Answer: That both in soul and body, whether I live or die, I am not my own, but belong wholly unto my most faithful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. By His most precious blood fully satisfying for all my sins, He has delivered me from all the power of the devil, and so preserves me, that without the will of my heavenly Father not so much as a hair may fall from my head. Yes, all things must serve for my safety and by His Spirit, also He assures me of everlasting life, and makes me ready and prepared, that from now on I may live to Him.

Scripture Proofs: 1 Cor. 6:19; 1 Thess. 5:10; Rom. 14:8; 1 Cor. 3:23; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 3:8; Heb. 2:14-15; John 6:39-40; Matt. 10:30; Luke 21:18; Rom. 8:28; 2 Cor. 1:12; 2 Cor. 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14; Rom. 8:24-25

Answer: Three. The first, what is the greatness of my sin and misery. The second, how I am delivered from all sin and misery. The third, what thanks I owe to God for this delivery.

Scripture Proofs: Luke 24:47; Rom. 3:23; Rom. 8:15; 1 Cor. 6:11; Titus 3:3-38; Matt. 5:16; Rom. 6:11-13; Eph. 5:10; Titus 2:11-12; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 3:10-12

Answer:  From the law of God.

Scripture Proofs: Romans 3:20; Romans 5:20; Romans 7:5, 13 Timothy 3:15,16

Answer: That which Christ summarily teaches us, Matthew 22:37-40. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first and the great commandment; and the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.

Scripture Proofs: Luke 10:27

Answer: No. By nature I am prone to the hatred of God and of my neighbors.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 3:10, 23; 1 John 1:8; Rom. 8:7; Eph. 2:3; Titus 3:3

Answer: Not so. He made him good, and in His own image, endowing him with true righteousness and holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, and heartily love Him, and live with Him blessed forever, and that to laud and magnify Him.

Scripture Proofs: Gen. 1:31; Gen. 1:26-27; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10; 2 Cor. 3:18

Answer: From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Even. For this reason our nature is so corrupt and we are all conceived and born in sin.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 5:12; Rom. 5:18-19; Gen. 5:3; Psalms 51:5

Answer: Indeed we are, except we are regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

Scripture Proofs: Gen. 6:5; Job 14:4; Job 15:16; Isa. 53:6; John 3:5

Answer: No. God made man such a one as he might perform it, but man, by the impulsion of the devil and his own stubbornness bereaved himself and all his posterity of those diving graces.

Scripture Proofs: Ecc. 7:29; Gen. 3:1-24; Rom. 5:12-21

Answer: No. He is angry in a most dreadful manner, for the sins wherein we are born and wich we ourselves commit. In a most just judgement, He punishes them with present and everlasting punishments as He pronounces: “Cursed is he that does not confirm all the words of this law to do them”.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 5:12; Deut. 27:26; Gal. 3:10

Answer: Yes, very much so! He is merciful, but He is also just, wherefore His justice requires that the same which is committed against the divine majesty of God should also be recomensed with extreme, that is, everlasting punishment both in body and soul.

Scripture Proofs: Exodus 34:6; Psalm 5:4-6; Exodus 20:5

Answer: God will have His justice satisfied. Therefore, it is necessary that we satisfy it either by ourselves or by another.

Scripture Proofs: Exd. 20:5; Exd. 23:7; Rom. 8:3

Answer: Not one bit. Instead, we increase our debt every day.

Scripture Proofs: Job 9:2-3; Job 15:15; Matt. 6:12

Answer: None. For first, God will not punish that sin which man has committed in any other creature; and second, neither can that which is nothing but a creature sustain the wrath of God against sin and deliver others from it.

Scripture Proofs: Job 4:18; Job 25:5; Psalm 130:3; Hebrews 2:14-18; Hebrews 10:5-10

Answer: Such a one as is very man and perfectly just, and yet in power above all creatures, that is, one who also is very God.

Scripture Proofs: Isa. 7:14; Isa. 53:11; Jer. 23:6; Rom. 8:3; 1 Cor. 15:25; 2 Cor. 5:14; Heb. 7:16

Answer: Because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which has sinned do itself likewise make recompense for sin; but he that is himself a sinner, cannot make recompense for others.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 5:12, 17; 1 Pet 3:18; Heb. 7:26

Answer: That He might by the power of His Godhead sustain in His flesh the burden of God’s wrath and might recover and restore to us that righteousness and life which we lost.

