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What is the chief end of man? +A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 10.md b/references/wsc/Article 10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4493881 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 10.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 10. How did God create man? +A. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness and holiness, with dominion over the creatures. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 100.md b/references/wsc/Article 100.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bae3de --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 100.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 100. What doth the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us? +A. The preface of the Lord’s prayer, which is, Our Father which art in heaven, teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father able and ready to help us; and that we should pray with and for others. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 101.md b/references/wsc/Article 101.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac31534 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 101.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 101. What do we pray for in the first petition? +A. In the first petition, which is, Hallowed be thy name, we pray that God would enable us and others to glorify him in all that whereby he maketh himself known; and that he would dispose all things to his own glory. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 102.md b/references/wsc/Article 102.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0083fbf --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 102.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 102. What do we pray for in the second petition? +A. In the second petition, which is, Thy kingdom come, we pray that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed; and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it; and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 103.md b/references/wsc/Article 103.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e29b878 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 103.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 103. What do we pray for in the third petition? +A. In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we pray that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey and submit to his will in all things, as the angels do in heaven. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 104.md b/references/wsc/Article 104.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e463cd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 104.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 104. What do we pray for in the fourth petition? +A. In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread, we pray that of God’s free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy his blessing with them. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 105.md b/references/wsc/Article 105.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1adeeec --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 105.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 105. What do we pray for in the fifth petition? +A. In the fifth petition, which is, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, we pray that God, for Christ’s sake, would freely pardon all our sins; which we are the rather encouraged to ask, because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 106.md b/references/wsc/Article 106.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc9b7df --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 106.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 106. What do we pray for in the sixth petition? +A. In the sixth petition, which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, we pray that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin, or support and deliver us when we are tempted. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 107.md b/references/wsc/Article 107.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71e52f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 107.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 107. What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s prayer teach us? +A. The conclusion of the Lord’s prayer, which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever, Amen, teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only, and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power and glory to him. And in testimony of our desire, and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 11.md b/references/wsc/Article 11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfdb148 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 11.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 11. What are God’s works of providence? +A. God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 12.md b/references/wsc/Article 12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac0e0a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 12.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created? +A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 13.md b/references/wsc/Article 13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4ff708 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 13.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? +A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 14.md b/references/wsc/Article 14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9bec56 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 14.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 14. What is sin? +A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 15.md b/references/wsc/Article 15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..967bd47 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 15.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created? +A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 16.md b/references/wsc/Article 16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e2ae834 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 16.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression? +A. 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 17.md b/references/wsc/Article 17.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f93c9f --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 17.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? +A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 18.md b/references/wsc/Article 18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3320911 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 18.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? +A. The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 19.md b/references/wsc/Article 19.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..41c5140 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 19.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? +A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 2.md b/references/wsc/Article 2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d879343 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 2.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him? +A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 20.md b/references/wsc/Article 20.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ede11ba --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 20.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? +A. God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a redeemer. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 21.md b/references/wsc/Article 21.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30cdb3e --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 21.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 21. Who is the redeemer of God’s elect? +A. 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 continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 22.md b/references/wsc/Article 22.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51c5a7e --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 22.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? +A. 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 23.md b/references/wsc/Article 23.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..446cffc --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 23.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 23. What offices doth Christ execute as our redeemer? +A. Christ, as our redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 24.md b/references/wsc/Article 24.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad37173 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 24.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 24. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? +A. Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 25.md b/references/wsc/Article 25.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84d1f35 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 25.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 25. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? +A. Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God; and in making continual intercession for us. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 26.md b/references/wsc/Article 26.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b803df --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 26.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 26. How doth Christ execute the office of a king? +A. Christ executeth 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 27.md b/references/wsc/Article 27.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d9aea3 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 27.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 27. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist? +A. Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 28.md b/references/wsc/Article 28.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a46baea --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 28.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 28. Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation? +A. Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 29.md b/references/wsc/Article 29.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bcb247 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 29.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 29. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? +A. We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 3.md b/references/wsc/Article 3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d91c1e --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 3.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach? +A. The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 30.md b/references/wsc/Article 30.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8cd629f --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 30.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? +A. The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 31.md b/references/wsc/Article 31.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f24a78 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 31.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 31. What is effectual calling? +A. Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 32.md b/references/wsc/Article 32.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..483ef67 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 32.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? +A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 33.md b/references/wsc/Article 33.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49ab360 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 33.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 33. What is justification? +A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 34.md b/references/wsc/Article 34.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7a5c61 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 34.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 34. What is adoption? +A. Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of, the sons of God. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 35.md b/references/wsc/Article 35.