Final ID

Question 1

“For Christ frees us, not only from guilt (reatu), but also from corruption (pravitate). For as a double evil (duplex malum) befell us from Adam, even our guilt (reatus) for the sin committed in him, and the corruption (depravatio) of our nature propagated (propagata) from him unto us: so by Christ, the other Adam, a double grace has befallen us: even imputation of righteousness and regeneration.”

Answer 1

Zacharias Ursinus wrote Sum of the Christian Religion
Taught at Heidelberg University.
He is one of the principal authors of the Heidelberg Catechism.
Sum of the Christian Religion was published in English a year after his death in 1584.

Question 2

“The parts [of original sin] are two: original guilt (reatus originalis), and original naughtiness (pravitas originalis). Original guilt (reatus) is a natural [fault] (culpa), & subjection to punishment (poenam), because of the fall of our first parents. Rom. 5. 12. So death went over all men. Original naughtiness (pravitas) is a natural depravity (depravatio) and corruption (corruptio) of man’s whole nature.”

Answer 2

Amandus Polanus
From The Substance of the Christian Religion
Published in 1591.

Question 3

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Answer 3

Romans 5

Question 4

“The condition wherein man was created was morally good and upright; the state wherein he was placed, outwardly happy and blessed; the law given unto him, just and equal; the reward proposed unto him, glorious and sure; and his defection from this condition, voluntary . . . The execution of a righteous sentence, upon the voluntary transgression of a law just and equal, hath no unrighteousness in it. And this was the sum of what God did in this matter, as to the misery that came on mankind”

Answer 4

John Owen in his commentary called Hebrews

Question 5

“15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] of it you shall surely die.””

Answer 5

Gen 2

Question 6

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[b] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.”

Answer 6

Gen 3

Question 7

Foedus

Answer 7

Latin meaning Federal or Covenant. It is used in reference to Federal Theology. More specifically, this refers to the respective headships of Adam and Christ.

Question 8

“Adam, implicating us in his ruin, destroyed us with himself. But Christ restores us to salvation by his grace.”

Answer 8

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2

Question 9

“God will have his justice satisfied. Wherefore it is necessary that we satisfy, either by ourselves or by another.”

Answer 9

Zacharius Ursinus

Question 10

“No one can pay [recompense] except God, and no one ought to pay except man: it is necessary that a God-Man should pay it . . . In order, therefore, that a God-Man should bring about what is necessary, it is essential that the same one person who will make the recompense should be perfect God and perfect man. For he cannot do this if he is not true God, and he has no obligation to do so if he is not a true man”

Answer 10

Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, (Latin, Why the God-Man), Anselm lived from about 1033-1109

Question 11

“The distinction between the active and passive obedience is not a distinction of periods. It is our Lord’s whole work of obedience in every phase and period that is described as active and passive, and we must avoid the mistake of thinking that the active obedience applies to the obedience of his life and the passive obedience of his final sufferings and death.

The real use of the formula is to emphasize the two distinct aspects of our Lord’s vicarious obedience. The truth expressed rests upon the recognition that the law of God has both penal sanctions and positive demands. It demands not only the full discharge of its precepts but also the infliction of penalty for all infractions and shortcomings. It is this twofold demand of the law of God which is taken into account when we speak of the active and passive obedience of Christ. Christ as the vicar of his people came under the curse and condemnation due to sin and he also fulfilled the law of God in all its positive commands. In other words, he took care of the guilt of sin and perfectly fulfilled the demands of righteousness. He perfectly met both the penal and the preceptive requirements of God’s law. The passive obedience refers to the former and the active obedience to the latter. Christ’s obedience was vicarious in the bearing of the full judgment of God upon sin, and it was vicarious in the full discharge of the demands of righteousness. His obedience becomes the ground of the remission of sin and of actual justification.”

Answer 11

John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied

Question 12

“I am so thankful for the active obedience of Christ, no hope without it.”

Answer 12

J. Gresham Machen

Question 13

“There is an intimation of the manner how this work shall be performed. This, first, God takes upon himself: ‘I will do it; “I will put enmity.”’ It is an issue of his sovereign wisdom and grace. But secondly, he will do it in and by the nature of man, “the Seed of the woman.” And two things must concur to the effecting of it;—first, That this Seed of the woman must conquer Satan, bruise his head, destroy his works, and procure deliverance for mankind thereby; secondly, That he must suffer from, and by the means of, Satan in his so doing,––the serpent must “bruise his heal.” This is the remedy and relief that God hath provided from mankind. And this is the Messiah, or God joining with the nature of man to deliver mankind from sin and eternal misery”

Answer 13

John Owen, Hebrews

Question 14

“At the beginning when the first promise of salvation was given to Adam it glowed like a feeble spark. Then, as it was added to, the light grew in fullness, breaking forth increasingly and shedding its radiance more widely. As last––when all the clouds were dispersed––Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, fully illumined the whole earth”

Answer 14

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

Question 15

The Five Articles of Remonstrance - General Facts

Answer 15

Written in 1610 by Simon Episcopius and Janus Uytenbogaert, students of Jacob Arminius. Jacob Arminius passed away before it was published. Written as an attempt to have the Belgic Confession and Heidelberg Catechism Revised.

