Is he Christ anointed?

Answer: Yes: For God, even thy God, hath anointed thee, Heb. 1:9.

Question: Is he Emmanuel?

Answer: Yes: They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is, God with us, Matt. 1:28.

Question: Is he the Son of God?

Answer: Yes: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God, Matt. 16:16.

Question: Is he the Eternal Son of God?

Answer: Yes: For he is before all things, Col. 1:17.

Question: Is he God?

Answer: Yes: Unto the Son he says, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, Heb. 1:8.

Question: Is he true God?

Answer: Yes: His Son Jesus Christ is the true God, and eternal life, 1 John 5:20.

Question: Is he the most high God?

Answer: Yes: For Christ is over all, God, blessed for ever, Rom. 9:5.

Question: Is he equal with the Father?

Answer: Yes: For he thought it not robbery to be equal with God, Phil. 2:6.

Question: Is he one with the Father?

Answer: Yes: I and my Father are one, John 10:30.

Question: Is he to be worshipped as God?

Answer: Yes: For all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father, John 5:28.

Question: Is he worshipped by the angels?

Answer: Yes: Let all the angels of God worship him, Heb. 1:6.

Question: And is there good reason for it?

Answer: Yes: For he is the brightness of his Father's glory, Heb. 1:3.

Question: Was he begotten of his Father before all worlds?

Answer: Yes: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, Ps. 2:7.

Question: Is he the only-begotten Son of God?

Answer: Yes: We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, John 1:14.

Question: Did the Son of God become man?

Answer: Yes: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, John 1:14.

Question: Did he come into this world?

Answer: Yes: He came forth from the Father, and came into the world, John 16:28.

Question: Did he come in the fittest time?

Answer: Yes: When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, Gal. 4:4.

Question: Did he come with a full commission?

Answer: Yes: For the Father sanctified him, and sent him into the world, John 10:36.

Question: Did he come to save us?

Answer: Yes: The son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost, Luke 19:10.

Question: Did he come to conquer Satan?

Answer: Yes: For this purpose was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil, 1 John 3:8.

Question: Did the Redeemer take our nature upon him?

Answer: Yes: He was found in fashion as a man, Phil. 2:8.

Question: Had he a being before his incarnation?

Answer: Yes: Before Abraham was, I am, John 8:58.

Question: Had he a being before the world?

Answer: Yes: For the same was in the beginning with God, John 1:2.

Question: Is not his incarnation a great mystery?

Answer: Yes: Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3:16.

Question: Is it necessary that we believe it?

Answer: Yes: For he that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God, 1 John 4:3.

Question: Was Jesus Christ God even when he was upon earth?

Answer: Yes: I am in the Father, and the Father in me, John 14:11.

Question: Is he man now he is in heaven?

Answer: Yes: For he that descended is the same also that ascended, Eph. 4:10.

Question: Is the Redeemer both God and man?

Answer: Yes: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and he shall be called the mighty God, the everlasting Father, Isa. 9:6.

Question: Is he both the Son of God, and the Son of man?

Answer: Yes: He was the Son of Adam, he was the Son of God, Luke 3:38.

Question: Does he continue to be so?

Answer: Yes: For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day and for ever, Heb. 13:8.

Question: Was he man that he might suffer?

Answer: Yes: For without shedding of blood is no remission, Heb. 9:22.

Question: Was he God that he might satisfy?

Answer: Yes: For God has purchased the church with his own blood, Acts 20:28.

Question: Is he God and man in two distinct natures?

Answer: Yes: For he is both the root and offspring of David, Rev. 22:16. compare Matt. 22:45.

Question: Is he so in one person?

Answer: Yes: For to us there is but one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him, 1 Cor. 8:6.

Question: Is he so for ever?

Answer: Yes: He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last, Rev. 22:13.

Question: Is this Jesus the true Messiah promised to the fathers?

Answer: Yes: We know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world, John 4:42.

Question: Were the Scriptures fulfilled in him?

Answer: Yes: To him give all the prophets witness, Acts 10:43.

Question: Did his miracles prove his doctrine?

