Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism

Ursinus’s lectures on the Heidelberg Catechism, of which he was principal author, compiled after his death by his student David Pareus and first published in 1584 - the standard sixteenth-century exposition of the catechism and Ursinus’s magnum opus. Translated by G. W. Willard (Columbus, Ohio, 1852). One note per catechism question.

1. Table of Contents
2. The Translator’s Preface
3. Introduction
4. Commentary of Ursinus: Prolegomena
5. Special Prolegomena
6. Question 1. What is thy only comfort in life and death?
7. Question 2. How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfo
8. Question 3. Whence knowest thou thy misery?
9. Question 4. What doth the law of God require of us?
10. Question 5. Canst thou keep all these things perfectly?
11. Question 6. Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?
12. Question 7. Whence, then, proceeds this depravity of human nature?
13. Question 8. Are we then so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good, and inc

Concerning the Misery of Man

14. Question 9. Doth not God then do injustice to man, by requiring from him, in his law, that
15. Question 10. Will God suffer such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished?
16. Question 11. But is not God also merciful?
17. Question 12. Since, then, by the righteous judgment of God, we deserve temporal and eterna

Of the Creation of Man

of the Image of God in Man

18. Question 13. Can we ourselves then make this satisfaction?

Of the Fall, and First Sin of Man

of Sin in General

19. Question 14. Can there be found anywhere one, who is a mere creature, able to satisfy for