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.

Q. 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.

Q. 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.

Q. 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.

Q. 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 to live unto righteousness.

Q. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adof:tion, and sanctification?

A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, Р

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.

Q. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?

A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and their bodies being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.

Q. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their 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 enjoyment of God, to all eternity.

Q. What is the duty which God requires of man ?

A. The duty which God requires of man, is obedience to his revealed will.

Q. 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 iaw. Q. Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?

A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.

Q. 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 hearts, and with all our souls, and with all our

strength, and with all our mind, and our neighbors as ourselves.

Q. 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."

Q. 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.

Q. What is the first commandment? A. The first commandment is, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me."

Q. 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.

Q. What is forbidden in the first commandment?

A. The first commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God and our God, and the giving that worship and glory to any other which is due to him alone.

Q. What are we especially 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 dis pleased with the sin of having any other God. Q. Which is the second commandment ?

A. The second commandment is, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing 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 shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments."

Q. 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. Q. What is forbidden in the second commandment?

A. The second commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or any other way, not appointed in his word.

Q. 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.

Q. What is the third commandment ?

A. The third commandment is, "Thou

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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."

Q. What is required in the third commandment?

A. The third commandment requireth, the holy and reverend use of God's name, titles, attributes, ordinances, word and works. Q. What is forbidden in the third commandment?

A. The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of any thing whereby God maketh himself known.

Q: 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 suf fer them to escape his righteous judgment. Q. 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, nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor the 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.

Q. What is required in the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath P 2