Answer: Yes: The works that I do bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me, John 5:36.

Question: Did the Father himself bear witness of him?

Answer: Yes: By a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him, Matt. 17:5.

Question: May we venture our souls upon this foundation?

Answer: Yes: For this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son, 1 John 5:11.


Question: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

Answer: 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.

Question: Did Christ the Son of God become man?

Answer: Yes: Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, Heb. 2:14.

Question: Was it requisite he should become man?

Answer: Yes: For in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, Heb. 2: 17.

Question: Has the Son of man the fulness of the Godhead?

Answer: Yes: For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, Col. 2: 9.

Question: Has the Son of God the tenderness of a man?

Answer: Yes: For he was touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Heb. 4:15.

Question: Did Christ take unto himself a true body?

Answer: Yes: A body hast thou prepared me, Heb. 10:5.

Question: Was it a body like unto ours?

Answer: Yes: For he was in the likeness of sinful flesh, Rom. 8:3.

Question: Did he take to himself a human soul?

Answer: Yes: For he said, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, Matt. 26:38.

Question: Was he conceived by ordinary generation?

Answer: No: For he said, Ye are beneath, I am from above, John 8:23.

Question: Was he conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost?

Answer: Yes: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, Luke 1:35.

Question: Was he born of the Virgin Mary?

Answer: Yes: The Scripture was fulfilled, Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, Matt. 1:23.

Question: Was his conception and birth supernatural?

Answer: Yes: That which was conceived in the Virgin Mary was of the Holy Ghost, Matt. 1:20.

Question: Yet was he really and truly man?

Answer: Yes: For he is not ashamed to call us brethren, Heb. 2:11.

Question: Was Christ the seed of the woman?

Answer: Yes: For he was made of a woman, Gal 4:4.

Question: Was the Scripture therein fulfilled?

Answer: Yes: For the seed of the woman must break the serpent's head, Gen. 3:15.

Question: Was he the Son of Abraham?

Answer: Yes: For he took on him the seed of Abraham, Heb. 2:16.

Question: Was the Scripture therein fulfilled?

Answer: Yes: For it was said to Abraham, In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, Gen. 12:2.

Question: Was he the Son of David?

Answer: Yes: Hosanna to the Son of David, Matt. 21:9.

Question: Was the Scripture therein fulfilled?

Answer: Yes: He hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spake by the mouth of all his holy prophets, Luke 1:69,70.

Question: Was Christ born in Bethlehem?

Answer: Yes: To you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, Luke 2:11.

Question: Was he born among the Jews?

Answer: Yes: Of them as concerning the flesh, Christ came, Rom. 9:5.

Question: And was it the honour of that nation?

Answer: Yes: He was the glory of his people Israel, Luke 2:32.

Question: Did he come when the Messiah was expected?

Answer: Yes: They then looked for redemption in Jerusalem, Luke 2:38.

Question: Did he come when the sceptre was departed from Judah?

Answer: Yes: For then there went out a decree that all the world should be taxed, Luke 2:1.

Question: Did the angels attend him at his birth?

Answer: Yes: There was a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, Luke 2:13.

Question: Was the Redeemer born in sin as we are?

Answer: No: He was without sin, Heb. 4:15.

Question: Was he perfectly pure and holy?

Answer: Yes: That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God, Luke 1:35.

Question: Was he pure aud holy in his whole life?

Answer: Yes: He did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, 1 Pet. 2:22.

Question: Was it requisite he should be so?

Answer: Yes: Such a High Priest became us, that was holy, harmless, and undefiled, Heb. 7:26.

Question: Could he have satisfied for our sin, if he had had any sin of his own?

Answer: No: For he must through the eternal Spirit offer himself without spot, Heb. 9:14.

Question: Was he subject to the sinless infirmities of our natures?

Answer: Yes: He was in all points tempted like as we are, Heb. 4:15.

Question: Was he hungry?

Answer: Yes: When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards an hungered, Matt. 4:2.

Question: Was he weary?

Answer: Yes: Being weary with his journey, he sat on the well, John 4:6.

