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Westminster Larger Catechism
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How is justification an act of God's free grace?
… justification but faith, which also is his gift, their justification is to them of free grace.
What are the decrees of God?
God's decrees are the wise, free, and holy acts of the counsel of his will, whereby, from all eternity, he …
How doth God execute his decrees?
… in the works of creation and providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will.
What is effectual calling?
… calling is the work of God's almighty power and grace, whereby (out of his free and special love to his elect, and from nothing in them moving him thereunto …
What is justification?
Justification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their …
What is adoption?
Adoption is an act of the free grace of God, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, whereby all those …
Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?
… former, sin is pardoned; in the other, it is subdued: the one doth equally free all believers from the revenging wrath of God, and that perfectly in this life, …
Death, being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?
… it; so that, although they die, yet it is out of God's love, to free them perfectly from sin and misery, and to make them capable of further communion …
How is the sabbath or the Lord's day to be sanctified?
… to dispose and seasonably dispatch our worldly business, that we may be the more free and fit for the duties of that day.
What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
… God; aggravating smaller faults; hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession; unnecessary discovering of infirmities; raising false rumors, receiving and countenancing evil reports, and …
What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
… God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may, of his free gift, and as to his fatherly wisdom shall seem best, enjoy a competent portion …
What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
… satisfaction for that debt: we pray for ourselves and others, that God of his free grace would, through the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, apprehended and applied by faith, …