CATECHISM · 1695 AD · PARTICULAR BAPTIST

1695 Baptist Catechism

WRITTEN

1695 AD

TRADITION

Particular Baptist

QUESTIONS

114

PROOF-TEXTS

489

QUOTED IN THE BEREAN TEXT

19

19 quotations in this document are given in the Berean Standard Bible. 23 more are left in the document's own older wording, each marked where it stands.

CONTENTS

QUESTION 1

Who is the First and Chiefest Being?

God is the First and Chiefest Being

Isaiah 44:6

Isaiah 48:12

QUESTION 2

Ought every One to believe there is a God?

Every One ought to believe there is a God; and it is their great Sin and Folly who do not.

Hebrews 11:6

Psalms 14:1

QUESTION 3

How may we know there is a God?

The Light of Nature in Man, and the Works of God plainly declare there is a God; but his Word and Spirit only, do it fully and effectually, for the Salvation of Sinners.

Romans 1:19–20

Psalms 19:1–3

Acts 17:24

1 Corinthians 2:10

2 Timothy 3:15–16

QUESTION 4

What is the Word of God?

The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, and the only certain Rule of Faith and Obedience.

2 Timothy 3:16

Ephesians 2:20

QUESTION 5

May all Men make use of the Holy Scriptures?

All Men are not only permitted, but commanded and exhorted, to read, hear, and understand the Holy Scriptures.

John 5:39

Deuteronomy 17:18–19

Revelation 1:3

Acts 8:30

QUESTION 6

What things are chiefly contained in the Holy Scriptures?

The Holy Scriptures chiefly contain, what Man ought to believe concerning God, and what Duty God requireth of Man.

2 Timothy 1:13

2 Timothy 3:15–16

QUESTION 7

What is God?

God is a Spirit, Infinite, Eternal, and Unchangeable, in his Being, Wisdom, Power, Holiness, Justice, Goodness and Truth.

John 4:24

Job 11:7–9

Psalms 90:2

James 1:17

Exodus 3:14

Psalms 147:5

Revelation 4:8

Revelation 15:4

Exodus 34:6–7

QUESTION 8

Are there more Gods than One?

There is but One only, the Living and True God.

Deuteronomy 6:4

Jeremiah 10:10

QUESTION 9

How many Persons are there in the Godhead?

There are Three Persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and these Three are One God, the same in Essence, equal in Power and Glory.

1 John 5:7

Matthew 28:19

QUESTION 10

What are the Decrees of God?

The Decrees of God are, his Eternal Purpose according to the Counsel of his Will, whereby, for his own Glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.

Ephesians 1:4

Ephesians 1:11

Romans 9:22–23

QUESTION 11

How doth God execute his Decrees?

God executeth his Decrees in the Works of Creation and Providence

QUESTION 12

What is the Work of Creation?

The Work of Creation, is God's making all Things of Nothing, by the Word of his Power, in the space of six Days, and all very Good.

Genesis 1

Hebrews 11:3

QUESTION 13

How did God create Man?

God created Man, Male and Female, after his own Image, in Knowledge, Righteousness and Holiness, with Dominion over the Creatures.

Genesis 1:26–28

Colossians 3:10

Ephesians 4:24

QUESTION 14

What are God's Works of Providence?

God's Works of Providence, are his most Holy, Wise, and Powerful preserving, and governing all his Creatures, and all their Actions.

Psalms 145:17

Psalms 104:24

Isaiah 28:29

Hebrews 1:3

Psalms 103:19

Matthew 10:29–31

QUESTION 15

What special Act of Providence did God exercise towards Man in the Estate wherein he was created?

When God had created Man, he entered into a Covenant of Life with him, upon Condition of perfect Obedience: forbidding him to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, upon pain of Death.

Galatians 3:12

Genesis 2:17

QUESTION 16

Did our first Parents continue in the Estate wherein they were created?

Our first Parents being left to the freedom of their own Will, fell from the Estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

Genesis 3:6–8

Genesis 3:13

Ecclesiastes 7:29

QUESTION 17

What is Sin?

Sin is any want of Conformity unto, or Transgression of the Law of God.

1 John 3:4

QUESTION 18

What was the Sin whereby our first Parents fell from the Estate wherein they were created?

The Sin whereby our first Parents fell from the Estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden Fruit.

Genesis 3:6

Genesis 3:12

QUESTION 19

Did all Mankind fall in Adam's first Transgression?

The Covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his Posterity, all Mankind descending from him by ordinary Generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first Transgression.

Genesis 2:16–17

Romans 5:12

1 Corinthians 15:21–22

QUESTION 20

Into what Estate did the Fall bring Mankind?

The Fall brought Mankind into an Estate of Sin and Misery.

Romans 5:12

QUESTION 21

Wherein consists the sinfulness of that Estate whereinto Man fell?

The sinfulness of that Estate whereinto Man fell, consists in the Guilt of Adam's first Sin, the want of Original Righteousness, and the Corruption of his whole Nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all actual Transgressions which proceed from it.

Romans 5:12–21

Ephesians 2:1–3

James 1:14–15

Matthew 15:19

QUESTION 22

What is the Misery of that Estate whereinto Man fell?

All Mankind by their Fall lost Communion with God, are under his Wrath and Curse; and so make liable to all Miseries in this Life, to Death it self, and to the Pains of Hell for ever.

Genesis 3:8

Genesis 3:10

Genesis 3:24

Ephesians 2:2–3

Galatians 3:10

Lamentations 3:39

Romans 6:23

Matthew 25:41–46

QUESTION 23

Did God leave all Mankind to perish in the Estate of Sin and Misery?

God, having out of his meer good pleasure, from all Eternity, elected some to Everlasting Life, did enter into a Covenant of Grace, to deliver them out of the Estate of Sin and Misery, and to bring them into an Estate of Salvation by a Redeemer.

Ephesians 1:4–5

Romans 3:20–22

Galatians 3:21–22

QUESTION 24

Who is the Redeemer of God's Elect?

The only Redeemer of God's Elect, is the Lord Jesus Christ; who being the Eternal Son of God, became Man, and so was; and continueth to be God and Man, in two distinct Natures, and one Person for ever.

1 Timothy 2:5–6

John 1:14

Galatians 4:4

Romans 9:5

Luke 1:23

Colossians 2:9

Hebrews 7:24–25

QUESTION 25

How did Christ, being the Son of God, become Man?

Christ the Son of God became Man, by taking to himself a true Body, and a reasonable Soul; being conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit in the Womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without Sin.

Hebrews 2:14

Hebrews 2:16

Hebrews 10:5

Matthew 26:38

Luke 1:27

Luke 1:31

Luke 1:34–35

Luke 1:42

Galatians 4:4

Hebrews 4:15

Hebrews 7:26

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