Question: Did he sleep?

Answer: Yes: When the ship was covered with waves he was asleep, Matt. 8:24.

Question: Did he pass through the ages of human life?

Answer: Yes: For Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, Luke 2:52.

Question: Was the Redeemer willing to be incarnate for us?

Answer: Yes: For when he cometh into the world, he saith, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, Heb. 10:5, 7.

Question: Is it well for us that he was so?

Answer: Yes: For by this will we are sanctified, Heb. 10:10.

Question: Was Christ's incarnation great condescension in him?

Answer: Yes: For hereby he was made a little lower than the angels, Heb. 2:9.

Question: Was it a great honour to our nature?

Answer: Yes: What is man that thou art thus mindful of him? Heb. 2:6-8.

Question: Is it good news to mankind?

Answer: Yes: This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, 1 Tim. 1:15.


Question: What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?

Answer: Christ as our Redeemer executes the offices of a Prophet, of a Priest, and of a King, both in his state of humiliation and exaltation.

Question: Is Christ a complete Redeemer?

Answer: Yes: For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell, Col. 1:19.

Question: Is he completely qualified for the undertaking?

Answer: Yes: For God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him, John 3:34.

Question: Is he authorized for it?

Answer: Yes: For all things are delivered to him of the Father, Matt. 11:27.

Question: Has he a full commission?

Answer: Yes: For the Father judgeth no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son, John 5:22.

Question: And has he an ability equal to his authority?

Answer: Yes: For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself, ver. 26.

Question: Is there all that in Christ which fallen man stands in need of?

Answer: Yes: For Christ is all, and in all, Col. 3:11.

Question: Is he light?

Answer: Yes: I am the light of the world, John 8:12.

Question: Is he life?

Answer: Yes: In him was life, and the life was the light of men, John 1:4.

Question: Is he our peace?

Answer: Yes: He is our peace, Eph. 2:14.

Question: Is he our head?

Answer: Yes: He is the head of the body, the church, Col. 1:18.

Question: Is he the door?

Answer: Yes: I am the door of the sheep, John 10:7.

Question: Is he the way?

Answer: Yes: I am the way, the truth, and the life, John 14:6.

Question: Can we come to God as a Father, otherwise than by Jesus Christ as Mediator?

Answer: No: For no man cometh to the Father but by me, John 14:6.

Question: Is he our food?

Answer: Yes: I am that bread of life, John 6:48.

Question: Is he our friend?

Answer: Yes: This is my beloved, and this is my friend, Cant. 5:16.

Question: Is Jesus Christ a Redeemer in office?

Answer: Yes: For God hath exalted him with his own right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, Acts 5:31.

Question: Is he duly put in office?

Answer: Yes: For him hath God the Father sealed, John 6:27.

Question: Does he duly execute his office?

Answer: Yes: For he was faithful to him that appointed him, Heb. 3:2.

Question: Is he a Prophet?

Answer: Yes: This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world, John 6:14.

Question: Is he a Priest?

Answer: Yes: He is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Heb. 3:1.

Question: Is he a King?

Answer: Yes: He is King of kings, and Lord of lords, Rev. 19:16.

Question: Did Christ execute these offices in his state of humiliation?

Answer: Yes: I have glorified thee on the earth, John 17:4.

Question: Does he execute them in his state of exaltation?

Answer: Yes: For in heaven itself he now appears in the presence of God for us, Heb. 9:24.

Question: Is he then an all-sufficient Saviour?

Answer: Yes: He is able to save to the uttermost all those that come to God by him, Heb. 7:25.

Question: And is he as willing to save as he is able?

Answer: Yes: Whosoever comes unto me I will in no wise cast out, John 6:37.


Question: How does Christ execute the office of a Prophet?

Answer: Christ executes the office of a Prophet, in revealing to us by his Word and Spirit the will of God for our salvation.

Question: Does Christ execute the office of a Prophet?

Answer: Yes: We know that thou art a Teacher come from God, John 3:2.

Question: Does God speak to us by him?

Answer: Yes: He hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, Heb. 1:2.

