The shorter catechism (Volume 1) : Questions 1 Through 38

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What is the duty which God requireth of man? -- What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? -- Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? -- What is the sum of the ten commandments? -- What is the preface to the ten commandments? -- What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us? -- What is the first commandment? -- What is required in the first commandment? -- What is forbidden in the first commandment? -- What are we specially taught by these words (before me) in the first commandment? -- What is the second commandment? -- What is required in the second commandment? -- What is forbidden in the second commandment? -- What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment? -- What is the third commandment? -- What is required in the third commandment? -- What is forbidden in the third commandment? What is the reason annexed to the third commandment? -- What is the fourth commandment? -- What is required in the fourth commandment? Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath? How is the Sabbath to be sanctified? -- What is forbidden by the fourth commandment? -- What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment? Etc. -- Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? -- Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous? -- What doth every sin deserve? -- What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin? -- What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? -- How is the word made effectual to salvation? -- How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? -- How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? -- What is a sacrament? -- Which are the sacraments of the New Testament? -- What is baptism? -- To whom is baptism to be administered? -- What is the Lord's supper? -- What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper? -- What is prayer? -- What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer? -- What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us? -- What do we pray for in the first petition? Etc.