《威斯敏斯特大教理问答》

十三、上帝对天使的护理

19问：上帝对天使有何护理之工？

答：为使自己得荣耀，上帝藉其护理，上帝为了自己的荣耀，藉其护理之工，容许部份天使，在祂的限制和定规下（伯1:12；太8:31），蓄意堕落犯罪，并硬心到底，自取灭亡（犹6；彼后2:4；来2:16；约8:44）；又按自己旨意所喜悦的，藉着自己权柄、怜悯、公义之治理（王下19:35；来1:14），使其余的天使都被建立在圣洁和喜乐之中（提前5:21；可8:38；来12:22）。

Question 19: What is God’s providence towards the angels?

Answer: God by his providence permitted some of the angels, wilfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation, limiting and ordering that, and all their sins, to his own glory; and established the rest in holiness and happiness; employing them all, at his pleasure, in the administrations of his power, mercy, and justice.

《威斯敏斯特大教理问答》

十二、上帝的护理之工

18问：何为上帝的护理之工？

答：上帝的护理之工就是祂对所造万有至圣（诗145:17）、至智（诗104:24；赛28:29）、至能的维护（来1:3）和统管（诗103:19），使万有，以及万有之运作（太10:29-31；创45:7），全都为了他的荣耀，照着祂的定规成就实现（罗11:36；赛63:14）。

Question 18: What are God’s works of providence?

Answer: God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures; ordering them, and all their actions, to his own glory.

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十一、上帝创造人

17问：上帝如何创造人？

答：上帝造万物之后，就造男人女人（创1:27）；先用地上的尘土造了男人的身体，后用男人的肋骨造了女人（创2:22），赋予他们有生命、有理性、永存不朽的灵魂（创2:7；伯35:11；传12:7；太10:28；路23:43）；就是按祂自己有知识（西3:10）、有公义和圣洁（弗4:24）的形象创造他们（创1:27）；又将律法写在他们心里（罗2:14-15），赐给他们遵行律法的能力及统管万有的权柄，但听凭他们或顺命，或堕落（创3:6；传7:29）。

Question 17: How did God create man?

Answer: After God had made all other creatures, he created man male and female; formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground, and the woman of the rib of the man, endued them with living, reasonable, and immortal souls; made them after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness,and holiness; having the law of God written in their hearts, and power to fulfil it, and dominion over the creatures; yet subject to fall.

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十、上帝创造天使

16问：上帝如何造天使？

答：上帝创造了属乎灵性（诗104:4）、永存不朽（太22:30）、分别为圣（太25:31）、知识卓越（撒下14:17；太24:36）、大有权能（帖后1:7）的众天使（西1:16），让他们可以或执行上帝的命令、赞美上帝的圣名（诗103:20-21），或变节叛逆（彼后2:4）。

Question 16: How did God create angels?

Answer: God created all the angels spirits, immortal, holy, excelling in knowledge, mighty in power, to execute his commandments, and to praise his name, yet subject to change.

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九、上帝的造化之工

15问：何为上帝的造化之工？

答：上帝的造化之工，就是上帝于起初，为了祂自己，藉祂权能的话语，于六日之内，从无有之中创造了甚为美好之世界及其中之万有（创1；来11:3；箴16:4）。

Question 15: What is the work of creation?

Answer: The work of creation is that wherein God did in the beginning, by the word of his power, make of nothing the world, and all things therein, for himself, within the space of six days, and all very good.