Westminster Shorter Catechism
A 1647 primer in question-and-answer form, still used to teach the faith.
Q. 1 — What is the chief end of man?Q. 2 — What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?Q. 3 — What do the Scriptures principally teach?Q. 4 — What is God?Q. 5 — Are there more Gods than one?Q. 6 — How many persons are there in the Godhead?Q. 7 — What are the decrees of God?Q. 8 — How doth God execute his decrees?Q. 9 — What is the work of creation?Q. 10 — How did God create man?Q. 11 — What are God's works of providence?Q. 12 — What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?Q. 13 — Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?Q. 14 — What is sin?Q. 15 — What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?Q. 16 — Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?Q. 17 — Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?Q. 18 — Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?Q. 19 — What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?Q. 20 — Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?Q. 21 — Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?Q. 22 — How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?Q. 23 — What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?Q. 24 — How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?Q. 25 — How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?Q. 26 — How doth Christ execute the office of a king?Q. 27 — Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?Q. 28 — Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?Q. 29 — How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?Q. 30 — How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?Q. 31 — What is effectual calling?Q. 32 — What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?Q. 33 — What is justification?Q. 34 — What is adoption?Q. 35 — What is sanctification?Q. 36 — What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?Q. 37 — What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?Q. 38 — What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?Q. 39 — What is the duty which God requireth of man?Q. 40 — What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?Q. 41 — Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?Q. 42 — What is the sum of the ten commandments?Q. 43 — What is the preface to the ten commandments?Q. 44 — What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?Q. 45 — Which is the first commandment?Q. 46 — What is required in the first commandment?Q. 47 — What is forbidden in the first commandment?Q. 48 — What are we specially taught by these words, 'before me', in the first commandment?Q. 49 — Which is the second commandment?Q. 50 — What is required in the second commandment?Q. 51 — What is forbidden in the second commandment?Q. 52 — What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?Q. 53 — Which is the third commandment?Q. 54 — What is required in the third commandment?Q. 55 — What is forbidden in the third commandment?Q. 56 — What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?Q. 57 — Which is the fourth commandment?Q. 58 — What is required in the fourth commandment?Q. 59 — Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?Q. 60 — How is the sabbath to be sanctified?Q. 61 — What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?Q. 62 — What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?Q. 63 — Which is the fifth commandment?Q. 64 — What is required in the fifth commandment?Q. 65 — What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?Q. 66 — What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?Q. 67 — Which is the sixth commandment?Q. 68 — What is required in the sixth commandment?Q. 69 — What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?Q. 70 — Which is the seventh commandment?Q. 71 — What is required in the seventh commandment?Q. 72 — What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?Q. 73 — Which is the eighth commandment?Q. 74 — What is required in the eighth commandment?Q. 75 — What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?Q. 76 — Which is the ninth commandment?Q. 77 — What is required in the ninth commandment?Q. 78 — What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?Q. 79 — Which is the tenth commandment?Q. 80 — What is required in the tenth commandment?Q. 81 — What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?Q. 82 — Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?Q. 83 — Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?Q. 84 — What doth every sin deserve?Q. 85 — What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?Q. 86 — What is faith in Jesus Christ?Q. 87 — What is repentance unto life?Q. 88 — What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?Q. 89 — How is the Word made effectual to salvation?Q. 90 — How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?Q. 91 — How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?Q. 92 — What is a sacrament?Q. 93 — Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?Q. 94 — What is Baptism?Q. 95 — To whom is Baptism to be administered?Q. 96 — What is the Lord's Supper?Q. 97 — What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?Q. 98 — What is prayer?Q. 99 — What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?Q. 100 — What doth the preface of the Lord's Prayer teach us?Q. 101 — What do we pray for in the first petition?Q. 102 — What do we pray for in the second petition?Q. 103 — What do we pray for in the third petition?Q. 104 — What do we pray for in the fourth petition?Q. 105 — What do we pray for in the fifth petition?Q. 106 — What do we pray for in the sixth petition?Q. 107 — What doth the conclusion of the Lord's Prayer teach us?