11. Obedience to God's Revealed Will (Qs 91-97)
91
What is the duty which God requireth of man ? A. The duty which God requireth of
man, is obedience to his revealed will.(1)
(1)
92 What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his
obedience? A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence,
and to all mankind in him, besides a special command not to eat of the fruit of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the moral law.(1)
(1)Gen.
1:26,27; Rom.
93 What is the
moral law? A. The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind,
directing and binding every one to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity
and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of the whole man, soul and
body,(1) and in performance of all those duties of holiness and righteousness
which he oweth to God and man:(2) promising life upon the fulfilling, and
threatening death upon the breach of it.(3)
(1)Deut.
5:1-3,31,33; Luke 10:26,27; Gal. 3:10; 1 Thess 5:23
(2)Luke 1:75;
Acts 24:16
(3)Rom. 10:5; Gal. 3:10,12
94 Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall?
A. Although no man, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the
moral law;(1) yet there is great use thereof, as well common to all men, as
peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regenerate.(2)
(1)Rom. 8:3;
Gal. 2:16
(2)1 Tim. 1:8
95
Of what use is the moral law to all men ? A. The moral law is of use to all men,
to inform them of the holy nature and will of God,(1) and of their duty, binding
them to walk accordingly;(2) to convince them of their disability to keep it,
and of the sinful pollution of their nature, hearts, and lives;(3) to humble
them in the sense of their sin and misery,(4) and thereby help them to a clearer
sight of the need they have of Christ,(5) and of the perfection of his
obedience.(6)
(1)Lev.
11:44,45; Lev. 20:7,8; Rom.
(2)Micah 6:8;
James 2:10,11
(3)Ps.
19:11,12; Rom.
(4)
(5)Gal.
3:21,22
(6) Rom. 10:4
96
What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men? A. The moral
law is of use to unregenerate men, to awaken their consciences to flee from
wrath to come,(1) and to drive them to Christ,(2) or, upon their continuance in
the estate and way of sin, to leave them inexcusable,(3) and under the curse
thereof.(4)
(1)1 Tim.
1:9,10
(2)Gal. 3:24
(3)Rom.
(4)Gal. 3:10
97
What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate? A. Although they
that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered from the moral law as a
covenant of works,(1) so as thereby they are neither justified(2) nor
condemned;(3) yet, besides the general uses thereof common to them with all men,
it is of special use, to show them how much they are bound to Christ for his
fulfilling it, and enduring the curse thereof in their stead, and for their
good;(4) and thereby to provoke them to more thankfulness,(5) and to express the
same in their greater care to conform themselves thereunto as the rule of their
obedience.(6)
(1)Rom.
(2)Rom.
(3)Gal. 5:23;
(4)Rom.
(5)Luke
1:68,69,74,75; Col. 1:12,13,14
(6)Rom.