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..afa6426 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 35.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 35. What is sanctification? +A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 36.md b/references/wsc/Article 36.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d60c87 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 36.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification? +A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 37.md b/references/wsc/Article 37.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..539b4bd --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 37.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? +A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 38.md b/references/wsc/Article 38.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec169ce --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 38.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? +A. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 39.md b/references/wsc/Article 39.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33a779d --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 39.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 39. What is the duty which God requireth of man? +A. The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to his revealed will. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 4.md b/references/wsc/Article 4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9287a4d --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 4.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 4. What is God? +A. God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 40.md b/references/wsc/Article 40.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86759de --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 40.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 40. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? +A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience was the moral law. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 41.md b/references/wsc/Article 41.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25a5678 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 41.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 41. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? +A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 42.md b/references/wsc/Article 42.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1353f48 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 42.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 42. What is the sum of the ten commandments? +A. The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 43.md b/references/wsc/Article 43.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..020c0ac --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 43.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 43. What is the preface to the ten commandments? +A. The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 44.md b/references/wsc/Article 44.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58d2422 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 44.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 44. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us? +A. The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us that because God is the Lord, and our God, and redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 45.md b/references/wsc/Article 45.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76301a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 45.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 45. Which is the first commandment? +A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 46.md b/references/wsc/Article 46.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76d75d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 46.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 46. What is required in the first commandment? +A. The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 47.md b/references/wsc/Article 47.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e65886a --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 47.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 47. What is forbidden in the first commandment? +A. The first commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshiping and glorifying the true God as God, and our God; and the giving of that worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 48.md b/references/wsc/Article 48.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0b86d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 48.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 48. What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment? +A. These words before me in the first commandment teach us that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other god. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 49.md b/references/wsc/Article 49.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57280e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 49.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 49. Which is the second commandment? +A. The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 5.md b/references/wsc/Article 5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e9f0cd --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 5.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 5. Are there more Gods than one? +A. There is but one only, the living and true God. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 50.md b/references/wsc/Article 50.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a33a9cc --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 50.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 50. What is required in the second commandment? +A. The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his word. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 51.md b/references/wsc/Article 51.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6bb27b --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 51.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 51. What is forbidden in the second commandment? +A. The second commandment forbiddeth the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his word. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 52.md b/references/wsc/Article 52.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..453be79 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 52.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 52. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment? +A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God’s sovereignty over us, his propriety in us, and the zeal he hath to his own worship. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 53.md b/references/wsc/Article 53.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d155e19 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 53.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 53. Which is the third commandment? +A. The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 54.md b/references/wsc/Article 54.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b41ee93 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 54.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 54. What is required in the third commandment? +A. The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, word and works. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 55.md b/references/wsc/Article 55.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38b9384 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 55.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 55. What is forbidden in the third commandment? +A. The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 56.md b/references/wsc/Article 56.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2751dc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 56.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 56. What is the reason annexed to the third commandment? +A. The reason annexed to the third commandment is that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 57.md b/references/wsc/Article 57.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38190cd --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 57.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 57. Which is the fourth commandment? +A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 58.md b/references/wsc/Article 58.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66cdd25 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 58.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 58. What is required in the fourth commandment? +A. The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 59.md b/references/wsc/Article 59.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..82fed94 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 59.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath? +A. From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 6.md b/references/wsc/Article 6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27ce293 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 6.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 6. How many persons are there in the godhead? +A. 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 60.md b/references/wsc/Article 60.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1c2bae --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 60.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 60. How is the sabbath to be sanctified? +A. The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 61.md b/references/wsc/Article 61.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ed78ea --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 61.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 61. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment? +A. The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words or works, about our worldly employments or recreations. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 62.md b/references/wsc/Article 62.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c5a206 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 62.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 62. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment? +A. The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath day. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 63.md b/references/wsc/Article 63.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f835d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 63.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 63. Which is the fifth commandment? +A. The fifth commandment is, Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 64.md b/references/wsc/Article 64.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cda00ff --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 64.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 64. What is required in the fifth commandment? +A. The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors or equals. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 65.md b/references/wsc/Article 65.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..891aab5 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 65.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 65. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment? +A. The fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing anything against, the honor and duty which belongeth to every one in their several places and relations. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 66.md b/references/wsc/Article 66.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d77126 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 66.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 66. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment? +A. The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is a promise of long life and prosperity (as far as it shall serve for God’s glory and their own good) to all such as keep this commandment. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 67.md b/references/wsc/Article 67.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3d126a --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 67.