Question 16

Origin of the TULIP acronym

Answer 16

Tulip is only about 100 years old. The acronym appears to have appeared in the early 20th century, 1905 and appears to come from a Pastor Cleland where he introduced the five points of Tulip. McAffee’s five points were tweaked further and his lection was popularized in 1932 when a lay theologian named Lorain Bettener published a book called “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination” this was based on his masters thesis at Westminster Theological seminary. He took McAffee’s acronym and popularized the five points of Calvinism

In short: 1932, Loraine Boettner in The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. Original formulated by Pastor Cleland McAffee.

Question 17

“That God, by an eternal, unchangeable purpose in Jesus Christ, his Son, before the foundation of the world, hath determined, out of the fallen, sinful race of men, to save in Christ, for Christ’s sake, and through Christ, those who, through the grace of the Holy Ghost, shall believe on this his Son Jesus, and shall persevere in this faith and obedience of faith, through his grace, even to the end; and on the other hand, to leave the incorrigible and unbelieving in sin and under wrath, and to condemn them as alienate from Christ, according to the word of God in John 3:16 and other passages.”

Answer 17

The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 1

Question 18

“… Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, died for all men and for every man, so that he has obtained for them all, by his death on the cross, redemption, and the forgiveness of sins; yet that no one actually enjoys this forgiveness of sins, except the believer.”

Answer 18

The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 2

Question 19

“That man has not saving grace of himself, nor of the energy of his free-will, inasmuch as he, in the state of apostasy and sin, can of and by himself neither think, will, nor do anything that is truly good (such as having faith eminently is); but that it is needful that he be born again of God in Christ, through his Holy Spirit, and renewed in understanding, inclination, or will, and all his powers, in order that he may rightly understand, think, will, and effect what is truly good, according to the word of Christ, John xv. 5: ‘Without me ye can do nothing.’”

Answer 19

The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 3

Question 20

“That this grace of God is the beginning, continuance, and accomplishment of any good, even to this extent, that the regenerate man himself, without that prevenient or assisting; awakening, following, and co-operative grace, [can] neither think, will, nor do good, nor withstand any temptations to evil; so that all good deeds or movements that can be conceived must be ascribed to the grace of God in Christ. But, as respects the mode of the operation of this grace, it is not irresistible, inasmuch as it is written concerning many that they have resisted the Holy Ghost,—Acts vii, and elsewhere in many places.”

Answer 20

The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 4

Question 21

“…But whether they are capable, through negligence, of forsaking again the first beginnings of their life in Christ, of again returning to this present evil world, of turning away from the holy doctrine which was delivered them, of losing a good conscience, of becoming devoid of grace, that must be more particularly determined out of the Holy Scriptures before we ourselves can teach it with the full persuasion of our minds.”

Answer 21

The Five Articles of Remonstrance, Article 5

Question 22

“1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.”

Answer 22

WCF 6

Question 23

“making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ”

Answer 23

Ephesians 1

Question 24

“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will”

Answer 24

Ephesians 1

Question 25

“That perfection of God by which in a most simple act and in a relational manner he goes out toward himself toward creatures outside of him for his own name sake.”

Answer 25

Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

Question 26

"God works the best of things and the worst of things for his glory."

Answer 26

Thomas Watson

Question 27

2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.

Answer 27

WCF 6

Question 28

3. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.

Answer 28

WCF 6

Question 29

“We believe that, through the disobedience of Adam, original sin is extended to all mankind; which is a corruption of the whole nature, and a hereditary disease, wherewith infants themselves are infected even in their mother’s womb, and which produces in man all sorts of sin, being in him as a root thereof; and therefore is so vile and abominable in the sight of God, that it is sufficient to condemn all mankind”

Answer 29

Belgic Confession 15

Question 30

“Man brought forth children of the same nature as himself after the fall. That is to say, being corrupt he brought forth corrupt children. The corruption spread, by God’s just judgment, from Adam to all his descendants — except for Christ alone — not by way of imitation (as in former times the Pelagians would have it) but by way of the propagation of his perverted nature”

Answer 30

Synod of Dort, Article 2, "The Spread of Corruption"

Question 31

4. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.

Answer 31

WCF 6

Question 32

5. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.

Answer 32

WCF 6

Question 33

6. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.