Scripture Proofs: Isa. 55:3; Acts 2:24; 1 Pet. 3:18; John 3:16; Acts 20:28; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 4:9-10

Answer: Even our Lord Jesus Christ who is made to us of God’s wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

Scripture Proofs: Matt. 1:23; Luke 2:11; John 14:16; 1 Tim. 2:5; 1 Cor. 1:30

Answer: Out of the gospel which God first made known in paradise, and afterwards did spread it abroad by the patriarchs and prophets, shadowed it by sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law, and lastly accomplished it by His only begotten Son, Christ our Lord.

Scripture Proofs: Gen. 3:15; Gen. 22:18; Gen. 49:10-11; Acts 3:22; Acts 10:43; Rom. 1:2; Heb. 1:1; John 5:46; Heb. 10:7ff; Rom. 10:4; Gal. 3:24; Gal. 4:4; Heb. 13:8

Answer: No. Only those are saved who by true faith are grafted into Christ and accept all his blessings.

Scripture Proofs: Matt. 7:14; John 3:16,18,36; Rom. 11:16-21

Answer: It is not only a knowledge, whereby I surely assent to all things which God has revealed to us in His Word, but also an assured trust kindled in my heart by the Holy Spirit, through the gospel, whereby I make my repose in God being assuredly resolved that remission of sins, everlasting righteousness, and life is given not to others only, but to me also and that freely through the mercy of God for the merits of Christ alone.

Scripture Proofs: Heb. 11:1-3; Gal. 2:20; James 2:19; Rom. 4:16; Rom. 5:1; Rom. 10:10; Matthew 16:17; John 3:5; Acts 10:45; Gal. 5:22; Phil. 1:19; Mark 16:16; Acts 16:14; Rom. 1:16; Rom. 10:17; 1 Cor. 1:21; Acts 10:42-43; Rom. 3:24-25

Answer: All things which are promised us in the gospel. The sum of this is briefly comprised in the articles of the catholic and undoubted faith of all true Christians, commonly called the Apostles’ Creed. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried, He descended into *hell, the third day He rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from where He shall come to judge both the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy +catholic Church, the communion of sains, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. 

*Not that He, (that is, Christ), went into the place of the damned, but that He went absolutely into the state of the dead. See Dr. Usher of Christ, in his Body of Divinity, page 174. and Mr. Perkins on the Creed.

+Not that we are to believe in, but that there is a catholic Church, and by catholic, we mean no more than the universal Church, which is a company chosen out of the whole of mankind to everlasting life, by the Word and Spirit of God.

Answer: Into three: the first of the eternal Father, and our creation; the second of the Son, and our redemption; and the third of the Holy Spirit, and our sanctification.

Answer: Because God has manifested Himself in His Word that these three distinct persons are that one true everlasting God.

Scripture Proofs: Deut. 6:4; Isa. 44:6; 1 Cor. 8:4; Eph. 4:6; Psalm 110:1; Isa. 61:1; Matt. 3:16-17; Matt. 28:19; Luke 4:18; John 14:26; John 15:26; 2 Cor. 13:14; Gal. 4:6; Eph. 2:18; Titus 3:5-6; 1 John 5:7

Answer: I believe in the everlasting Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who made of nothing heaven and earth, with all that are in them, who likewise upholds and governs the same by His eternal counsel and providence. This God I believe to be my God and Father for Christ’s sake, and therefore to trust in Him, and rely on Him, that I do not doubt that He will provide all things necessary both for my soul and body. But also, whatever evils He sends on me in this troublesome life, He will turn out to my safety, because both He is able to do it, being God almighty, and willing to do it, being a bountiful Father.

Scripture Proofs: Gen. 1:1-12; Job 33:4; Psa. 33:6; Isa. 45:7; Acts 4:24; Acts 14:15; Psalm 104:3 Psalm 115:3; Matt. 10:29; Rom. 11:36; Heb. 1:3; John 1:12; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:5-6; Eph. 1:5; Psalm 55:23; Matt. 6:26; Luke 12:22; Rom. 8:28; Isa. 46:4 Rom. 8:38-39; Rom. 10:12

Answer: The almighty power of God, everywhere present whereby He does, as it were, by His hand uphold and govern heaven and earth, with all creatures therein, so that those things which grow in the earth, as likewise rain and drought, fruitfulness and barrenness, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, in a word, all things come not rashly and by chance, but by His fatherly counsel and will.

