Question 49 of 61
The Second Catechism: Of Man's First Condition
What more excellency is in God?
Answer
God is the Lord and Ruler of all the World; God is happy; God hath no naughtiness, nor misery (; ; ; ; ).
Read the 5 proof texts (KJV)
- Psalm 24:1
- The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
- 1 Timothy 1:11
- According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
- James 1:13, 17
- 13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Job 34:16
- If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
- Psalm 36:8-9
- 8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. 9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.