Excerpt from The System of Theology Contained in the Westminster Shorter Catechism: Opened and ExplainedThe heidelberg Catechism observes the following order: First Part. Man's Misery. Second Part. Man's Redemption, and under this the Creed and the Sacra ments. Third Part. Of Thankfulness, including the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer.Our own Catechism, prepared by the learned divines of the Westminster Assembly, is a much more accurate and comprehensive statement of Christian truth than any of these. Dr. Schaff says that it is one of the three typical Catechisms of Protestantism which are likely to last to the end of time. It is fully equal to Luther's and to the Heidelberg Catechism in ability and in¿uence, it far surpasses them in clearness and careful wording, and is better adapted to the Scotch and Anglo - American mind, but it lacks their genial warmth, freshness, and childlike simplicity Richard Baxter called it the best Catechism I ever saw, a most excellent sum of the Christian faith and doctrine, and a fit test to try the orthodoxy of teachers. It like the others is also found ed on the traditional group of lessons, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer, common to all Church Catechisms. It observes the following order.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.