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The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, Volume 6: The Westminster Assembly and Its Work is unavailable, but you can change that!

As one of the leading theologians of late-nineteenth century Presbyterianism, Warfield wrote extensively on the Westminster Confession and the Westminster Assembly. He begins this volume with an outline of the work of the Westminster Assembly, which, in his view, plants the historical and theological seeds of Presbyterianism in America. Warfield also includes a lengthy commentary on the first...

THE FIRST QUESTION OF THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM1 NO Catechism begins on a higher plane than the Westminster “Shorter Catechism.” Its opening question, “What is the chief end of man?” with its answer, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever”—the profound meaning of which Carlyle said grew to him ever fuller and richer with the years—sets the learner at once in his right relation to God. Withdrawing his eyes from himself, even from his own salvation, as the chief object
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