Creator and Creation
This is man's chief end.
What is to glorify and enjoy God forever?
This is what God is, described as infinite, eternal, and unchangeable.
What is a spirit?
This was the specific sin that led to our first parents' fall from their created estate.
What is their eating the forbidden fruit?
This is the only redeemer of God's elect.
Who is the Lord Jesus Christ?
This is the rule God first revealed to man for his obedience.
What is the moral law?
This is another term for creation from nothing.
What is creatio ex nihilo?
This is the doctrine of God's being three persons in one nature.
What is the Trinity?
This is the consequence for all mankind descending from Adam by ordinary generation, due to his first transgression.
What is the loss of communion with God, his wrath and curse, and the pains of hell forever?
This is what Christ executes as our Redeemer.
What are the offices of Prophet, Priest, and King?
The moral law is summarily comprehended in these.
What are the Ten Commandments?
God created mankind, male and female, in His own image, with these three qualities.
What are knowledge, righteousness, and holiness?
This is another word for God's oneness.
What is unity?
The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and this other unpleasant condition.
What is misery?
Christ executes the office of a prophet by revealing God's will for our salvation through His word and this.
What is his Spirit?
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me" is this numbered commandment.
What is the first commandment?
God exercises His decrees through these two things.
What are the works of creation and providence?
The Word of God, found in the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us in this pursuit.
What is how we may glorify and enjoy him?
This is another term for the corruption of man's whole nature.
What is original sin?
Christ's humiliation involved being born in a low condition, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and this.
What is the cursed death of the cross?
For this reason God will not hold a man guiltless.
What is taking the Lord's name in vain?
This is the covenant God made with man at creation, conditioned on perfect obedience.
What is the Covenant of Works/Life?
This is God's eternal purpose, foreordaining whatsoever comes to pass for His own glory.
What is God's decree?
This is the kind of sin when a person does not live up to the standard of God's law.
What is the want of conformity unto the law God?
This describes Christ's rising again from the dead on the third day, ascending into heaven, and sitting on the right hand of God the Father.
What is Christ's exaltation?
These words teach that God is owed obedience.
What are the words, "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt"?