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Matthew Henry’s Westminster Shorter Catechism Commentary on Question 10

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Is man God’s creature? Yes: for we are also his offspring,
Acts 17:28
. Were our first parents the work of his hands? Yes: male and female created he them, and called their name Adam,
Gen. 5:2
. Was man made with a consultation? Yes: for God said, Let us make man,
Gen. 1:26
. Do all the children of men descend from Adam and Eve? Yes: for God has made of one blood all nations of men,
Acts 17:26
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Was man’s body at first made out of the earth? Yes: God made man of the dust of the ground,
Gen. 2:7
. And are our bodies of the earth earthy? Yes: for I also am formed out of the clay,
Job 33:6
. But are they not curiously wrought? Yes: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made,
Ps. 139:14
. Is God the former of our bodies? Yes Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and fenced me with bones and sinews,
Job 10:11
. Is he the author of our senses? Yes: the hearing ear, and seeing eye, the Lord has made even both of them,
Prov. 20:12
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Is God the Father of our spirits? Yes : for he breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life,
Gen. 2:7
. Has God given each of us a soul? Yes: The Lord liveth that made us this soul,
Jer. 38:16
. Is it a rational soul? Yes for the spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord,
Prov. 20:27
. Is it immortal? Yes : for the spirit of a man goes upward,
Eccles. 3:21
. Does it die with the body? No : for when the dust returns to the earth as itwas, the Spirit returns to God who gave it,
Eccles. 12:7
. Is God then the Sovereign of the heart? Yes: for he has said, Behold, all souls are mine,
Ezek. 18:4
. Must we therefore commit our souls to him? Yes into thine hand I commit my spirit,
Ps. 31:5
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Was man made after God’s image? Yes: God created man in his own image,
Gen. 1:27
. Did that image consist in knowledge? Yes: for we are renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created us,
Col. 3:10
. Did it consist inrighteousness and true holiness? Yes: for the new man after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,
Eph. 4:24
. Was there in man at first a perfect purity and freedom from sin? Yes: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
Ezek. 28:15
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Ezek. 16:13
. Was there in him a perfect rectitude and disposition to good? Yes: for God made man upright,
Eccles. 7:29
. Are there some remains of God’s image still upon man? Yes: for men are made after the similitude of God,
James 3:9
. Was man made with a dominion over the creatures? Yes: for thou hast put all things under his feet,
Ps. 8:6
. Have we not reason to admire God’s favour to man? Yes: Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him?
Ps. 144:3
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