Question 48 of 61
The Second Catechism: Of Man's First Condition
What goodness or excellency is in God, wherein Man was like to God?
Answer
God is wise, and God is holy, and God is righteous, and God is perfect (; ; ; ; ).
Read the 5 proof texts (KJV)
- 1 Timothy 1:17
- Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Psalm 145:17
- The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
- Psalm 129:4
- The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
- Psalm 7:9
- Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
- Isaiah 40:26-28
- 26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. 27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.