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A. That I with body and soul, both in life and death,a am not my own,b but belong unto my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ;c who, with his precious blood, has fully satisfied for all my sins,d and delivered me from all the power of the devil;e and so preserves mef that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head;g yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation,h and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life,i and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him.j
A. Three;a the first, how great my sins and miseries are;b the second, how I may be delivered from all my sins and miseries;c the third, how I shall express my gratitude to God for such deliverance.d
A. Out of the law of God.a
A. Christ teaches us that briefly, Matt 22:37-40,a "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first and the great commandment; and the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."b
A. In no wise;a for I am prone by nature to hate God and my neighbour.b
A. By no means; but God created man good,a and after his own image,b in true righteousness and holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him and live with him in eternal happiness to glorify and praise him.c
A. From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise;a hence our nature is become so corrupt, that we are all conceived and born in sin.b
A. Indeed we are;a except we are regenerated by the Spirit of God.b
A. Not at all;a for God made man capable of performing it; but man, by the instigation of the devil,b and his own wilful disobedience,c deprived himself and all his posterity of those divine gifts.
A. By no means; but is terribly displeaseda with our original as well as actual sins; and will punish them in his just judgment temporally and eternally,b as he has declared, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them."c