Question: Were there prophets under the Old Testament?

Answer: Yes: God sent his servants the prophets, Jer. 25:4.

Question: But was Christ above them all?

Answer: Yes: For he is the Lord God of the holy prophets, Rev. 22:6. compare Col. 1:11.

Question: And were they his agents?

Answer: Yes: It was the Spirit of Christ in them that testified, 1 Pet. 1:11.

Question: Was Moses the great type of Christ as a prophet?

Answer: Yes: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me, Acts 3:22.

Question: But was Christ greater than Moses?

Answer: Yes: For Moses was faithful as a servant, but Christ as a Son, Heb. 3:5,6.

Question: And is the doctrine of Christ better than that of Moses?

Answer: Yes: For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, John 1:17.

Question: Was Christ completely qualified to be a Prophet?

Answer: Yes: For in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, Col. 2:3.

Question: Was ever any other so well qualified?

Answer: No: For no man knows the Father, but the Son, Matt. 11: 27.

Question: Has Christ, as a Prophet, revealed God's will to us?

Answer: Yes: For he said, my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me, John 7:16. and 12:49, 50.

Question: Has he revealed God's will concerning our duty?

Answer: Yes: For he did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil, Matt. 5:17.

Question: And concerning our happiness?

Answer: Yes: For he was anointed to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, Luke 4:18.

Question: Did Christ execute this office when he was on earth?

Answer: Yes: For he taught them as one having authority, Matt. 7:29.

Question: Did he introduce his doctrine with Thus saith the Lord, like the Old Testament prophets?

Answer: No: But Verily, Verily, I say unto you, John 3:3.

Question: Did he confirm his doctrine by miracles?

Answer: Yes: Believe me (said he) for the very works' sake, John 14:11.

Question: Were his miracles many?

Answer: Yes: Many signs did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, John 20:30.

Question: Were they profitable?

Answer: Yes: He went about doing good, Acts 10:38.

Question: Did Christ teach by the example of his life?

Answer: Yes: That we might follow his steps, 1 Pet. 2:21.

Question: Does he still execute this office?

Answer: Yes: For he said, I have declared thy name unto them, and will declare it. John 17:26.

Question: Does he reveal God's will to us by his word?

Answer: Yes: For these things are written that we may believe. John 20:31.

Question: And by his Spirit?

Answer: Yes: The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost: he shall teach you all things, John 14:26.

Question: Does Jesus Christ teach his people?

Answer: Yes: All thy children shall be taught of the Lord, Isa. 54:13.

Question: And does he teach effectually?

Answer: Yes: For the Son of man is come, and hath given us an understanding, 1 John 5:20.

Question: And does he teach compassionately?

Answer: Yes: For he can have compassion on the ignorant, Heb. 5:2.

Question: Must we learn of this Teacher?

Answer: Yes: Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, Matt. 11:29.

Question: Are we to receive his doctrine?

Answer: Yes: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, Col. 3:16.

Question: And must we abide in it?

Answer: Yes: If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed, John 8:31.


Question: How does Christ execute the office of a Priest?

Answer: Christ executes 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.

Question: Did fallen man need a Priest?

Answer: Yes: For every high priest is ordained for man in things pertaining to God, Heb. 5:1.

Question: Did Christ execute the office of a Priest?

Answer: Yes: We have a great High Priest, Jesus the Son of God, Heb. 4:14.

Question: Was he appointed to this office?

Answer: Yes: For Christ glorified not himself to be made a High Priest, Heb. 5:5.

Question: Was he confirmed in this office?

Answer: Yes: For the Lord swore, and will not repent, thou art a Priest for ever, Heb. 7:21.

Question: Did Christ as a Priest, make atonement for sin?

Answer: Yes: He is a merciful and faithful High Priest, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people, Heb. 2:17.

Question: Did he do this by the sacrifice of himself?

Answer: Yes: He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, Heb. 9:26.

Question: Was he himself the Priest?

Answer: Yes: For through the eternal Spirit he offered himself, Heb. 9:14.

Question: Was he himself the sacrifice?