Scripture Proofs: Psalm 94:9; Isa. 29:15; Ezek. 8:12; Acts 17:25; Heb. 1:2-3; Prov. 22:2; Jer. 5:24; John 9:3; Acts 14:17

Answer: That in adversity we may be patient, and thankful in prosperity, and have hereafter our chief hope reposed in God our most faithful Father. We can be sure that there is nothing which may withdraw us from His love, forasmuch as all creatures are so in His power, that without His will they are not able not only to do anything, but not so much as once to move.

Scripture Proofs: Job 1:21; Rom. 5:3; Deut. 8:10; 1 Thess. 5:18; Rom. 5:4-5; Rom. 8:19,38; Job 1:12; Job 2:6; Prov. 21:1; Acts 17:27

Answer: Because He saves us from our sins; neither ought any safety to be sought from any other, nor can it be found elsewhere.

Scripture Proofs: Matt. 1:21; Acts 4:12; Heb. 7:25

Answer: No. For although in word they boast themselves of Him as their only Savior, yet indeed they deny the only Savior Jesus. For either Jesus is not a perfect Savior, or that those who embrace Him as their Savior with a true faith, possess all things in Him which are required unto salvation.

Scripture Proofs: 1 Cor. 1:13, 30; Isa. 9:6; Isa. 43:11, 25

Answer: Because He was ordained of the Father and anointed of the Holy Spirit the chief Prophet and Teacher, who has opened unto us the secret counsel and all the will of His Father concerning our redemption. He was ordained and anointed the high Priest, who with that one only sacrifice of His body has redeemed us and continually makes intercession to His Father for us. He was also ordained and anointed a King, who rules us by His Word and Spirit, and defends and maintains that salvation which He has purchased for us.

Scripture Proofs: Psalm 45:7; Heb. 1:9; Deut. 18:15; Acts 3:22; Matt. 11:27; John 1:18; John 15:15; Heb. 7:21; Rom. 3:24; Rom. 5:9-10; Heb. 10:12; Heb. 7:25; Psalm 2:6; Luke 1:33; Matt. 28:18

Answer: Because through faith I am a member of Jesus Christ, and partaker of His anointing, that both I may confess His name, and present myself unto Him a living sacrifice of thankfulness, and also may in this life fight against sin and Satan with a free and good conscience, and afterwards enjoy an everlasting kingdom with Christ.

Scripture Proofs: Acts 11:26; 1 Cor. 6:15; 1 John 2:27; Matt. 10:32; Rom. 12:1; Heb. 13:15; 1 Pet. 2:5; Rev. 5:8; Rom. 6:12-13; 1 Tim. 1:18-19; 2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 1:6

Answer: Because Christ alone is the eternal and natural Son of the eternal Father, and we are but sons adopted of the Father by grace for His sake.

Scripture Proofs: John 3:16; Rom. 8:3; Heb. 1:2-3; John 1:12; Gal. 4:5; Eph. 1:6; 1 John 1:3

Answer: Because He, redeeming and ransoming both our body and soul from sin, not with gold or silver, but with His precious blood, and delivering us from all the power of the devil, has set us free to serve Him.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 14:9; 1 Cor. 6:20; Eph. 1:7; 1 Tim. 2:5-6; 1 Peter 1:18

Answer: That the Son of God, who is and continues true and everlasting God, took the very nature of man, of the flesh and blood of the virgin Mary, through the working of the Holy Spirit, that He might be the true Seed of David, like unto His brethren in all things, sin excepted.

Scripture Proofs: John 20:28; Rom. 9:5; 1 John 5:20; Isa. 7:14; Isa. 9:6; John 1:14; Gal. 4:4; Matt. 1:20; Rom. 1:3; Phil. 2:7; Heb. 4:15; Heb. 7:26

Answer: That He is our Mediator, and does cover with His innocence and perfect holiness my sins, in which I was conceived, that they may not come in the sight of God.

