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Catechism

  Q. How did God create man?
  A. God created man male and female, after his own image in knowledge, righteousness and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
  Q. What are God's works of providence?
  A. God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions.
  Q. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created?
  A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.
  Q. Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were created?
  A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from




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