LORD’S DAY 7 20. Are all men, then, saved by Christ as they perished in Adam? No, only those who by true faith are ingrafted into Him and receive all His benefits. 21. What is true faith? True faith is not only a certain knowledge whereby I hold for truth all that God has revealed […]

LORD’S DAY 6 16. Why must He be a true and righteous man? Because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which has sinned should make satisfaction for sin, but one who is himself a sinner, cannot satisfy for others. 17. Why must He also be true God? That by the power

The Second Part – Of Man’s Deliverance LORD’S DAY 5 12. Since, then, by the righteous judgment of God we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, how may we escape this punishment and be again received into favor? God wills that His justice be satisfied; therefore, we must make full satisfaction to that justice, either by

LORD’S DAY 4 9. Does not God, then, do injustice to man by requiring of him in His Law that which he cannot perform? No, for God so made man that he could perform it, but man, through the instigation of the devil, by willful disobedience deprived himself and all his descendants of those divine

LORD’S DAY 3 6. Did God create man thus, wicked and perverse? No, but God created man good and after His own image, that is, in righteousness and true holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness, to praise and glorify Him. 7. From