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C. H. Spurgeon · 1855
A Catechism With Proofs
Spurgeon edited the Baptist Catechism for his own congregation in 1855, when he was 21 years old. He compiled this manual from the Westminster Assembly's and Baptist Catechisms, shortening the expositions of the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. Text from Chapel Library (2007 edition). Scripture proofs in the King James Version.
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Introduction: God and the ScripturesQ. 1–3
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning GodQ. 4–39
4What is God?5Are there more Gods than one?6How many persons are there in the Godhead?7What are the decrees of God?8How does God execute His decrees?9What is the work of creation?10How did God create man?11What are God's works of providence?12What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state in which he was created?13Did our first parents continue in the state in which they were created?14What is sin?15Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?16Into what estate did the Fall bring mankind?17In what consists the sinfulness of that state into which man fell?18What is the misery of that state into which man fell?19Did God leave all mankind to perish in a state of sin and misery?20Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?21How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?22What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?23How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?24How does Christ execute the office of a priest?25How does Christ execute the office of a king?26In what did Christ's humiliation consist?27In what does Christ's exaltation consist?28How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?29How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?30What is effectual calling?31What benefits do those who are effectively called partake of in this life?32What is justification?33What is adoption?34What is sanctification?35What are the benefits which, in this life, either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?36What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?37What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?38What shall be done to the wicked at their death?39What shall be done to the wicked at the Day of Judgment?
The Ten CommandmentsQ. 40–67
40What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?41What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?42Which is the first commandment?43What is required in the first commandment?44Which is the second commandment?45What is required in the second commandment?46What is forbidden in the second commandment?47Which is the third commandment?48What is required in the third commandment?49Which is the fourth commandment?50What is required in the fourth commandment?51How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?52Which is the fifth commandment?53What is required in the fifth commandment?54What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?55Which is the sixth commandment?56What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?57Which is the seventh commandment?58What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?59Which is the eighth commandment?60What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?61Which is the ninth commandment?62What is required in the ninth commandment?63Which is the tenth commandment?64What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?65Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?66Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?67What does every sin deserve?
Faith, Repentance, and the Means of GraceQ. 68–82
68How may we escape His wrath and curse due to us for sin?69What is faith in Jesus Christ?70What is repentance unto life?71What are the outward means by which the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?72How is the Word made effective to salvation?73How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effective to salvation?74How do Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually helpful?75What is baptism?76To whom is baptism to be administered?77Are the infants of such as are professing believers to be baptised?78How is baptism rightly administered?79What is the duty of such as are rightly baptised?80What is the Lord's Supper?81What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?82What is meant by the words "until he come," which are used by the Apostle Paul with reference to the Lord's Supper?