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 67. Which is the sixth commandment? +A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 68.md b/references/wsc/Article 68.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0ec771 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 68.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 68. What is required in the sixth commandment? +A. The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 69.md b/references/wsc/Article 69.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f57b15 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 69.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 69. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment? +A. The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbor unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 7.md b/references/wsc/Article 7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a5599f --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 7.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 7. What are the decrees of God? +A. The decrees of God are his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 70.md b/references/wsc/Article 70.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f915f1f --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 70.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 70. Which is the seventh commandment? +A. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 71.md b/references/wsc/Article 71.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..118bd8d --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 71.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 71. What is required in the seventh commandment? +A. The seventh commandment requireth the preservation of our own and our neighbor’s chastity, in heart, speech and behavior. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 72.md b/references/wsc/Article 72.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f048a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 72.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 72. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment? +A. The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words and actions. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 73.md b/references/wsc/Article 73.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e8f16e --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 73.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 73. Which is the eighth commandment? +A. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 74.md b/references/wsc/Article 74.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35b314e --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 74.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 74. What is required in the eighth commandment? +A. The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth and outward estate of ourselves and others. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 75.md b/references/wsc/Article 75.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83254fc --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 75.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 75. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment? +A. The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth or may unjustly hinder our own or our neighbor’s wealth or outward estate. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 76.md b/references/wsc/Article 76.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..350b13d --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 76.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 76. Which is the ninth commandment? +A. The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 77.md b/references/wsc/Article 77.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02a0880 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 77.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 77. What is required in the ninth commandment? +A. The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbor’s good name, especially in witness-bearing. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 78.md b/references/wsc/Article 78.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32e4398 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 78.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 78. What is forbidden in the ninth commandment? +A. The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own or our neighbor’s good name. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 79.md b/references/wsc/Article 79.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b5c6ab --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 79.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 79. Which is the tenth commandment? +A. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 8.md b/references/wsc/Article 8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ff4bd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 8.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 8. How doth God execute his decrees? +A. God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 80.md b/references/wsc/Article 80.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc6abef --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 80.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 80. What is required in the tenth commandment? +A. The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition, with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbor, and all that is his. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 81.md b/references/wsc/Article 81.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fe543b --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 81.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 81. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment? +A. The tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbor, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 82.md b/references/wsc/Article 82.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..386a691 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 82.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 82. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? +A. No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word and deed. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 83.md b/references/wsc/Article 83.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6405f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 83.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 83. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous? +A. Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 84.md b/references/wsc/Article 84.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d5529b --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 84.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 84. What doth every sin deserve? +A. Every sin deserveth God’s wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 85.md b/references/wsc/Article 85.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5e90d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 85.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 85. What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin? +A. To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life, with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 86.md b/references/wsc/Article 86.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8809833 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 86.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 86. What is faith in Jesus Christ? +A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 87.md b/references/wsc/Article 87.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eff4f5b --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 87.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 87. What is repentance unto life? +A. Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 88.md b/references/wsc/Article 88.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ded6d39 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 88.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 88. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? +A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption, are his ordinances, especially the word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 89.md b/references/wsc/Article 89.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3aad798 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 89.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 89. How is the word made effectual to salvation? +A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 9.md b/references/wsc/Article 9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0215032 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 9.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 9. What is the work of creation? +A. 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 90.md b/references/wsc/Article 90.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd372d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 90.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 90. How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? +A. That the word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 91.md b/references/wsc/Article 91.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2f1c16 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 91.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 91. How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? +A. The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 92.md b/references/wsc/Article 92.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d662525 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 92.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 92. What is a sacrament? +A. A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ; wherein, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 93.md b/references/wsc/Article 93.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8634495 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 93.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 93. Which are the sacraments of the New Testament? +A. The sacraments of the New Testament are baptism and the Lord’s supper. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 94.md b/references/wsc/Article 94.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02ee11f --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 94.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 94. What is baptism? +A. Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 95.md b/references/wsc/Article 95.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b63407b --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 95.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 95. To whom is baptism to be administered? +A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 96.md b/references/wsc/Article 96.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..97f6467 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 96.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 96. What is the Lord’s supper? +A. The Lord’s supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 97.md b/references/wsc/Article 97.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb89772 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 97.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 97. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s supper? +A. It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord’s supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord’s body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 98.md b/references/wsc/Article 98.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7fec1e --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 98.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 98. What is prayer? +A. Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/references/wsc/Article 99.md b/references/wsc/Article 99.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20803b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/references/wsc/Article 99.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Westminster Short Catechism + +## 99. What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer? +A. The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called the Lord’s prayer. \ No newline at end of file