Children's Catechism (41 - 50)

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Q. 41. Can anyone be saved through the covenant of works?

A. None can be saved through the covenant of works.


Q. 42. Why can none be saved through the covenant of works?

A. Because all have broken it, and are condemned by it


Q. 43. With whom did God the Father make the covenant of grace?

A. With Christ, his eternal Son.


Q. 44. Whom did Christ represent in the covenant of grace?

A. His elect people.


Q. 45. What did Christ undertake in the covenant of grace?

A. To keep the whole law for his people, and to suffer the punishment due to their sins.


Q. 46. Did our Lord Jesus Christ ever commit the least sin?

A. No; he was holy, harmless, and undefiled.


Q. 47. How could the Son of God suffer?

A. Christ, the Son of God, became man that he might obey and suffer in our nature.


Q. 48. What is meant by the atonement?

A. Christ's satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings and death, in the place of sinners.


Q. 49. What did God the Father undertake in the covenant of grace?

A. To justify and sanctify those for whom Christ should die.


Q. 50. What is justification?

A. It is God's forgiving sinners, and treating them as if they had never sinned.


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