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Q. 1. What are the works of God that outwardly respect his creatures? A. First, of creation; secondly, of27 actual providence. Ps. xxxiii. 9; Heb. i. 2, 3. Q. 2. What is the work of creation? A. An act or work of God’s almighty power, whereby of nothing, in six days, he created heaven, earth, and the sea, with all things in them contained. Gen. i. 1; Exod. xx. 11; Prov. xvi. 4. Q. 3. Wherefore did God make man? A. For his own glory in his service28 29 and obedience. Gen. i. 26, 27, ii. 16, 17; Rom. ix. 23. Q. 4. Was man able to yield the service and worship that God required of him? A. Yea, to the uttermost, being created upright in the image of God, in purity, innocence, righteousness, and holiness. Gen. i. 26; Eccles. vii. 29; Eph. iv. 24; Col. iii. 10. Q. 5. What was the rule whereby man was at first to be directed in his obedience? A. The moral30 or eternal law of God, implanted in his nature and written in his heart by creation, being the tenor of the covenant between God and him, sacramentally typified by the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Gen. ii. 15–17; Rom. ii. 14, 15; Eph. iv. 24. 475Q. 6. Do we stand in the same covenant still, and have we the same power to yield obedience unto God? A. No; the acovenant was31 broken by the sin of Adam, with whom it was made, bour nature corrupted, cand all power to do good utterly lost. aGen. iii. 16–18; Gal. iii. 10, 11, 21; Heb. vii. 19, viii. 13. bJob xiv. 4; Ps. li. 5. cGen. vi. 5; Jer. xiii. 23.

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