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1. What is thy only comfort in Life and Death?
2. How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou in...
3. Whence knowest thou thy misery?
4. What doth the Law of God require of us?
5. Art thou able to keep all these things perfectly?
6. Did God then make man so wicked and perverse?
7. Whence then ariseth the wickedness of Mans nature?
8. Are we so corrupt that we are not at all apt to do well, and...
9. Doth not God then Injury to Man who in the Law requireth tha...
10. Doth God leave this stubbornness and falling away of Man unp...
11. Is not God therefore merciful?
12. Seeing then by the just Judgment of God we are subject both...
13. Are we able to satisfy by our selves?
14. Is there any creature in Heaven or in Earth, which is only a...
15. What manner of Mediatour then, and Deliverer must we seek fo...
16. Wherefore is it necessary that he be very Man, and that perf...
17. Why must he also be very God?
18. And who is that Mediatour which is together both very God, a...
19. Whence knowest thou this?
20. Is then Salvation restored by Christ to all men who perished...
21. What is Faith?
22. What are those things which are necessary for a Christian ma...
23. Into how many parts is this Creed divided?
24. Seing there is but one only substance of God, why namest tho...
25. What believest thou when thou sayest, I believe in God the F...
26. What is the Providence of God?
27. What doth this knowledg of the Creation and Providence of Go...
28. Why is the Son of God called Jesus, that is, a Saviour?
29. Do they then believe in the only Saviour Jesus, who seek for...
30. Why is he called Christ, that is, anointed?
31. But why art thou called a Christian?
32. For what cause is Christ called the only begotten Son of God...
33. Wherefore callest thou him our Lord?
34. What believest thou when thou sayest, He was conceived by th...
35. What profit takest thou by Christ’s holy Conception and Nati...
36. What believest thou when thou sayest he suffered.
37. For what cause should he suffer under Pilate, as being his J...
38. But is there any more in it, that he was fastened to the Cro...
39. Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself unto death...
