Westminster Shorter Catechism
A family is the seminary of Church and State; and if children be not well principled there, all miscarrieth: a fault in the first concoction is not mended in the second; if youth be bred ill in the family, they prove ill in Church and Commonwealth; there is the first making or marring, and the presage of their future lives to be thence taken, Prov. 20:11. By family discipline, officers are trained up for the Church, 1 Tim. 3:4, One that ruleth well his own house, etc.; and there are men bred up in subjection and obedience.
- Thomas Manton
- Thomas Manton
Questions 1-10
Questions 11-20
Questions 21-30
Questions 31-38
Questions 39-48
Questions 49-62
Questions 63-72
Questions 73-81
Questions 82-90
Questions 91-97
Questions 98-107
Questions 11-20
Questions 21-30
Questions 31-38
Questions 39-48
Questions 49-62
Questions 63-72
Questions 73-81
Questions 82-90
Questions 91-97
Questions 98-107
"The Shorter Catechism is, perhaps, not very easy to learn. And very certainly it will not teach itself. Its framers were less careful to make it easy than to make it good."
- Benjamin Warfield
- Benjamin Warfield