Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may
apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.—Phil 3.12

THE

COMMON PRINCIPLES

OF THE

CHRISTIAN RELIGION,

CLEARLY PROVED,

AND

SINGULARLY IMPROVED;

OR,

A PRACTICAL CATECHISM

by

Hugh Binning

Original Preface. Patrick Gillespie’s Epistle to the Reader.
Lecture 01 God’s Glory the Chief End of Man’s Being.
Lecture 02 Union & Communion with God the End & Design of the Gospel.
Lecture 03 The Authority & Utility of the Scriptures.
Lecture 04 The Scriptures Reveal Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ.
Lecture 05 Of the Scriptures
Lecture 06 What the Scriptures Principally Teach: The Ruin & Recovery of Man: Faith & Love Towards Christ.
Lecture 07 Of the Name of God.
Lecture 08 The Eternity and Unchangeableness of God.
Lecture 09 What God Is To Us.
Lecture 10 What God Is.
Lecture 11 The Knowledge that God Is, & the Knowledge that He is to be Worshipped.
Lecture 12 The Unity of the Divine Essence, and the Trinity of Persons.
Lecture 13 Of the Unity of the Godhead and the Trinity of Persons.
Lecture 14 Of the Decrees of God.
Lecture 15 Of Predestination.
Lecture 16 Of Predestination.
Lecture 17 Of Creation.
Lecture 18 Of Creation.
Lecture 19 Of the Creation of Man.
Lecture 20 God’s Works of Providence.
Lecture 21 Of the First Covenant Made with Man.
Lecture 22 Of the First Covenant.
Lecture 23 Of the State Wherein Man was Created, and How the Image of God is Defaced.
Lecture 24 Of Sin by Imputation and Propagation.
Lecture 25 Of the Way of Man’s Delivery.