Summary of Christian Doctrine

Summary of Christian Doctrine of the Westminster Larger Catechism

Summary of Christian Doctrine - Section of the Westminster Larger Catechism

1. What is the chief and highest end of man?▶︎
2. How doth it appear that there is a God?▶︎
3. What is the Word of God?▶︎
4. How doth it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God?▶︎
5. What do the Scriptures principally teach?▶︎
6. What do the Scriptures make known of God?▶︎
7. What is God?▶︎
8. Are there more Gods than one?▶︎
9. How many persons are there in the Godhead?▶︎
10. What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead?▶︎
11. How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father?▶︎
12. What are the decrees of God?▶︎
13. What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?▶︎
14. How doth God execute his decrees?▶︎
15. What is the work of creation?▶︎
16. How did God create angels?▶︎
17. How did God create man?▶︎
18. What are God's works of providence?▶︎
19. What is God's providence toward the angels?▶︎
20. What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created?▶︎
21. Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?▶︎
22. Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?▶︎
23. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?▶︎
24. What is sin?▶︎
25. Wherein consisteth the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?▶︎
26. How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?▶︎
27. What misery did the fall bring upon mankind?▶︎
28. What are the punishments of sin in this world?▶︎
29. What are the punishments of sin in the world to come?▶︎
30. Doth God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?▶︎
31. With whom was the covenant of grace made?▶︎
32. How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant?▶︎
33. Was the covenant of grace always administered after one and the same manner?▶︎
34. How was the covenant of grace administered under the Old Testament?▶︎
35. How is the covenant of grace administered under the New Testament?▶︎
36. Who is the Mediator of the covenant of grace?▶︎
37. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?▶︎
38. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God?▶︎
39. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man?▶︎
40. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person?▶︎
41. Why was our Mediator called Jesus?▶︎
42. Why was our Mediator called Christ?▶︎
43. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?▶︎
44. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?▶︎
45. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?▶︎
46. What was the estate of Christ's humiliation?▶︎
47. How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?▶︎
48. How did Christ humble himself in his life?▶︎
49. How did Christ humble himself in his death?▶︎
50. Wherein consisted Christ's humiliation after his death?▶︎
51. What was the estate of Christ's exaltation?▶︎
52. How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?▶︎
53. How was Christ exalted in his ascension?▶︎
54. How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God?▶︎
55. How doth Christ make intercession?▶︎
56. How is Christ to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world?▶︎
57. What benefits hath Christ procured by his mediation?▶︎
58. How do we come to be made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured?▶︎
59. Who are made partakers of redemption through Christ?▶︎
60. Can they who have never heard of the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature?▶︎
61. Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the Church?▶︎
62. What is the visible Church?▶︎
63. What are the special privileges of the visible Church?▶︎
64. What is the invisible Church?▶︎
65. What special benefits do the members of the invisible Church enjoy by Christ?▶︎
66. What is that union which the elect have with Christ?▶︎
67. What is effectual calling?▶︎
68. Are the elect only effectually called?▶︎
69. What is the communion in grace, which the members of the invisible Church have with Christ?▶︎
70. What is justification?▶︎
71. How is justification an act of God's free grace?▶︎
72. What is justifying faith?▶︎
73. How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?▶︎
74. What is adoption?▶︎
75. What is sanctification?▶︎
76. What is repentance unto life?▶︎
77. Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?▶︎
78. Whence ariseth the imperfection of sanctification in believers?▶︎
79. May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace?▶︎
80. Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace, and that they shall persevere therein unto salvation?▶︎
81. Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved?▶︎
82. What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible Church have with Christ?▶︎
83. What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible Church enjoy in this life?▶︎
84. Shall all men die?▶︎
85. Death, being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?▶︎
86. What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible Church enjoy immediately after death?▶︎
87. What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?▶︎
88. What shall immediately follow after the resurrection?▶︎
89. What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?▶︎
90. What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?▶︎