come from God, 2. That they are the gifts of His grace and that I am
unworthy of them, 3. That I owe to God the fullest gratitude of heart
and life.

QUESTIONS.--1. What does "I believe" mean? 2. Why do we say "God the
_Father_"? 3. What does "Almighty" mean? 4. What has God made? 5. Name
His chief creatures. 6. What three things does Luther's explanation of
this article tell us? 7. What has God done and what does He still do for
us? 8. In creating us, what has God given us? 9. How does He preserve
us? 10. Why does God do all this for us? 11. Why are we not worthy of
it? 12. What do we owe to God in return? 13. What is meant by thanking
and praising Him? 14. What is meant by serving and obeying Him? 15. What
is most certainly true according to this article?

SCRIPTURE VERSES.--Eph. 1:3. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ.

Gen. 1:1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Job 33:4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty
hath given me life.

Col. 1:16. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and
that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him,
and for him.

Gen. 2:7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living