Scripture Proofs: Heb. 2:16-17; Heb. 4:15; Psalm 32:1; Rom. 8:3-4; 1 Cor. 1:30; Rom. 8:3-4

Answer: That He all the time of His life which He led on earth, but especially at the end of it, sustained the wrath of God both in body and soul, against the sin of all mankind. He might by His passion, as the only propitiatory sacrifice, deliver our body and soul from everlasting damnation and purchase for us the favor of God, righteousness, and eternal life.

Scripture Proofs: Isa. 53:12; 1 Pet. 2:4; 1 Pet. 3:18; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10

Answer: That He being innocent and condemned before a civil judge, might deliver us from the severe judgement of God which remained for all men.

Scripture Proofs: Luke 23:14; John 19:4; Psalm 69:4; John 15:25; Isa. 53:4-5; 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13

Answer: There is more. By this I am assured that He took upon Himself the curse which did lie on me, for the death of the cross was cursed of God.

Scripture Proofs: Deut. 21:23; Gal. 3:13

Answer: Because the justice and truth of God could by no other means be satisfied for our sins, but by the very death of the Son of God.

Scripture Proofs: Gen. 2:17; Phil. 2:8; Heb. 2:9, 14-18

Answer: That by it He might manifest that He was dead indeed.

Scripture Proofs: Matt. 27:59-60; Luke 23:53; John 19:38; Acts 13:29

Answer: Our death is not a satisfaction for our sins, but the abolishing of sin and our passage into everlasting life.

Scripture Proofs: John 5:24; Rom. 7:24; Phil. 1:23

Answer: That by virtue of His death our old man is crucified, slain, and buried together with Him, figured out in holy baptism, that henceforth evil lusts and desires may not reign in us, but we may offer ourselves unto Him a sacrifice of thanksgiving.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 6:6; Rom. 6:12; Rom. 12:1

Answer: That in my greatest pains and most grievous temptations I may support myself with this comfort, that my Lord Jesus Christ has delivered me (by the unspeakable distresses, torments, and terrors of His soul, into which He was plunged both before and then especially when He hung on the cross) from the the straits and torments of hell. (Not that He (that is, Christ) went into the place of the damned, but that He went absolutely into the place of the dead. See Dr. Usher in his “Body of Divinity” (page 174) and Mr. Perkins on the Creed.)

Scripture Proofs: Isa. 53:10; Matt. 27:46

Answer: First, by His resurrection, He vanquished death, that He might make us partakers of that righteousness which He had gotten us by His death. Second, we are now also stirred up by His power to a new life. Lastly, the resurrection of our head, Christ, is a pledge to us of our glorious resurrection.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 4:25; 1 Pet. 1:3-4,21; Rom. 6:4; Col. 3:1; Rom. 8:11; 1 Cor. 15:22-23

Answer: That Christ, His disciples looking on, was taken up from the earth into heaven, and yet still is there for our sakes, and will be until He comes again to judge the living and the dead.

Scripture Proofs: Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9; Rom. 8:34; Eph. 4:10; Col. 3:1; Heb. 4:14; Heb. 7:25; Heb. 9:11; Matt. 24:30; Acts 1:11

Answer: Christ is true God, and true man, and so according to His manhood is not now on earth, but according to His Godhead, His majesty, His grace and Spirit is at no time apart from us.

Scripture Proofs: Matt. 26:11; John 16:18; 17:11; Acts 3:21; Matt. 28:20; John 14:17; John 16:13; Eph. 4:8

Answer: No. Seeing His divinity is incomprehensible, and everywhere present, it follows necessarily that the same is without the bounds of His human nature which He took to Himself, and yet is nevertheless in it, and abides personally united to it.

Scripture Proofs: Jer. 23:23-24; Acts 7:48-49; Acts 17:27; Matt. 28:6; Col. 2:9

Answer: First, that He makes intercession to His Father in heaven for us. Second, that we have our flesh in heaven, that we may be confirmed thereby, as by a sure pledge, that He who is our head will lift us up, His members, unto Him. Third, that He sends us His Spirit as a pledge between Him and us, by whose power we seek after not earthly but heavenly things, where He Himself is sitting at the right hand of God.

