Q. 30. How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchafed by Chrift?

A. The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Chrift in our effectual calling.

Q. 31 What is effectual calling?

A. Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our fin and mifery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Chrift, and renewing our will, he doth perfuade and enable us to embrace Jefus Chrift, freely offered to us in the gospel.

Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?

A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the feveral benefits which, in this life, do either accompany, or flow from them.

Q. 33. What is juftification?

A. Juftification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our fins, and accepteth us as righteous in his fight, only for the righteoufness of Chrift imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

Q. 34. What is adoption?

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A. Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the fons of God.

Q. 35. What is fanctification?

A. San&ification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto fin, and live unto righteoufnefs.

Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life. do accompany or flow from juftification, adoption, and fanctification?

A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from juftification, adoption and fanctification, are, affurance of God's love, peace of confcience, joy in the Holy Ghoft, increafe of grace, and perfeverance therein to the end.

Q37. What benefits do believers receive from Chrift at their death?

A. The fouls of believers are, at their death, made perfect in holinefs, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being ftill united to Christ, do reft in their graves till the refurrection.

Q. 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the refurrection?

A. At the refurrection, believers, being raifed up to glory, fhall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly bleffed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.

Q. 39. What is the duty which God requireth of man ?

A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.

Q. 40. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?

A. The rule which God at firft revealed to man, for his obedience, was the moral law.

Q. 41. Wherein is the moral law fummarily comprehended?

A. The moral law is fummarily comprehended in the ten commandments.

Q. 42. What is the fum of the ten commandinents? A. The fum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our foul, with all our ftrength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves.

Q. 43. 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 brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the houfe of bondage.

Q.44. What doth the preface to the ten command

ments 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.

Q. 45. Which is the first commandment ?

A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.

Q. 46. 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; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.

Q. 47. What is forbidden in the first commandment?

A. The firft commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God, and our God; and the giving that worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone.

Q. 48. What are we specially taught by thefe words (Before me) in the first commandment?

A. These words (Before me) in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who feeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much difpleafed with, the fin of having any other God.

Q. 49. Which is the fecond commandment?

A. The fecond commandment is, Thou fhalt: not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyfelf to them, nor ferve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vifiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and fhewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments

Q. 50. What is required in the fecond command ment ?

A. The fecond commandment requireth the receiving, obferving and keeping pure and entire, all fuch religious worship and ordinances, as Godi hath appointed in his word.

Q. 51. What is forbidden in the fecond com mandment?

A. The fecond commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his word.

Q. 52. What are the reafons annexed to the second? commandment?

A. The reasons annexed to the fecond com mandment are, God's fovereignty over us, his propriety in us, and the zeal, he hath to his own worship.