Lord’s Day 1, Chapter 3: The Contents of the Christian Comfort

The question now is: what is that great good, the knowledge and consideration of which is sufficient to be a true and sole comfort in life and in death? The Heidelberg Catechism answers: "That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ." Here, too, one might easily be tempted to elaborate so as to anticipate practically the entire contents of the Catechism. He might set out to explain the meaning of "my faithful Savior," and to...