Scripture Proofs: Rom. 8:34; 1 John 2:1-2; John 14:2; John 20:17; Eph. 2:6; John 14:16; John 16:7; 2 Cor. 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14; Phil. 3:14; Col. 3:1; Eph. 1:20; Phil. 3:20

Answer: Because Christ is ascended into heaven, to show there that He is the head of His Church, by whom the Father governs all things.

Scripture Proofs: Eph. 1:20-23; Eph. 5:23; Col. 1:18; Matt. 28:18; John 5:22

Answer: First, that through His Holy Spirit, He pours upon us, His members, heavenly graces, and that He shields and defends us by His power against all our enemies.

Scripture Proofs: Eph. 4:16; Psalm 2:9; Psalm 110:2; John 10:28; Eph. 4:8

Answer: The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God and our God,1 and to worship and glorify him accordingly.2

1 1 Chronicles 28:9; Deuteronomy 26:17
2 Matthew 4:10; Psalm 29:2

Answer: The first commandment forbiddeth the denying,1 or not worshipping and glorifying the true God,2 as God and our God,3 and the giving of that worship and glory to any other, which is due unto him alone.4

1 Psalm 14:1
2 Romans 1:21
3 Psalm 81:10-11
4 Romans 1:25-26

Answer: 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.1

1 Exodus 8:5

Answer: 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 shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.1

1 Exodus 20:4–6

Answer: 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.1

1 Deuteronomy 32:46; Matthew 23:20; Acts 2:42

Answer: The second commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images1 or any other way not appointed in his word.2

1 Deuteronomy 4:15–19; Exodus 32:5, 8
2 Deuteronomy 12:31–32

Answer: The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God’s sovereignty over us,1 his propriety in us,2 and the zeal he hath to his own worship.3

1 Psalm 45:2–3, 6
2 Psalm 45:11
3 Exodus 34:13-14

Answer: 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.1

1 Exodus 20:7

Answer: The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God’s names,1 titles,2 attributes,3 ordinances,4 word,5 and works.6

1 Matthew 6:9; Deuteronomy 28:58
2 Psalm 68:4
3 Revelation 15:3-4
4 Malachi 1:11,14
5 Psalm 136:1-2
6 Job 36:24

Answer: The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning and abusing of any thing whereby God makes himself known.1

1 Malachi 1:6–7, 12; 2:2; 3:14

Answer: 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.

Answer: The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; six days shalt thou labour 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.1

1 Exodus 20:8–11

Answer: 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.1

1 Exodus 20:8–11; Deuteronomy 5:12–14

Answer: Before the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath;1 and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.2

1 Exodus 20:8–11; Deuteronomy 5:12–14
2 Psalm 118:24; Matthew 28:1; Mark 2:27-28; John 20:19-20, 26; Revelation 1:10; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1, 30-36; John 20:1; Acts 1:3; 2:1-2; 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2

Answer: The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day,1 even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days;2 and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship,3 except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.4

1 Exodus 20:8, 10
2 Exodus 16:25-28; Nehemiah 13:15-22
3 Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7; Psalm 92:title; Isaiah 66:23
4 Matthew 12:1-13

Answer: The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required,1 and the profaning the day by idleness,2 or doing that which is in itself sinful,3 or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about worldly employments or recreations.4

Answer: The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, are God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own lawful employments,1 his challenging a special propriety in a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.2

1 Exodus 20:9
2 Exodus 20:11

Answer: The fifth commandment is, Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.1

1 Exodus 20:12

Answer: The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honour and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors,1 inferiors,2 or equals.3

1 Ephesians 5:21
2 1 Peter 2:17
3 Romans 12:10

Answer: The fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglect of, or doing any thing against the honour and duty which belongeth to every one in their several places and relations.1

1 Matthew 15:4–6; Ezekiel 34:24; Romans 13:8

Answer: 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.1

1 Deuteronomy 5:16; Ephesians 6:2–3

Answer: The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.1

1 Exodus 20:13

Answer: The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life1 and the life of others.2

1 Ephesians 5:28–29
2 1 Kings 18:4

Answer: The sixth commandment absolutely forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto.1

1 Acts 26:28; Genesis 9:9

Answer: The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.1

1 Exodus 20:14

Answer: The seventh commandment requireth the preservation of our own and our neighbor’s chastity, in heart, speech, and behavior.1

