Q. 59. Who become partakers of redemption through Christ?
A. Redemption is certainly applied and effectually communicated to all those for whom Christ has purchased it. All these are in time enabled by the Holy Spirit to believe in Christ, according to the gospel.
Q. 4. How do we know that the Scriptures are the Word of God?
A. The Scriptures reveal themselves as the Word of God by their majesty and purity; by the harmony of all the parts together and with the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners and to comfort and build up believers to salvation; but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in the heart of a person is the only thing able to fully persuade him that they are the very Word of God.