Typically, parents and the church would use the shorter catechism to train their children in the ways of the Lord.
Perhaps on the whole as valuable a lesson as the shorter catechism itself contains.
And he took the diploma for learning the whole Shorter Catechism by heart.
The will also requires the Shorter Catechism also be included.
His chief work was in connection with the assembly's Shorter Catechism, though he did not live till its completion.
Catechesis, a translation of the shorter catechism into Greek and Latin, 1659.
Well, to borrow a form from the Shorter Catechism: wherein consisted the difference between the colonel and the doctor?
It was, however, later acknowledged that the Shorter Catechism was not suitable for young children or those of a weak capacity.
The matron smiled complacently in the superior wisdom of the Shorter Catechism.
I have been most unjust to the Shorter Catechism, I perceive.