Westminster Memorization Flashcards
(25 cards)
Q: What is the chief end of man?
WSC 1 – Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever
Q: What is God?
WSC 4 – God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Q: Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
WSC 16 – 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.
Q: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
WSC 22 – 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 Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
Q: Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
WSC 27 – Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried and continuing under the power of death for a time.
Q: Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?
WSC 28 – Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.
Q: What is Effectual Calling?
WSC 31 – Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby, convicting us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he does persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.
Q: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
WSC 32 – They that are effectually called do partake of in this life justification, adoption, sanctification, and the several benefits that either accompany or flow from them.
Q: What is Justification?
WSC 33 – Justification is an act of God’s free grace whereby he pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in His sight, only by the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and receive by faith alone.
Q: What is Adoption?
WSC 34 – Adoption is an act of God’s free grace whereby we are received into the number and have a right unto all the privileges of the Sons of God.
Q: What is Sanctification?
WSC 35 – Sanctification is a work of God’s free grace whereby sinners are renewed in the whole man after the image of God and are enabled more and more to die unto sin and live unto righteousness.
Q: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
WSC 36 – The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification are assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
Q: What is required in the fourth commandment?
WSC 58 - The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as He has appointed in His word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to Himself.
Q: Which day of the seven has God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
WSC 59 - From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath.
Q: How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
WSC 60 - The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.
Q: What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
WSC 61 - The fourth commandment forbids the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.
Q: What is Faith in Jesus Christ?
WSC 86 – Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the Gospel.
Q: What is Repentance unto Life?
WSC 87 – Repentance unto life is a saving grace whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, does, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn away from it and unto God, with a full purpose of and endeavor unto a new obedience.
Q: How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
WSC 90 – That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our heats, and practice it in our lives.
Q: What is a Sacrament?
WSC 92 – A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ wherein, by sensible signs, Christ and the benefits of the new covenant are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.
Q: What is Baptism?
WSC 94 – Baptism is a sacrament, whereby the washing with water in the name of The Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, does signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
Q: What is the Lord’s Supper
WSC 96 – The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood with all his benefits to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.
Q: What is Prayer?
WSC 98 – Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to His will in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgement of His mercies.
Q: How does it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God?
WLC 4 – The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God by their majesty and purity, by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole (Soli Deo Gloria) … The Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able to fully to persuade it that they are the very Word of God.