Answer: Yes: He made his soul an offering for sin, Isa. 53:10.

Question: Was he himself the altar?

Answer: Yes: For we have an altar, Heb. 13:10.

Question: Would not the legal sacrifices serve?

Answer: No: For it was not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin, Heb. 10:4.

Question: Did God declare them insufficient?

Answer: Yes: Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, ver. 5.

Question: Was this sacrifice necessary then?

Answer: Yes: What the law could not do, in that it was weak, that Christ did, Rom. 8:3.

Question: Did Christ as a sacrifice, bear our sins?

Answer: Yes: His own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, 1 Pet. 2:24.

Question: Did he bear them by the Father's appointment?

Answer: Yes: The Lord laid on him the iniquities of us all, Isa. 53:6.

Question: Did he suffer for them?

Answer: Yes: He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities, ver. 5.

Question: And not for any sin of his own?

Answer: No: Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself, Dan. 9:26.

Question: Did he suffer to satisfy for sin?

Answer: Yes: He was once offered to bear the sins of many, Heb. 9:28.

Question: And was the satisfaction accepted?

Answer: Yes: He gave himself for us a sacrifice to God of a sweet smelling savour, Eph. 5:2.

Question: Did Christ offer himself voluntarily?

Answer: Yes: No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself, John 10:18.

Question: Was it his own act and deed to make his soul an offering?

Answer: Yes: For he said, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit, Luke 23:46.

Question: Did this sacrifice need to be repeated?

Answer: No: For by one offering he perfected for ever them that are sanctified, Heb. 10:14.

Question: Did Christ do this for the purchase of our pardon?

Answer: Yes: For when he did it, he said, Father forgive them, Luke 23:34.

Question: Was it designed to save us from ruin?

Answer: Yes: He gave his life a ransom for many, Matt. 20:28.

Question: And to reconcile us to God?

Answer: Yes: For he made peace through the blood of his cross, Col. 1:20.

Question: Is this our plea for peace and pardon?

Answer: Yes: Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, Rom. 8:34.

Question: Is Christ then the great propitiation?

Answer: Yes: He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2.

Question: And have we hereby access to God?

Answer: Yes: He suffered the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, 1 Pet. 3:18.

Question: And had the Old Testament saints the benefit of this sacrifice?

Answer: Yes: For he was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Rev. 13:8.

Question: Does Christ, as a Priest, make intercession?

Answer: Yes: For he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors, Isa. 53:12.

Question: Is he always doing this?

Answer: Yes: He ever lives, making intercession, Heb. 7:25.

Question: Does he do this as an Advocate?

Answer: Yes: If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous, 1 John 2:1.

Question: And as a High Priest?

Answer: Yes: Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord, Exod. 28:12.

Question: Does he make intercession in the virtue of his satisfaction?

Answer: Yes: For by his own blood he entered into the holy place, Heb. 9:12.

Question: Is Christ a Priest after the order of Aaron?

Answer: No: But after the order of Melchisedec, Ps. 110:4.

Question: Is he a royal Priest?

Answer: Yes: For he is a Priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both, Zech. 6:13.

Question: Is he a Priest that needs a successor?

Answer: No: For this man, because he continueth forever, hath an unchangeable priesthood, Heb. 7:24.

Question: Is he a priest that needs a sacrifice for himself?

Answer: No: For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore, Heb. 7:28.

Question: Have all believers an interest in Christ's priesthood?

Answer: Yes: For we have a High Priest over the house of God, Heb. 10:21.

Question: Is this an encouragement in our approaches to God?

Answer: Yes: Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, Heb. 4:16.

Question: And is this it we must depend upon for our acceptance with God?

Answer: Yes: For spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God only through Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. 2:5.


Question: How does Christ execute the office of a King?

Answer: Christ executes the office of a King, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.

Question: Is Christ put into the office of a King?

Answer: Yes: I have set my King upon my holy hill of Sion, Ps. 2:6.

Question: Does he execute that office?

Answer: Yes: He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, Luke 1:33.

Question: Is he King as Mediator?

Answer: Yes: He hath authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man, John 5:27.