1 1 Corinthians 7:2–3, 5, 34, 36; Colossians 4:6; 1 Peter 3:2

Answer: The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.1

1 Matthew 15:19; 5:28; Ephesians 5:3–4

Answer: The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.1

1 Exodus 20:15

Answer: The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth and outward estate of ourselves and others.1

1 Genesis 30:30; 1 Timothy 5:8; Leviticus 25:35; Deuteronomy 22:1–5; Exodus 23:4–5; Genesis 47:14, 20

Answer: The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth or may unjustly hinder our own1 or our neighbour’s wealth or outward estate.2

1 1 Timothy 5:8; Proverbs 28:19
2 Proverbs 21:17, 23:20-21; Ephesians 4:28

Answer: The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.1

1 Exodus 20:16

Answer: The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man,1 and of our own and our neighbour’s good name,2 especially in witness bearing.3

1 Zechariah 8:16
2 John 5:12
3 Proverbs 14:5, 25

Answer: The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to the truth, or injurious to our own or our neighbour’s good name.1

1 1 Samuel 17:28; Leviticus 19:16; Psalm 15:2–3

Answer: The tenth commandment is Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s.1

1 Exodus 20:17

Answer: The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition,1 with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbour, and all that is his.2

1 Hebrews 13:5; 1 Timothy 6:6
2 Job 31:29; Romans 7:15; 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Corinthians 8:4,7

Answer: The tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate,1 envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour,2 and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.3

1 1 Kings 21:4; Esther 5:13; 1 Corinthians 10:10
2 Galatians 5:26; James 3:14,16
3 Romans 7:7-8, 13:9; Deuteronomy 5:21

Answer: No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God,1 but doth daily break them in thought, word, or deed.2

1 Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 John 1:8, 10; Galatians 5:17
2 Genesis 6:5, 8:21; Rom. 3:9-21; James 3:2-13

Answer: Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.1

1 Ezekiel 8:6, 13, 15; 1 John 5:16; Psalm 78:17, 32, 56

Answer: Every sin deserveth God’s wrath and curse, both in this life and that which is to come.1

1 Ephesians 5:6; Galatians 3:10; Lamentations 3:39; Matthew 25:41; Romans 6:23

Answer: To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life,1 with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption.2

1 Acts 20:21
2 Proverbs 2:1-6, 8:33 to the end; Isaiah 55:2-3

Answer: Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace,1 whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.2

1 Hebrews 10:39
2 John 1:12; Isaiah 26:3-4; Philippians 3:9; Galatians 2:16

Answer: Repentance unto life is a saving grace,1 whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin,2 and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ,3 doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God,4 with full purpose of and endeavour after new obedience.5

1 Acts 11:28
2 Acts 2:37-38
3 Joel 2:12; Jeremiah 3:22
4 Jeremiah 31:18-19; Ezekiel 36:31
5 2 Corinthians 7:11; Isaiah 1:16-17

Answer: The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption are his ordinances, especially the word, baptism, the Lord’s supper, and prayer; all which means are made effectual to the elect for salvation.1

1 Matthew 28:19–20; Acts 2:42, 46–47

Answer: 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.1

1 Nehemiah 8:8; Acts 26:18; Psalm 19:8; Acts 20:32; Romans 1:15–16; 10:13–17; 15:4; 1 Corinthians 14:24–25; 2 Timothy 3:15–17

Answer: That the word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence,1 preparation,2 and prayer;3 receive it with faith and love,4 lay it up in our hearts,5 and practice it in our lives.6

1 1 Proverbs 8:34
2 1 Peter 2:1-2
3 Psalm 119:18
4 Hebrews 4:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:10
5 Psalm 119:18
6 Luke 8:15; James 1:25

Answer: Baptism and the Lord’s supper become effectual means of salvation, not for any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them, but only by the blessing of Christ,1 and the working of the Spirit in those that by faith receive them.2

1 1 Peter 3:21; Matthew 3:11; 1 Corinthians 3:6–7
2 1 Corinthians 12:3; Matthew 28:19

Answer: Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament instituted by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death, burial, and resurrection; of his being ingrafted into him;1 of remission of sins;2 and of his giving up himself unto God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.3

1 Romans 6:3–5; Colossians 2:12; Galatians 3:27
2 Mark 1:4; Acts 2:38, 22:16
3 Romans 6:3-4

Answer: Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God,1 faith in and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.2

1 Acts 2:38; Matthew 3:6
2 Acts 8:12, 36-38; 10:47-48

Answer: The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptized, because there is neither command or example in the holy scriptures, or certain consequence from them to baptize such.1

1 Exodus 23:13; Proverbs 30:6; Luke 3:7–8

Answer: Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the party in water, into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ’s institution, and the practice of the apostles,1 and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.

