Westminster Shorter Catechism
Copywork for questions 31 to 40
Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 31
Name ____________ Date ________What is effectual calling?
Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 32
Name ____________ Date ________What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 33
Name ____________ Date ________What is justification?
Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 34
Name ____________ Date ________What is adoption?
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 sons of God.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 35
Name ____________ Date ________What is sanctification?
Sanctification 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 sin, and live unto righteousness.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 36
Name ____________ Date ________What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?
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.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 37
Name ____________ Date ________What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 38
Name ____________ Date ________What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 39
Name ____________ Date ________What is the duty which God requireth of man?
The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to his revealed will.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 40
Name ____________ Date ________What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience was the moral law.
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