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Week 1

Genesis 1

John 1

John 2

Ecclesiastes 1

John 3

John 4

John 5

 

Q. What is the chief end of man?

 

A. Man's chief end is to glorify God (1 Cor. 10:31), and to enjoy him for ever (Ps. 73:25-26).

 

Week 2

Genesis 2

John 6

John 7

Ecclesiastes 2

John 8

John 9

John 10

 

Q. What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him?

 

A. The Word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (Eph. 2:20; 2 Tim. 3:16) is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify God and enjoy him (1 Jn. 1:3).

 

Week 3

Genesis 3

John 11

John 12

Ecclesiastes 3

John 13

John 14

John 15

 

Q. What do the Scriptures principally teach?

 

A. The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man (2 Tim. 1:13; Eccl. 12:13).

 

Week 4

Genesis 4

John 16

John 17

Ecclesiastes 4

John 18

John 19

John 20

 

Q. What is God?

 

A. God is Spirit (Jn. 4:24), infinite (Job 11:7), eternal (Ps. 90:2; 1 Tim. 1:17), and unchangeable (Jas. 1:17) in his being (Exod. 3:14), wisdom, power (Ps. 147:5), holiness (Rev. 4:8), justice, goodness and truth (Exod. 34:6-7).

 

Week 5

Genesis 5

John 21

1 Corinthians 1

Ecclesiastes 5

1 Corinthians 2

1 Corinthians 3

1 Corinthians 4

 

Q. Are there more Gods than one?

 

A. There is but one only (Deut. 6:4), the living and true God (Jer. 10:10).

 

Week 6

Genesis 6

1 Corinthians 5

1 Corinthians 6

Ecclesiastes 6

1 Corinthians 7

1 Corinthians 8

1 Corinthians 9

 

Q. How many persons are there in the Godhead?

 

A. There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one God, the same in essence, equal in power and glory (1 Jn. 5:7; Matt. 28:19).

 

Week 7

Genesis 7

1 Corinthians 10

1 Corinthians 11

Ecclesiastes 7

1 Corinthians 12

1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 14

 

Q. What are the decrees of God?

 

A. The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his own will, whereby for his own glory he has foreordained whatever comes to pass (Eph. 1:11-12).

 

Week 8

Genesis 8

1 Corinthians 15

1 Corinthians 16

Ecclesiastes 8

2 Corinthians 1

2 Corinthians 2

2 Corinthians 3

 

Q. How does God execute his decrees?

 

A. God executes his decrees in the works of creation (Rev. 4:11), and providence (Dan. 4:35).

 

Week 9

Genesis 9

2 Corinthians 4

2 Corinthians 5

Ecclesiastes 9

2 Corinthians 6

2 Corinthians 7

2 Corinthians 8

 

Q. What is the work of creation?

 

A. The work of creation is God's making all things (Gen. 1:1) of nothing, by the Word of his power (Heb. 11:3), in six normal consecutive days (Exod. 20:11), and all very good (Gen. 1:31).

 

Week 10

Genesis 10

2 Corinthians 9

2 Corinthians 10

Ecclesiastes 10

2 Corinthians 11

2 Corinthians 12

2 Corinthians 13

 

Q. How did God create man?

 

A. God created man, male and female, after his own image (Gen. 1:27), in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness (Col 3:10; Eph. 4:24) with dominion over the creatures (Gen. 1:28).

 

Week 11

Genesis 11

Luke 1

Luke 2

Ecclesiastes 11

Luke 3

Luke 4

Luke 5

 

Q. What are God's works of providence?

 

A. God's works of providence are his most holy (Ps. 145:17), wise, (Isa. 28:29) and powerful (Heb. 1:3), preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions (Ps. 103:19; Matt. 10:29).

 

Week 12

Genesis 12

Luke 6

Luke 7

Ecclesiastes 12

Luke 8

Luke 9

Luke 10

 

Q. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created?

 

A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; (Gal. 3:12) forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death. (Gen. 2:17)

 

Week 13

Genesis 13

Luke 11

Luke 12

Song of Solomon 1

Luke 13

Luke 14

Luke 15

 

Q. Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were created?

