INTRODUCTION
A. Your only comfort of man in life
and death, Q 1
B. The three necessary conditions
for apprehending this comfort: divisions, Q 2
1.
(Guilt / Sin) Man’s misery (Q 3—11)
2.
(Grace / Salvation) Man’s deliverance (Q 12—85)
3.
(Gratitude / Sanctification) Man’s gratitude for this deliverance (Q 86—129)
I. THE FIRST PART: MAN’S MISERY (GUILT / SIN)
A. The source of the knowledge of
man’s misery (Q 3—5)
1.
The pedagogical work of the law, Q 3
2.
The requirements of the law, Q 4
3.
Man’s moral inability to keep the law, Q 5
B. The creation of man, Q 6
C. The origin of human depravity, Q
7
D. The extent of human depravity, Q
8
E. The responsibility of man, Q 9
F. The punishment of sin (Q 10—11)
1.
God’s righteous judgment of sin, Q 10
2.
The mercy and justice of God, Q 11
II. THE SECOND PART: MAN’S DELIVERANCE (GRACE / SALVATION)
A. The deliverance of man, (Q 12—14)
1.
God’s justice must be satisfied, Q 12
2.
The human inability to make such a satisfaction, Q 13
3.
No creature whatever able to make satisfaction, Q 14
B. The only Mediator between God
and man, the Lord Jesus Christ (Q 15—18)
1.
The sort of mediator required, Q 15
2.
Of human nature, perfectly righteous, Q 16
3.
Of divine nature, necessary, Q 17
4.
Identity of the Mediator, Q 18
C. The Holy Gospel, Q 19
D. The extent of our salvation in
the Lord Jesus Christ, Q 20
E. True faith, Q 21
F. The Apostles’ Creed (Q 22—58)
1.
The irreducible essentials of the Faith, Q 22
2.
The Creed, twelve articles, Q 23
3.
The Creed, its tripartite divisions, Q 24
G. The Holy Trinity, Q 25
1. God the Father,
Q 26
a. The Providence
of God, Q 27
b. The benefits
of divine Providence, Q 28
2. God the Son;
His name Jesus, Q 29
a. His title
Christ, Q 31
i. As Prophet
ii. As Priest
iii. As King
b. The name
Christians, Q 32
c. Jesus, Son of
God; Christians, sons of God, Q 33
d. His title
Lord, Q 34
e. His assumption
of human nature (Q 35—36)
i. His virginal conception, Q 35
ii. How his virginal conception profits
us, Q 36
f. His
sufferings, death, and burial (Q 37—43)
i. That he “suffered,” Q 37
ii. The judgment under “Pontius
Pilate,” Q 38
iii. Significance of “crucified, Q
39
iv. Necessity of suffering “unto
death,” Q 40
v. That he was “buried,” Q 41
vi. Why Christians still suffer
death, Q 42
vii. Benefits of Jesus’ cross-work,
Q 43
g. His descent
into hell, Q 44
h. His resurrection
from the dead, Q 45
i. His ascension
into heaven (Q 46—49)
i. His ascension, Q 46
ii. Christ’s
presence unto the end of the age, Q 47
iii. Christ’s two
natures, respecting his presence, Q 48
iv. How Christ’s
ascension profits us, Q 49
j. His sitting at
the right hand of God (Q 50—51)
i. Christ at God’s “right hand,” Q
50
ii. How Christ’s exaltation unto
glory profits us, Q 51
k. His coming
again to judge the quick and the dead, Q 52
3. God the Holy
Ghost, Q 53
4. The Christian
Church, Q 54
5. The Communion
of Saints, Q 56
6. The Resurrection
of the Body, Q 57
7. Eternal Life, Q
58
H. Man’s Justification (Q 59—64)
1.
How wholehearted belief in the articles of the Creed profits us, Q 59
2.
How we are righteous before God: faith only, Q 60
a.
Why righteousness is by faith only, Q 61
b.
Why good works cannot ground our righteousness before God, Q 62
c.
Of good works and rewards, Q 63
d.
Does justification by faith only lead to antinomianism, Q 64
I. The Holy Sacraments (Q 65—68)
1.
The source of this saving faith, Q 65
2.
What are the sacraments, Q 66
3.
Christ’s cross-work the object of the sacraments, Q 67
4.