Answer 33

WCF 6

Question 34

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Answer 34

Romans 3

Question 35

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Answer 35

Psalm 51

Question 36

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Answer 36

Isaiah 53

Question 37

If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near

Answer 37

1 Kings 8

Question 38

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Answer 38

1 John 1

Question 39

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Answer 39

Genesis 6

Question 40

“The new birth is necessary in every part of the soul. . . . Because there was an universal depravation by the fall, regeneration must answer it in its extensiveness in every faculty. Otherwise it is not the birth of the man, but of one part only”

Answer 40

Stephen Charnock, "The Necessity of Regeneration", Published in Works, 3:26)

Question 41

as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.

Answer 41

Romans 3

Question 42

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Answer 42

Ephesians 2

Question 43

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Answer 43

1 Cor 2

Question 44

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Answer 44

Isaiah 64

Question 45

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Answer 45

Romans 14

Question 46

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Answer 46

Romans 7

Question 47

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Answer 47

Jeremiah 17

Question 48

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

Answer 48

Gen 4

Question 49

“Every lustful thought would be adultery if it could.”

Answer 49

John Owen, Mortification of Sin

Question 50

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Answer 50

Hebrews 4

Question 51

“There are four things very necessary to be known by all who would see heaven: 1. What man was in the state of innocence, as God made him. 2. What he is in the state of corrupt nature, as he has unmade himself. 3. What he must be in the state of grace, as created in Christ Jesus unto good works, if ever he be made a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light. 4. What he will be in his eternal state, as made by the Judge of all, either perfectly happy, or completely miserable, and that forever.”

Answer 51

Thomas Boston, Human Nature in Its Fourfold State, 1730. Thomas Boston was influential in the Marrow Controversy. His book focuses on Biblical Theology and Christology.

Question 52

“A place of primitive integrity where we stood before God in original righteousness.”

Answer 52

Thomas Boston

Question 53

“Original righteousness wherein man was created, was the conformity of all the faculties and powers of his soul to the moral law.”

Answer 53

Thomas Boston

Question 54

“In Christ, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, our minds are illuminated, our wills are renewed, our affections our changed, our minds are enlightened…”

Answer 54

Thomas Boston

Question 55

Enchiridion

Answer 55

Written by Augustine in 420. Elaborates on the fourfold state in its relation to the law in the first two stages and under grace and peace in the last two.

Question 56

1. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good, or evil. 2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it. 3. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. 4. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil. 5. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.

Answer 56

WCF 9

Question 57

You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.

Answer 57

Gen 50

Question 58

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.

Answer 58

Exo 8

Question 59

“Every individual has only to look at his life history to discern that there was a higher hand that governed it. At this point faith in God’s co-working is most closely connected with our dependence upon Him. He directs even our free acts, and however far above our comprehension may be the manner in which he does that, in any case it must be a co-working, a concursus. Not matter, not fate, not chance can affect us, if our freedom is to be maintained, but only the co-working of God (Psa. 104:4; Prov. 16:1; 21:1).”

Answer 59

Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics

Question 60

“God makes use of second causes to accomplish what is in accordance with His eternal purpose. Second causes are not independent forces who cooperation He needs, but they are means that He employs exactly as He will”

Answer 60

J. Grecham Machen, The Christian View of Man

Question 61

“Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly; yet, by the same providence, he ordereth them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently”

Answer 61

WCF 5.2

Question 62

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Answer 62

Gen 8

Question 63

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name:

Answer 63

Jer 31

Question 64

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[a] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Answer 64

Gen 3

Question 65

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— 23 this Jesus,[c] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

Answer 65

Acts 2

Question 66

But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

Answer 66

Ex 21

Question 67

as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live

Answer 67

Deut 19

Question 68

And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!

Answer 68

1 Kings 22

Question 69

“For if our future blessedness shall consist in being where he is, and beholding of his glory, what better preparation can there be for it than in a constant previous contemplation of that glory in the revelation that is made in the Gospel, unto this very end, that by a view of it we may be gradually transformed into the same glory?”

Answer 69

John Owen, Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ, 1684

Question 70

“Father I desire that they my disciples…may see my glory that you have given me before the foundation of the world.”

Answer 70

John 17

Question 71

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.

Answer 71

Rev 21, description of the city continues into 22

Question 72

7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Answer 72

Gen 17, reference along with Ex. 3:12; Lv. 26:12; Dt. 5:2- 5; Is. 43:1-3; Jer. 24:7; Ez. 11:20; Zech. 13:9; Matt. 1:23; 28:20; II Cor. 6:16 as places where God promises to be with his people. None of these were emphasized singly, so it's probably optional to memorize those.

Question 73

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Answer 73

Rev 21

Question 74

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Answer 74

Isaiah 55

Question 75

And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

Answer 75

Rev 21

Question 76

“Federal Transactions between the Father and the Son about the Redemption of Mankind.”