 

A. Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the state wherein they were created, by sinning against God, (Eccl. 7:29) by eating the forbidden fruit (Gen. 3:6-8).

 

Week 14

Genesis 14

Luke 16

Luke 17

Song of Solomon 2

Luke 18

Luke 19

Luke 20

 

Q. What is sin?

 

A. Sin is any want of conformity to, or transgression of the law of God (1 Jn. 3:4).

 

Week 15

Genesis 15

Luke 21

Luke 22

Song of Solomon 3

Luke 23

Luke 24

Hebrews 1

 

Q. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

 

A. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression (1 Cor. 15:22; Rom. 5:12).

 

Week 16

Genesis 16

Hebrews 2

Hebrews 3

Song of Solomon 4

Hebrews 4

Hebrews 5

Hebrews 6

 

Q. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?

 

A. The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery (Rom. 5:18).

 

Week 17

Genesis 17

Hebrews 7

Hebrews 8

Song of Solomon 5

Hebrews 9

Hebrews 10

Hebrews 11

 

Q. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?

 

A. The sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin (Rom. 5:19), the want of original righteousness, (Rom. 3:10) and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin (Eph. 2:1; Ps. 51:5), together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it (Matt. 15:19).

 

Week 18

Genesis 18

Hebrews 12

Hebrews 13

Song of Solomon 6

James 1

James 2

James 3

 

Q. What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?

 

A. All mankind, by their fall, lost communion with God (Gen. 3:8, 24), are under his wrath and curse (Eph. 2:3; Gal. 3:10), and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever (Rom. 6:23; Matt. 25:41).

 

Week 19

Genesis 19

James 4

James 5

Song of Solomon 7

1 Peter 1

1 Peter 2

1 Peter 3

 

Q. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?

 

A. God having, out of his good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life (2 Thess. 2:13), did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer (Rom. 5:21).

Week 20

Genesis 20

1 Peter 4

1 Peter 5

Song of Solomon 8

2 Peter 1

2 Peter 2

2 Peter 3

 

Q. Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?

 

A. The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Tim. 2:5), who being the eternal Son of God, became man (Jn. 1:14), and so was and continues to be God and man, in two distinct natures and one person for ever (1 Tim. 3:16; Col. 2:9).

 

Week 21

Genesis 21

1 John 1

1 John 2

Proverbs 1

1 John 3

1 John 4

1 John 5

 

Q. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

 

A. Christ, the son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body (Heb. 2:14), and a reasonable soul (Matt. 26:38; Heb. 4:15), being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary, and born of her (Lk. 1:31, 35), yet without sin (Heb. 7:26).

 

Week 22

Genesis 22

2 John

3 John

Proverbs 2

Acts 1

Acts 2

Acts 3

 

Q. What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?

 

A. Christ as our Redeemer executes the offices of a prophet (Acts 3:22), of a priest (Heb. 5:6), and of a king (Ps. 2:6), both in his state of humiliation and exaltation.

 

Week 23

Genesis 23

Acts 4

Acts 5

Proverbs 3

Acts 6

Acts 7

Acts 8

 

Q. How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?

 

A. Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us (Jn. 1:18), by his Word (Jn. 20:31), and Spirit (Jn. 14:26), the will of God for our salvation.

 

Week 24

Genesis 24

Acts 9

Acts 10

Proverbs 4

Acts 11

Acts 12

Acts 13

 

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

 

A. Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice (Heb. 9:28), and to reconcile us to God (Heb. 2:17), and in making continual intercession for us (Heb. 7:25).

 

Week 25

Genesis 25

Acts 14

Acts 15

Proverbs 5

Acts 16

Acts 17

Acts 18

 

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

 

A. Christ executes the office of a king in subduing us to himself, (Ps. 110:3) in ruling and defending us (Matt. 2:6; 1 Cor. 15:25), and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.

 

Week 26

Genesis 26

Acts 19

Acts 20

Proverbs 6

Acts 21

Acts 22

Acts 23

 

Q. Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?

 

A. Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition (Lk. 2:7), made under the law (Gal. 4:4), undergoing the miseries of this life (Isa. 53:3), the wrath of God (Matt. 27:46), and the cursed death of the cross; (Phil. 2:8) in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time (Matt. 12:40).