Question: Is his kingdom a spiritual kingdom?

Answer: Yes: My kingdom is not of this world, John 18:36.

Question: Is Christ universal monarch?

Answer: Yes: For all power is given to him both in heaven and on earth, Matt. 28:18.

Question: Has he a right to rule all?

Answer: Yes: He is Lord of all, Acts 10:36.

Question: Does he rule all?

Answer: Yes: He is the governor among the nations, Ps. 22:28.

Question: Does he rule all for the good of his church?

Answer: Yes: He is head over all things to the church, Eph. 1:22.

Question: Is he in a special manner the church's King?

Answer: Yes: 0 daughter of Sion, thy King comes, Zech. 9:9.

Question: Does Christ, as a King, subdue his people to himself?

Answer: Yes: Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, Ps. 110:3.

Question: Does he do it by the word of his grace?

Answer: Yes: He draws with the cords of a man, and with the bands of love, Hos. 11:4.

Question: Does he do it effectually?

Answer: Yes: He makes ready a people prepared for the Lord, Luke 1:17.

Question: Does he conquer the opposition of the carnal mind?

Answer: Yes: For the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, 2 Cor. 10:4.

Question: Does he set up his throne in the soul?

Answer: Yes: Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor. 10:5.

Question: And does he rule there?

Answer: Yes: For he writes his law in their hearts, Heb. 8:10.

Question: Does Christ, as a King, reign in his church?

Answer: Yes: The Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King, Isa 33:22.

Question: Does he enact laws?

Answer: Yes: He gave commandments to his apostles, Acts 1:2.

Question: Does he commission officers?

Answer: Yes: By me kings reign, Prov. 8:15.

Question: Does he give judgment?

Answer: Yes: We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, 2 Cor 5:10.

Question: Is homage and allegiance due to him?

Answer: Yes: For at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, Phil. 2:10.

Question: Does he rule in righteousness?

Answer: Yes; The sceptre of his kingdom is a right sceptre, Ps. 45:6.

Question: Does Christ, as a King, protect his subjects?

Answer: Yes: For he shall be as a hiding place from the wind, Isa 32:2.

Question: And does he secure the peace of his kingdom?

Answer: Yes: For this man shall be the peace, Mic. 5:5.

Question: Has he authority to pardon sin?

Answer: Yes: The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sin, Matt. 9:6.

Question: Has he authority to reward services?

Answer: Yes: I will give thee a crown of life, Rev. 2:10.

Question: Does Christ, as King, restrain his enemies?

Answer: Yes: On this Rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, Matt. 16:18.

Question: Will he conquer them at last?

Answer: Yes: For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet, 1 Cor 15:25.

Question: Will he conquer death itself?

Answer: Yes: The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, 1 Cor 15:26.

Question: Does he count those his enemies that will not have him to reign over them?

Answer: Yes: Those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me, Luke 19:27.

Question: Is Christ a merciful King?

Answer: Yes: He is meek, and having salvation, Zech. 9:9.

Question: Is he the poor man's King?

Answer: Yes: He shall deliver the needy when he cries, Ps. 72:12.

Question: Has he a large kingdom?

Answer: Yes: He shall have dominion from sea to sea, Ps. 72:8.

Question: Have we reason to hope it shall be larger than now it is?

Answer: Yes: For the kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ, Rev. 11:15.

Question: Shall it be a lasting kingdom?

Answer: Yes: His throne shall be as the days of heaven, Ps. 89:29.

Question: And when the mystery of God shall be finished, shall the kingdom of the Redeemer be resigned to the creator?

Answer: Yes: Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the father, 1 Cor 15:24.

Question: Ought we to rejoice in Christ's dominion?

Answer: Yes: Let the children of Sion be joyful in their King, Ps. 149:2.

Question: Must we accept him for our King?

Answer: Yes: Take my yoke upon you, Matt. 11:29.

Question: Must we pay tribute to him?

Answer: Yes: Send ye the Lamb to the ruler of the land, Isa. 16:1.

Question: Must we obey him?

Answer: Yes: For he is the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him, Heb. 5:9.