Answer 76

Written by John Owen and appears to be one of the first more indepth formulations of the Covenant of Redemption. This is often called the pactum salutis, Latin for the Pact/Covenant of Redemption. The personal compact or agreement between the members of the Trinity on behalf of fallen humanity.

Question 77

Theologoumena pantodapa

Answer 77

Written by John Owen in 1661. Theologoumena is translated Biblical Theology now. Maybe not the best term, but it was written while he was a professor at Oxford University. It is perhaps his lectures to his students. He published this when he was kicked out. It looks at all things related to Theology. “All things related to Theology” is a better title, but this book is an early version of Vos’ Biblical Theology, which uses the same sources. The structure of Owen’s book is good because it follows the covenants from Adam to Christ. It looks at the progression of the administration of Biblical covenants from Adam to Christ.

Question 78

The Four Sentences

Answer 78

Written by Peter Lombard. Looks at Theology (especially the four fold state) in a topical fashion (Loci, Latin for Topic).

Question 79

“The basic foundation of all revealed truths in Scripture is thus the covenant of God with believers in Christ”

Answer 79

Heinrich Heppe, Reformed Dogmatics

Question 80

“The fulfillment of the Promises of God, an Explanation of Covenant Theology.”

Answer 80

Richard Belcher

Question 81

“The Trinity and the Covenant of Redemption”

Answer 81

John Fesco

Question 82

“the right way into scripture is to search the covenants between God and us.”

Answer 82

William Tyndale

Question 83

“All the word of God relates to the Covenant.”

Answer 83

Robert Rollock, The first Principal of Edinburgh

Question 84

“Covenant is of the greatest importance in Theology.”

Answer 84

Francis Turretin

Question 85

A Treatise on the Covenant of Grace Summa doctrinae de foedere et testamento Dei The Mysterie and Marrow of the Bible

Answer 85

John Ball, (1654) Johannes Cocceius, (1648) Francis Roberts, (1657)

Question 86

This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

Answer 86

Hebrews 7

Question 87

The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” 2 The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! 3 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power,[a] in holy garments;[b] from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.[c] 4 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” 5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 6 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs[d] over the wide earth. 7 He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

Answer 87

Psalm 110

Question 88

It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Answer 88

Zechariah 6

Question 89

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Answer 89

Ephesians 1

Question 90

But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

Answer 90

John 6

Question 91

“As the covenant of grace hath its life from God only, and from grace; so ‘tis founded and bottomed upon nothing in us, but upon God’s covenant with Christ, whom he gave for a covenant of the people, Isa. 49:8; whom he layed in Zion for a foundation, a sure foundation, Isa. 28.16.” “The covenant made with us, did spring out of the covenant made with Christ; and as ‘tis commonly distinguished, the covenant of reconciliation, whereby we are actually recovered and reconciled unto God, is bottomed upon the covenant of redemption; or as others speak, the covenant of suretiship [sic].”

Answer 91

Written by Patrick Gillespie, The Ark of the Covenant Opened: or, A Treatise of the Covenant of Redemption between God and Christ, as the Foundation of the Covenant of Grace Written in 1677

Question 92

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Answer 92

Romans 8

Question 93

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Answer 93

Gen 1

Question 94

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man[a] when they were created.

Answer 94

Gen 5

Question 95

Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

Answer 95

Joel 2

Question 96

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Answer 96

Galatians 3

Question 97

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for[a] him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed[b] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam[c] there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[d] into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”[e]

Answer 97

Gen 2

Question 98

Ezer

Answer 98

Hebrew, means "helper"

Question 99

And this he said of Judah: “Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With your hands contend[a] for him, and be a help against his adversaries.”

Answer 99

Deut 33

Question 100

Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. 22 Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.

Answer 100

Psalm 33

Question 101

“Right now you are very much in love and you think your love can sustain or marriage, but your marriage can sustain your love.”

Answer 101

Deidrich Bonhoffer

Question 102

And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Answer 102

Gen 2

Question 103

8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, 12 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 14 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” 15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated[a] always in her love.

Answer 103

Proverbs 5

Question 104

“As union with Christ is a relationship of exclusive and covenantal self-giving love, so sexual love is only to be experienced within marriage.” “Modernity has pushed against that sexual ethic, by defining sexual relationship in terms of consumeristic and transactional relationships.”

Answer 104

PCA Study Report on Sexuality in Marriage

Question 105

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to[a] your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

Answer 105

Gen 3

Question 106

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.

Answer 106

Gen 4

Question 107

And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Answer 107

Matthew 15

Question 108

3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Answer 108

Ephesians 5

Question 109

8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Answer 109

Rev 21

Question 110

21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Answer 110

Romans 1

Question 111

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.[a] 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Answer 111

Ephesians 5

Question 112

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Answer 112

1 Corinthians 6