WSC Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. 1. What is the chief end Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
of man?
2. 2. What rule hath God The word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New
given to direct us how Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.
we may glorify and en-
joy him?
3. 3. What do the Scrip- The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God,
tures principally teach? and what duty God requires of man.
4. 4. What is God? God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom,
power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
5. 5. Are there more Gods There is but one only, the living and true God.
than one?
6. 6. How many persons There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the
are there in the God- Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal
head? in power and glory.
7. 7. What are the decrees The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the council
of God? of His will, whereby, for his own glory, He hath foreordained whatsoever
comes to pass.
8. 8. How doth God exe- God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
cute His decrees?
9. 9. What is the work of The work of creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the Word
creation? of His power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
10. 10. How did God create God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge,
man? righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
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11. 11. What are God's God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserv-
works of providence? ing and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.
12. 12. What special act of When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him,
providence did God ex- upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of
ercise toward man in the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.
the estate wherein he
was created?
13. 13. Did our first parents Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the
continue in the estate estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
wherein they were cre-
ated?
14. 14. What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
15. 15. What was the sin The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were
whereby our first par- created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.
ents fell from the estate
wherein they were cre-
ated?
16. 16. Did all mankind fall The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his
in Adam's first trans- posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation,
gression? sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.
17. 17. Into what estate did The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
the fall bring mankind?
18. 18. Wherein consists The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of
the sinfulness of that Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of
estate whereinto man his whole nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all
fell? actual transgressions which proceed from it.
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1. 1. What is the chief end Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
of man?
2. 2. What rule hath God The word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New
given to direct us how Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.
we may glorify and en-
joy him?
3. 3. What do the Scrip- The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God,
tures principally teach? and what duty God requires of man.
4. 4. What is God? God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom,
power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
5. 5. Are there more Gods There is but one only, the living and true God.
than one?
6. 6. How many persons There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the
are there in the God- Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal
head? in power and glory.
7. 7. What are the decrees The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the council
of God? of His will, whereby, for his own glory, He hath foreordained whatsoever
comes to pass.
8. 8. How doth God exe- God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
cute His decrees?
9. 9. What is the work of The work of creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the Word
creation? of His power, in the space of six days, and all very good.
10. 10. How did God create God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge,
man? righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
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11. 11. What are God's God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserv-
works of providence? ing and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.
12. 12. What special act of When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him,
providence did God ex- upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of
ercise toward man in the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.
the estate wherein he
was created?
13. 13. Did our first parents Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the
continue in the estate estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
wherein they were cre-
ated?
14. 14. What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
15. 15. What was the sin The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were
whereby our first par- created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.
ents fell from the estate
wherein they were cre-
ated?
16. 16. Did all mankind fall The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his
in Adam's first trans- posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation,
gression? sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.
17. 17. Into what estate did The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
the fall bring mankind?
18. 18. Wherein consists The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of
the sinfulness of that Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of
estate whereinto man his whole nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all
fell? actual transgressions which proceed from it.
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