f God’s free grace, (f) whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, (g) and live unto righteousness. (h)
f 2 Thess. 2:13 g Eph. 4:23, 24 h Rom. 6:4,6; 8:1
Q. 39. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, (i) joy in the Holy Spirit, (j) increase of grace,k and perseverance therein to the end. (l)
i Rom. 5:1, 2, 5 j Rom. 5:5, 17 k Pr. 4:18 l 1 John 5:13; 1 Pet. 1:5
Q. 40. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?
A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, (m) and do immediately pass into glory; (n) and their bodies being still united to Christ, (o) do rest in their graves (p) till the resurrection. (q)
m Heb. 12:23 n 2 Cor. 5:1, 6, 8; Phil. 1:23; Luke 23:43 o 1 Thess. 4:14 p Is. 57:2 q Job 19:26, 27
Q. 41. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A. At the resurrection believers, being raised up in glory, (r) shall be openly acknowledged, and acquitted in the day of judgment; (s) and made perfectly blessed, both in soul and body, in the full enjoyment of God (t) to all eternity. (u)
r 1 Cor. 15:43 s Mt. 25:23; 10:32 t 1 John 3:2; 1 Cor. 13:12 u 1 Thess. 4:17, 18
Q. 42. But 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, and their bodies lie in their graves, till the resurrection and judgment of the great day. (v)
v Luke 16:23, 24; Acts 2:24; Jude 5, 7; 1 Pet. 3:19; Ps. 49:14
Q. 43. What shall be done to the wicked, at the day of judgment?
A. At the day of judgment the bodies of the wicked, being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever. (w)
w John 5:28, 29; Mt. 25:41, 46; 2 Thess. 1:8, 9
Man’s Duty to God’s Law
Q. 44. What is the duty which God requireth of man?
A. The duty which God requireth of man is, obedience to his revealed will. (x)
x Mic 6:8; 1 Sam. 15:22
Q. 45. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law. (y)
y Rom. 2; 14, 15, and 10:5
Q. 46. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments. (z)
z Deut. 10:4; Mt. 19:17
Q. 47. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?
A. The sum of the Ten Commandments is, to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves. (a)
a Mt. 22:37-40
Q. 48. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?
A. The preface to the Ten Commandments is in these words; I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. (b)
b Ex. 20:2
Q. 49. What doth the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us?
A. The preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us that because God is the Lord, and our God and redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments. (c)
c Luke 1:74, 75; 1 Pet. 1:15-19
Q. 50. Which is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (d)
d Ex. 20:3
Q. 51. What is required in the first commandment?
A. The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God and our God, (e) and to worship and glorify him accordingly. (f)
e 1 Chron. 28:9; Deut. 26:17 f Mt. 4:10; Ps. 29:2
Q. 52. What is forbidden in the first commandment?
A. The first commandment forbiddeth the denying, (g) or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, (h) as God and our God, (i) and the giving of that worship and glory to any other, which is due unto him alone. (j)
g Ps. 14: 1 h Rom. 1:21 i Ps. 81:10, 11 j Rom. 1:25, 26
Q. 53. What are we especially taught by these words before me, in the first co