40. To what end was he buried also?
41. But since that Christ died for us, why must we also die?
42. What other commodity receive we by the Death of Christ?
43. Why is there added, he descended into Hell?
44. What doth the Resurrection of Christ profit us?
45. How understand you that he ascended into Heaven?
46. Is not Christ with us then until the end of the World, as he...
47. Are not by this means the two natures in Christ pulled assun...
48. What Fruit doth the Ascension of Christ into Heaven bring un...
49. Why is it further said, he sitteth at the Right-Hand of God?
50. What profit is this Glory of our Head Christ unto us?
51. What Comfort hast thou by the coming of Christ again to judg...
52. What believest thou concerning the Holy Ghost?
53. What believest thou concerning the Holy and Catholick Church...
54. What mean those words, The Communion of Saints?
55. What believest thou concerning Remission of Sins?
56. What Comfort hast thou by the Resurrection of the Flesh?
57. What Comfort takest thou of the Article of everlasting Life?
58. But when thou believest all these things, what profit redoun...
59. How art thou righteous before God?
60. Why affirmest thou that thou art made Righteous by Faith onl...
61. Why cannot our good Works be Righteousness, or some part of...
62. How is it that our good Works merit nothing, seeing God prom...
63. But doth not this Doctrine make Men careless and profain?
64. Seeing then that only Faith maketh us Partakers of Christ an...
65. What are the Sacraments?
66. Doth then both the Word and Sacraments tend to that End, as...
67. How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in the new Testamen...
68. What is Baptism?
69. Who are the proper Subjects of this Ordinance?
70. Are no Infants to be baptized?
71. Doth the Scripture any where expressly forbid the Baptizing...
72. May not the Infant Seed of Believers under the Gospel be bap...
73. Seeing the Infants of Believers are in the Covenant of Grace...
74. How art thou admonished and assured in Baptism, that thou ar...
75. What is it to be washed with the Blood and Spirit of Christ?
76. Where doth Christ promise us that he will as certainly wash...
77. Is then the outward Baptism of Water the washing away of Sin...
78. Why then doth the Holy Ghost call Baptism the washing of the...
79. What Principle of Christ’s Doctrine in the holy Scripture fo...
80. What is the form and end of this Ordinance?
81. Is it the Duty of every Christian to be under this Practice?
82. Did not the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit follow upon la...
83. How art thou in the Lords Supper admonished and warranted th...
84. What is it to eat the Body of Christ?
85. Where hath Christ promised that he will as certainly give hi...
86. Are then the Bread and Wine made the very Body and Blood of...
87. Why then doth Christ call Bread his Body, and the Cup his Bl...
88. What Difference is there between the Supper of the Lord, and...
89. Who are to come unto the Table of the Lord?
90. Are they also to be admitted to the Lords Supper who in Conf...
91. How ought this Ordinance of the Lords Supper to be closed?
92. You told us but now, that those who in Confession and Life d...
93. How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by preaching of...
94. How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by Ecclesiastic...
95. Whereas we are delivered from all our Sins and Miseries with...
96. Cannot they then be saved which be unthankful, and remain st...
97. Of what Parts consisteth the Conversion of Man unto God?
98. What is the mortifying of the old Man?
99. What is the quickning of the new Man?
100. What are good Works?
101. Which is the Law of God?
102. How are these Commandments divided?
103. What is the Preface to the ten Commandments?
104. What learn we from this Preface?
105. Do these things belong unto us?
106. What is the first Commandment?
107. What doth God require in the first Commandment?
108. What is Idolatry?
109. What is the second Commandment?
110. What doth this second Commandment require?
111. May there then at all any Images or Resemblances of things b...
112. But may not Images be tolerated in Churches, which may serve...
113. What is the third Commandment?
114. What doth God decree in the third Commandment?
115. Is it then so grievous a Sin by swearing, or banning, to tak...
116. May a Man swear religiously and lawfully, by the Name of God...
117. Is it lawful to swear by Saints, or other Creatures?
118. What is the fourth Commandment?
119. What are we taught by the fourth Commandment?
120. What is the fifth Commandment?
121. What doth God enjoin us in the fifth Commandment?
122. What is the sixth Commandment?
123. What doth God exact in the sixth Commandment?
124. But this Commandment seems to forbid Murther only?
125. Is it enough then that we kill no Man, in such sort as hath...
126. What is the seventh Commandment?
127. What is the meaning of the seventh Commandment?
128. Forbiddeth God nothing else in this Commandment but actual A...
129. What is the eighth Commandment?
130. What doth God forbid in the eighth Commandment?
131. What are those things which God here commandeth?
132. What is the ninth Commandment?
133. What doth the ninth Commandment exact?
134. What is the tenth Commandment?
135. What doth the tenth Commandment forbid?
136. But can they who are converted to God, perfectly observe, an...
137. Why will God then have his Law to be so exactly and severely...
138. Wherefore is Prayer necessary for Christians?
139. What is required unto that Prayer which shall please God, an...
140. What are those things which he commandeth us to ask of him?
141. What Prayer is that?
142. Are Christians tied to this very Form of Prayer?
143. Why doth Christ teach us to call God our Father?
144. Why is that added, which art in Heaven?
145. What is the first Petition?
146. What is the second Petition?
147. What is the third Petition?
148. What is the fourth Petition?
149. What is the fifth Petition?
150. What is the sixth Petition?
151. How concludest thou this Prayer?
152. What meaneth this Particle, Amen?
Question 56
· Of the Holy Ghost
What Comfort hast thou by the Resurrection of the Flesh?
That not only my Soul, after it shall depart out of my Body, shall presently be taken up to Christ, but that this my Flesh also, being raised up by the Power of Christ, shall be again united to my Soul, and shall be made like to the glorious Body of Christ.
Luke 23:43; Philippians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 15:53; Job 19:25–26; 1 John 3:2; Philippians 3:21
