il '25S ASSEMBLY'S SHORTER CATECHISM. 36. Q. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification? A. The benefi a whtoh,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. Conscience. That faculty of the soul whereby we pass a judgment concern- ing our good or evil actions. Joyin the Holy Ghost. Holy rejoicing wrought in us by the Spirit of God. Increase of Grace. Growing in holiness. Perseverance. Continuance. 37. Q. What benefits do believers receive fromChrist at their death ? A. The souls of believers are at theirdeath 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. Glory. State of honour andhappiness in heaven. United to Christ. That is, As the members are reckoned one with the head. The Resurrection. Rising froth the dead at the last day. 38. Q. What benefits dobelievers receive fromChrist at theresurrection? A. At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged, andacquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God, to all eternity. Believers. Those who receive Christ in his offices, or trust in him as a pro- phet, a priest, and a king. Acknowledged. Owned for the children of God. Acquitted. Freed from allcharges of sin. Enjoy God. Seeanswer 1. To all eternity. Without end. 39. Q. What is the duty which Godrequireth of man? A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will. 40. Q. What didGod at first reveal to man forthe rule of his obedience? A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law. Moral Law. The law which directs our manners, or our duty to God and ran, add is a rule for all mankind. 41. Q. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended ? A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments. Summarily comprehended. Contained in short. 42. Q. What is the sum of the ten commandment's? A. The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind, and our neighbour as ourselves. To love our neighbour as ourselves. To do to others as we think they ought to do to us in the like case. 43. Q. What is the preface tothe ten commandments? A. The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, " I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house'of bondage." Preface. One or more sentences which go before tobring in something else afterwards. Egypt, eke house of bondage. The land where the Israelites were made bond- men or slaves. 44: Q. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us? A. The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, that because God is the Lord, and our God and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments. Redeemer. See answer 20., 45. Q. Whichis the first commandment? A. The first commandment is, " Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 46. Q. What is required in the first commandment ? A. The first commandment requireth us to know, and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God, and to worship and glorify him accordingly.
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