WLC 102
Westminster Larger Catechism
Q102. What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God?
The sum of the four commandments containing our duty to God is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind.
Proof texts
- Luke 10:27 — [27] And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
For discussion
- The Assembly cited Luke 10:27 in support of this answer. Read it in context — how does it bear on what is claimed here?
- WSC Q45 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
- HC Q92 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?
- 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?
Read alongside
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…