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The Baptist Catechism Set to Music, by Jim Scott Orrick
The Baptist Catechism Set to Music is composed by Jim Scott Orrick, copyright © 2001; all rights reserved; used by permission. Jim Orrick is a Baptist pastor and the author of Mere Calvinism and other books.
Question 1: Who is the first and chiefest being? Question 2: Ought everyone to believe there is a God? Question 3: How may we know there is a God? Question 4: What is the word of God? Question 5: May all men make use of the holy scriptures? Question 6: What things are chiefly contained in the holy scriptures? Question 7: What is God? Question 8: Are there more gods than one? Question 9: How many persons are there in the Godhead? Question 10: What are the decrees of God? Question 11: How doth God execute his decrees? Question 12: What is the work of creation? Question 13: How did God create man? Question 14: What are God’s works of providence? Question 15: What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created? Question 16: Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? Question 17: What is sin? Question 18: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created? Question 19: Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression? Question 20: Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? Question 21: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? Question 22: What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell? Question 23: Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery? Question 24: Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect? Question 25: How did Christ, being the Son of God become man? Question 26: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer? Question 27: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? Question 28: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? Question 29: How doth Christ execute the office of a king? Question 30: Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist? Question 31: Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation? Question 32: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? Question 33: How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? Question 34: What is effectual calling? Question 35: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? Question 36: What is justification? Question 37: What is adoption? Question 38: What is sanctification? Question 39: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification? Question 40: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death? Question 41: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? Question 42: But what shall be done to the wicked at their death? Question 43: What shall be done to the wicked, at the day of judgment? Question 44: What is the duty which God requireth of man? Question 45: What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? Question 46: Where is the moral law summarily comprehended? Question 47: What is the sum of the ten commandments? Question 48: What is the preface to the ten commandments? Question 49: What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us? Question 50: Which is the first commandment? Question 51: What is required in the first commandment? Question 52: What is forbidden in the first commandment? Question 53: What are we especially taught by these words before me, in the first commandment? Question 54: Which is the second commandment? Question 55: What is required in the second commandment? Question 56: What is forbidden in the second commandment? Question 57: What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment? Question 58: Which is the third commandment? Question 59: What is required in the third commandment? Question 60: What is forbidden in the third commandment? Question 61: What is the reason annexed to the third commandment? Question 62: Which is the fourth commandment? Question 63: What is required in the fourth commandment? Question 64: Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath? Question 65: How is the Sabbath to be sanctified? Question 66: What is forbidden in the fourth commandment? Question 67: What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment? Question 68: Which is the fifth commandment? Question 69: What is required in the fifth commandment? Question 70: What is forbidden in the fifth commandment? Question 71: What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment? Question 72: What is the sixth commandment? Question 73: What is required in the sixth commandment? Question 74: What is forbidden in the sixth commandment? Question 75: Which is the seventh commandment? Question 76: What is required in the seventh commandment? Question 77: What is forbidden in the seventh commandment? Question 78: Which is the eighth commandment? Question 79: What is required in the eighth commandment? Question 80: What is forbidden in the eighth commandment? Question 81: Which is the ninth commandment? Question 82: What is required in the ninth commandment? Question 83: What is forbidden in the ninth commandment? Question 84: Which is the tenth commandment? Question 85: What is required in the tenth commandment? Question 86: What is forbidden in the tenth commandment? Question 87: Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? Question 88: Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous? Question 89: What doth every sin deserve? Question 90: What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin? Question 91: What is faith in Jesus Christ? Question 92: What is repentance unto life? Question 93: What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? Question 94: How is the word made effectual to salvation? Question 95: How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? Question 96: How do baptism and the Lord’s supper become effectual means of salvation? Question 97: What is baptism? Question 98: To whom is baptism to be administered? Question 99: Are the infants of such as are professing believers to be baptized? Question 100: How is Baptism rightly administered? Question 101: What is the duty of such who are rightly baptized? Question 102: What is the Lord’s supper? Question 103: Who are the proper subjects of this ordinance? Question 104: What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s supper? Question 105: What is prayer? Question 106: What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer? Question 107: What doth the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us? Question 108: What do we pray for in the first petition? Question 109: What do we pray for in the second petition? Question 110: What do we pray for in the third petition? Question 111: What do we pray for in the fourth petition? Question 112: What do we pray for in the fifth petition? Question 113: What do we pray for in the sixth petition? Question 114: What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s prayer teach us?