Ramblings along the narrow way

Q61 What is the fourth commandment?
A Remember Sunday, to keep it holy.

Q62 How should Sunday be spent?
A In resting from our daily work, worshipping God, and in doing good to our fellow men.

Q. Wherein consisted Christ’s humiliation after his death?
A. Christ’s humiliation after his death consisted in his being buried, and continuing in the state of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day; which hath been otherwise expressed in these words, He descended into hell.

Q. What was the estate of Christ’s exaltation?
A. The estate of Christ’s exaltation comprehendeth his resurrection, ascension, sitting at the right hand of the Father, and his coming again to judge the world.

Q. How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?
A. Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death, (of which it was not possible for him to be held,) and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof, (but without mortality, and other common infirmities belonging to this life,) really united to his soul, he rose again from the dead the third day by his own power; whereby he declared himself to be the Son of God, to have satisfied divine justice, to have vanquished death, and him that had the power of it, and to be Lord of quick and dead: all which he did as a public person, the head of his church, for their justification, quickening in grace, support against enemies, and to assure them of their resurrection from the dead at the last day.

(Questions L, LI and LII of the Westminster Larger Catechism.)

Q59 What is the second commandment?
A. You must not make for yourself any idol, nor worship nor serve it.

Q.58. What does the second commandment teach us?
A. To worship God in the right way, and to avoid idolatry.

Q55 What is the first commandment?
A You must not have any other gods before me.

Q56 What does the first commandment teach us?
A To worship God only.

Q.53. Is God pleased with those who love and obey him?
A. Yes; he says “I love them that love me.”

Q.54. Is God displeased with those who do not love and obey him?
A. Yes, “God is angry with the wicked every day.”

Q. How did Christ humble himself in his death?

A. Christ humbled himself in his death, in that having been betrayed by Judas, forsaken by his disciples, scorned and rejected by the world, condemned by Pilate, and tormented by his persecutors; having also conflicted with the terrors of death, and the powers of darkness, felt and borne the weight of God’s wrath, he laid down his life an offering for sin, enduring the painful, shameful, and cursed death of the cross.

(Question XLIX of the Westminster Larger Catechism.)

Q.46. What is glorification?
A. It is God making sinners perfect in body and soul at the resurrection.

Q45 What benefits come from justification, adoption and sanctification?

A The benefits are assurance of God’s love, peace, joy and perseverance to the end.

Q. What was the estate of Christ’s humiliation?
A. The estate of Christ’s humiliation was that low condition, wherein he for our sakes, emptying himself of his glory, took upon him the form of a servant, in his conception and birth, life, death, and after his death, until his resurrection.

Q. How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
A. Christ humbled himself in his conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, he was pleased in the fulness of time to become the son of man, made of a woman of low estate, and to be born of her; with divers circumstances of more than ordinary abasement.

Q. How did Christ humble himself in his life?
A. Christ humbled himself in his life, by subjecting himself to the law, which he perfectly fulfilled; and by conflicting with the indignities of the world, temptations of Satan, and infirmities in his flesh, whether common to the nature of man, or particularly accompanying that his low condition.

(Questions XLVI, XLVII and XLVIII of the Westminster Larger Catechism.)

Q.44. What is sanctification?
A. It is God making sinners holy in heart and conduct.

Q.43. What is adoption?
A. It is God taking sinners into his family and treating them as his children.

Q.42. What is justification?
A. It is God forgiving sinners, and treating them as righteous, for the sake of Christ.

Q. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?

A. Christ executeth the office of a king, in calling out of the world a people to himself, and giving them officers, laws, and censures, by which he visibly governs them; in bestowing saving grace upon his elect, rewarding their obedience, and correcting them for their sins, preserving and supporting them under all their temptations and sufferings, restraining and overcoming all their enemies, and powerfully ordering all things for his own glory, and their good; and also in taking vengeance on the rest, who know not God, and obey not the gospel.

(Question XLV of the Westminster Larger Catechism.)

Q. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?

A. Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering himself a sacrifice without spot to God, to be reconciliation for the sins of his people; and in making continual intercession for them.

(Question XLIV of the Westminster Larger Catechism.)

Q. Why was our Mediator called Christ?
A. Our Mediator was called Christ, because he was anointed with the Holy Ghost above measure, and so set apart, and fully furnished with all authority and ability, to execute the offices of prophet, priest, and king of his church, in the estate both of his humiliation and exaltation.

Q. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A. Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in his revealing to the church, in all ages, by his Spirit and Word, in divers ways of administration, the whole will of God, in all things concerning their edification and salvation.

(Questions XLII and XLIII of the Westminster Larger Catechism.)