1 Matthew 3:16; John 3:23; 4:1–2; Matthew 28:19–20; Acts 8:38; Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12

Answer: It is the duty of such who are rightly baptized to give up themselves to some particular and orderly church of Jesus Christ, that they may walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.1

1 Acts 2:41–42; 5:13–14; 9:26; 1 Peter 2:5; Luke 1:6

Answer: The Lord’s supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is shown 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.1

1 Matthew 26:26–28; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26; 10:16

Answer: They who have been baptized upon a personal profession of their faith in Jesus Christ, and repentance from dead works.1

1 Acts 2:41–42

Answer: 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,1 of their faith to feed upon him,2 of their repentance,3 love,4 and new obedience,5 lest coming unworthily they eat and drink judgment to themselves.6

1 1 Corinthians 11:28–29
2 2 Corinthians 13:5
3 1 Corinthians 11:31
4 1 Corinthians 10:16-17
5 1 Corinthians 5:7-8
6 1 Corinthians 11:28-29

Answer: Prayer is an offering up our desires to God,1 by the assistance of the Holy Spirit,2 for things agreeable to his will,3 in the name of Christ,4 believing,5 with confession of our sins,6 and thankful acknowledgments of his mercies.7

1 Psalm 62:8
2 Romans 8:26
3 1 John 5:14; Romans 8:27
4 John 16:23
5 Matthew 21:22; James 1:6
6 Psalm 32:5-6; Daniel 9:4
7 Philippians 4:6

Answer: The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer;1 but the special rule of direction is that prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called the Lord’s prayer.2

1 1 John 5:14
2 Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4

Answer: The preface of the Lord’s prayer, which is Our Father which art in heaven,1 teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father, able and ready to help us;2 and that we should pray with and for others.3

1 Matthew 6:9
2 Romans 8:15; Luke 11:13; Isaiah 24:8
3 Acts 12:5; 1 Timothy 2:1-2

Answer: In the first petition, which is, Hallowed be thy name,1 we pray that God would enable us and others to glorify him in all that whereby he maketh himself known,2 and that he would dispose all things to his own glory.3

1 Matthew 6:9
2 Psalm 67:2-3
3 Psalm 83 throughout; Romans 11:36

Answer: In the second petition, which is, Thy kingdom come,1 we pray that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed,2 and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced3 ourselves and others brought into it and kept in it,4 and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened.5

1 Matthew 6:10
2 Psalm 68:1, 18
3 Revelation 12:10-11
4 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Romans 10:1; John 17:19-20
5 Revelation 22:10

Answer: In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven1 we pray that God by his grace would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things,2 as the angels do in heaven.3

1 Matthew 6:10
2 Psalm 67 throughout; Psalm 119:36; 2 Samuel 15:25; Job 1:21
3 Psalm 103:20-21

Answer: In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread,1 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.2

1 Matthew 6:11
2 Proverbs 30:8; Genesis 28:20; 1 Timothy 4:4-5

Answer: In the fifth petition, which is, And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,1 we pray that God, for Christ’s sake, would freely pardon all our sins2 which we are rather encouraged to ask because of his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others.3

1 Matthew 6:12
2 Psalm 51:1-2,7,9; Daniel 9:17-19
3 Luke 11:4; Matthew 18:35

Answer: In the sixth petition, which is, And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,1 we pray that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin,2 or support and deliver us when we are tempted.3

1 Matthew 6:13
2 Matthew 26:31
3 2 Corinthians 12:8

Answer: The conclusion of the Lord’s prayer, which is, For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen,1 teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only,2 and in our prayers to praise Him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory, to Him.3 And in testimony of our desire and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen.4

1 Matthew 6:13
2 Daniel 9:4,7-9,16-19
3 1 Chronicles 29:10-13
4 1 Corinthians 4:16; Revelation 22:20-21