WLC 100

Westminster Larger Catechism

Q100. What special things are we to consider in the ten commandments?

We are to consider, in the ten commandments, the preface, the substance of the commandments themselves, and several reasons annexed to some of them, the more to enforce them.

For discussion

  1. WSC Q45 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
  2. HC Q92 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
  3. The Assembly divided over this: Justification and the Antinomian Crisis. How do you secure sola fide without letting the law fall away? What turns on the answer?
  4. The Assembly divided over this: The Third Use of the Moral Law. Does the moral law remain the rule of life for the regenerate? What turns on the answer?

Read alongside

WSC Q45 · HC Q92

Leader's notes

A Body of Divinity (Thomas Ridgley): Quest. C., CI., CII. QUEST. C. What special things are we to consider in the Ten Commandments? ANSW. We are to consider in the Ten Commandments, the preface, the substance of the Commandments themselves, and several reasons annexed to some of them, the more to inforce them. QUEST. CI. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments. ANSW. The preface to the Commandments is contained in these words [I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage] wherein God manifesteth his sovereignty, as being Jehovah, the eternal, immutable, and almighty God, having his being in and of himself, and giving being to all his words, and works…