CATECHISM · 1840 AD · REFORMED (PRESBYTERIAN)

Catechism For Young Children

WRITTEN

1840 AD

TRADITION

Reformed (Presbyterian)

QUESTIONS

145

This document's quotations are left in its own older wording — 11 of them, each marked where it stands. Its proof-text references are shown in the Berean Standard Bible.

CONTENTS

QUESTION 1

Who made you?

God.

QUESTION 2

What else did God make?

God made all things.

QUESTION 3

Why did God make you and all things?

For his own glory.

QUESTION 4

How can you glorify God?

By loving him and doing what he commands.

QUESTION 5

Why ought you to glorify God?

Because he made me and takes care of me.

QUESTION 6

Are there more gods than one?

There is only one God.

QUESTION 7

In how many persons does this one God exist?

In three persons.

QUESTION 8

What are they?

The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

QUESTION 9

What is God?

God is a Spirit, and has not a body like men.

QUESTION 10

Where is God?

God is everywhere.

QUESTION 11

Can you see God?

No; I cannot see God, but he always sees me.

QUESTION 12

Does God know all things?

Yes; nothing can be hid from God.

QUESTION 13

Can God do all things?

Yes; God can do all his holy will.

QUESTION 14

Where do you learn how to love and obey God?

In the Bible alone.

QUESTION 15

Who wrote the Bible?

Holy men who were taught by the Holy Ghost.

QUESTION 16

Who were our first parents?

Adam and Eve.

QUESTION 17

Of what were our first parents made?

God made the body of Adam out of the ground, and formed Eve from the body of Adam.

QUESTION 18

What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?

He gave them souls that could never die.

QUESTION 19

Have you a soul as well as a body?

Yes; I have a soul that can never die.

QUESTION 20

How do you know that you have a soul?

Because I can think about God and the world to come.

QUESTION 21

In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?

He made them holy and happy.

QUESTION 22

What is a covenant?

An agreement between two or more persons.

QUESTION 23

What covenant did God make with Adam?

The covenant of works.

QUESTION 24

What was Adam bound to do by the covenant of works?

To obey God perfectly.

QUESTION 25

What did God promise in the covenant of works?

To reward Adam with life if he obeyed him.

THIS TEXT AND ITS SOURCES

• Berean Standard Bible Public domain

The document's own wording is unchanged apart from the quoted verses described above. Its proof-text references were resolved against this site's own copy of the Berean Standard Bible; the references it does not carry would be shown as references with no verse words.

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