Transcription of The Westminster Shorter Catechism
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TheWestminsterShorterCatechism107 TheWestminsterShorter CatechismQ. 1. What is the chief end of man?A. Man s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we mayglorify and enjoy him?A. The word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Oldand New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorifyand enjoy 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach?A. The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believeconcerning God, and what duty God requires of 4. What is God?A. God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being,wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and 5. Are there more Gods than one?A. There is but one only, the living and true 6.
Q. 19. W hat is the misery of that estat e whereinto man fell? A. All mankind, by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liabl e to all miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever. Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the esta te of sin and misery?
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