 

Week 27

Genesis 27

Acts 24

Acts 25

Proverbs 7

Acts 26

Acts 27

Acts 28

 

Q. Wherein consists Christ's exaltation?

 

A. Christ's exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day (1 Cor. 15:4), in ascending up into heaven, and sitting at the right hand of God the Father (Mk. 16:19), and in coming to judge the world at the last day (Acts 17:31).

 

Week 28

Genesis 28

Romans 1

Romans 2

Proverbs 8

Romans 3

Romans 4

Romans 5

 

Q. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?

 

A. We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us (Jn. 1:12) by his Holy Spirit. (Tit. 3:5-6)

 

Week 29

Genesis 29

Romans 6

Romans 7

Proverbs 9

Romans 8

Romans 9

Romans 10

 

Q. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?

 

A. The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us (Eph. 2:8), and by it uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling (Eph. 3:17).

 

Week 30

Genesis 30

Romans 11

Romans 12

Proverbs 10

Romans 13

Romans 14

Romans 15

 

Q. What is effectual calling?

 

A. Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit (2 Tim. 1:9) whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery (Acts 2:37), enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ (Acts 26:18), and renewing our wills (Ezek. 36:26), he does persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the gospel (Jn. 6:44-45).

 

Week 31

Genesis 31

Romans 16

Galatians 1

Proverbs 11

Galatians 2

Galatians 3

Galatians 4

 

Q. What benefits do they who are effectually called, partake of in this life?

 

A. They who are effectually called, do in this life partake of justification (Rom. 8:30), adoption (Eph. 1:5), sanctification, and the various benefits which in this life do either accompany, or flow from them (1 Cor. 1:30).

 

Week 32

Genesis 32

Galatians 5

Galatians 6

Proverbs 12

Revelation 1

Revelation 2

Revelation 3

 

Q. What is justification?

 

A. Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins (Rom. 3:24; Eph. 1:7), and accepts us as righteous in his sight (2 Cor. 5:21) only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us (Rom. 5:19), and received by faith alone (Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9).

 

Week 33

Genesis 33

Revelation 4

Revelation 5

Proverbs 13

Revelation 6

Revelation 7

Revelation 8

 

Q. What is adoption?

 

A. Adoption is an act of God's free grace (1 Jn. 3:1), whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God (Jn. 1:12; Rom. 8:17).

 

Week 34

Genesis 34

Revelation 9

Revelation 10

Proverbs 14

Revelation 11

Revelation 12

Revelation 13

 

Q. What is sanctification?

 

A. Sanctification is the work of God's Spirit (2 Thess. 2:13), whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God (Eph. 4:24), and are enabled more and more to die to sin, and live to righteousness (Rom. 6:11).

 

Week 35

Genesis 35

Revelation 14

Revelation 15

Proverbs 15

Revelation 16

Revelation 17

Revelation 18

 

Q. What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

 

A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification (Rom. 5:1-2, 5), are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17), increase of grace, perseverance in it to the end (Prov. 4:18; 1 Jn. 5:13; 1 Pet. 1:5).

 

Week 36

Genesis 36

Revelation 19

Revelation 20

Proverbs 16

Revelation 21

Revelation 22

Ephesians 1

 

Q. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?

 

A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness (Heb. 12:23 and do immediately pass into glory, (Phil. 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:8; Lk. 23:43), and their bodies, being still united to Christ (1 Thess. 4:14), do rest in their graves (Isa. 57:2) till the resurrection (Job 19:26).

 

Week 37

Genesis 37

Ephesians 2

Ephesians 3

Proverbs 17

Ephesians 4

Ephesians 5

Ephesians 6

 

Q. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

 

A. At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory (1 Cor. 15:43), shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment (Matt. 10:32), and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body in the full enjoying of God (1 Jn. 3:2) to all eternity (1 Thess. 4:17).

 

Week 38

Genesis 38

Matthew 1

Matthew 2

Proverbs 18

Matthew 3

Matthew 4

Matthew 5

 

Q. What shall be done to the wicked at their death?

 

A. The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell (Lk. 16:22-24), and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection, and judgement of the great day (Ps. 49:14).

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