The number of sacraments instituted by Christ, Q 68
5. Baptism (Q 69—74)
a. How baptism assures us of our
apprehension of Christ’s benefits, Q 69
i. What it means to be
washed by Christ’s blood and Spirit, Q 70
ii. The promise of
baptism, Q 71
b. The efficacy of the external rite
and elements, Q 72
c. The biblical language of baptism,
Q 73
d. The question of paedobaptism, Q
74
2. The Lord’s
Supper (Q 75—82)
a. How the Lord’s Supper assures us
of Christ’s benefits to us, Q 75
i. What the eating and
drinking signify, Q 76
ii. The promise of the
Lord’s Supper, Q 77
b. The real substance of the
elements, Q 78
c. The biblical language concerning
the Lord’s Supper, Q 79
d. The Lord’s Supper and the Romish
mass delineated, Q 80
i. For whom the Lord’s
Supper was instituted, Q 81
ii. The characteristics
of those unworthy to partake, Q 82
J. The Keys of the Kingdom of
Heaven (Q 83—85)
1.
The constitution of the keys of the Kingdom, Q 83
i.
The preaching of the gospel
ii.
Church discipline
2.
How the Kingdom if open and closed through the gospel, Q 84
3.
How the Kingdom is open and closed through discipline, Q 85
III. THE THIRD PART: THANKFULNESS (GRATITUDE / SANCTIFICATION)
A. Good works and true conversion (Q
86—91)
1.
If all is of grace, why good works, Q 86
2.
Are they saved, who continue in a life of wickedness, Q 87
3.
The twofold manner of true conversion, Q 88
a.
Of the mortification of the old man, Q 89
b.
Of the quickening of the new man, Q 90
4.
Genuine good works defined, Q 91
a.
Borne out of true faith in God
b.
Done according to the law of God
c.
Directed to the glory of God
B. The Ten Commandments (Q
92—115)
1. The law of God
defined and presented, Q 92
2. The two tables
of the Ten Commandments, Q 93
3. The first
table—our duty to God
a. The first Commandment
(Q 94—95)
i. Prescriptions, Q 94
ii. Idolatry defined, Q 95
b. The second
Commandment (Q 96—98)
i. Prescriptions, Q 96
ii. The question of images, Q 97
iii. The question of images in the
church, Q 98
c. The third
Commandment (Q 99—102)
i. Prescriptions, Q 99
ii. God’s holy jealousy for his
Name, Q 100
iii. The question of swearing
religiously, Q 101
iv. The question of swearing by any
other than God, Q 102
d. The fourth
Commandment; prescriptions, Q 103
4. The second
table—our duty to our fellow man
a. The fifth
Commandment; prescriptions, Q 104
b. The sixth
Commandment (Q 105—108)
i. Prohibitions, Q 105
ii. The scope of the Commandment, Q
106
iii. Prescriptions, Q 107
c. The seventh Commandment
(Q 108—109)
i. What is taught us in this Commandment,
Q 108
ii. The scope of the Commandment, Q
109
d. The eighth Commandment
(Q 110—111)
i. Prohibitions, Q 110
ii. Prescriptions, Q 111
e. The ninth
Commandment: prescriptions & prohibitions, Q 112
f. The tenth
Commandment: prohibitions & prescriptions, Q 113
5. The inability
of Man to keep the law of God perfectly (Q 114—115)
a. The question of the converted
keeping the whole law perfectly, Q 114
b. Reasons for God having the
Commandments preached strictly, Q 115
i. That the converted
may better apprehend their sinful nature
ii. Understanding our
need for forgiveness, Christ’s righteousness
iii. Drive us to seek
the grace of the Holy Spirit
iv. Strive for the
perfection gained in the age to come
C. Prayer in general (Q 116—118)
1.
Why prayer is a necessary discipline for Christians, Q 116
2.
The requisites for acceptable prayer before God, Q 117
3.
What God has commanded that we seek of him in prayer, Q 118
D. The Lord’s Prayer (Q 119—129)
1.
The Prayer presented, Q 119
2. The preface to
the Lord’s Prayer (Q 120—121)
a. “Our Father,” Q 120
b. “Which art in heaven,” Q 121
3. The first petition, Q 122
4. The second
petition, Q 123
5. The third
petition, Q 124
6. The fourth
petition, Q 125
7. The fifth
petition, Q 126
8. The sixth
petition, Q 127
9. The conclusion
of the Lord’s Prayer (Q 128—129)
a. Doxological conclusion, Q 128
b. “Amen,” Q 129
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