Baptist Catechism of 1693 · Question 44

What is the duty which God requireth of man?

The duty which God requireth of man is, obedience to his revealed will.

Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Source: The Baptist Catechism (Keach’s Catechism)
Translation: Original English, spelling lightly modernized; Scripture proofs: King James Version
Published: 1693; text of the 1695 fifth edition
Original URL: baptistcatechism.org/
Copyright: Public domain.
License: Public domain
Attribution: Public domain: published before 1931. Text taken from baptistcatechism.org, which uses the oldest known copy (the 1695 fifth edition). The other online text I found (reformedreader.org) is the Spurgeon-era version, a different wording, so it could not be used to check this one. Not yet proofread against a scanned original. Scripture proof texts are the King James Version, from the public-domain Project Gutenberg edition, added with tools/add_kjv.py. A few references could not be matched to verses (whole-chapter references such as ‘Genesis 1 throughout’, and typing slips in the source) and are shown without text.

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