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The first volume covers the first sixty–four questions of the Larger Catechism, including topics such as what it means to enjoy God, the existence of God, His provision, the nature and history of the Bible, God’s nature, and the doctrine of the Trinity. Ridgley also addresses God’s decrees for His people, election of the saints, and the will of God. Ridgley speaks on creation, the nature of man,...

But since this is a very comprehensive duty, including in it the whole of practical religion, it may be considered under the following particulars. 1. We glorify God by confessing all the sins we have committed, and taking shame to ourselves on account of them. This is interpretatively to acknowledge the holiness of his nature, and of his law, which the apostle asserts to be ‘holy, just, and good.’g Thus Joshua advises Achan ‘to give glory to God, by making confession to him;’h and thus the penitent
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