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110. Queft. What are the Reafons annexed to the Second Commandment, the more to enforce it?

Anfw. The Reafons annexed to the Second Commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in thefe Words, F02 I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Childien unto the Third and Fourth Generation of them that hate me: And thewing Mercy unto Thousands of them that loveme, and keep my Commandments are, befide God's Sovereignty over us and Property in us, his fervent Zeal for his own Worship, and his revengeful Indignation against all false Worship, as being a Spiritual Whoredom ; accounting the Breakferibes and Pharifees, hypocrites; thy Lord, and worship thou him for ye fhut up the kingdom of hea- Rev. 15.3. And they fing the fong of ven against men for ye neither go Mofes the fervant of God, and the in your felves, neither fuffer ye fong of the Lamb, faying, Great them that are entring to go in. and marvellous are thy works, Lord Ads 13.44. And the next fab- God almighty; juft and true are thy bath-day came almoft the whole ways, thou King of faints. city together to hear the word of Who fhall not fear thee, O Lord, and God. v. 45. But when the Jews faw glorify thy name? for thou only art the multitudes, they were filled with holy for all nations fhall come and envy, and fpake againft those things worship before thee; for thy judg which were spoken by Paul contra- ments are made manifeft. diting and blafpheming. 1 Thef

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Exod. 34. 13. But ye fhall de15. Who both killed the Lord ftroy their altars, break their ima→ Jefus, and their own prophets, and ges, and cut down their groves. v. have perfecuted us; and they pleafe 14. For thou shalt worship no other not God, and are contrary to all god: for the Lord, whose name men: v.16. Forbidding us to speak Jealous, is a jealous God. to the Gentiles, that they might be * I Cor. 10. 20. But I fay, That faved, to fill up their fins alway, for the things which the Gentiles facrithe wrath is come upon them to the fice, they facrifice to devils and not to God: and I would not that ye fhould have fellowship with devils. v. 21, Ye cannot drink the cup of

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Breakers of this Commandment fuch as hate him, and threatning to punish them unto divers Genera tions 8; and efteeming the Obfervers of it fuch as love him and keep his Commandments, and pro mifing Mercy to them unto many Generations.

III. Quelt. Which is the Third Commandment? Anfw. The Third Commandment is, Thou shalt not take the Mame of the Lord thy God in vain:

the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lords table, and of the table of devils, v. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealoufy are we ftronger than he? Jer.7.18.The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke meto anger. v. 19. Do they pro voke me to anger? faith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confufion of their own faces? v. 20. Therefore thus faith the Lord God, Behold, mine anger, and fury fhall be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beaft, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it fhall burn, and fhall not be quenched. Ezek. 16. 26. Thou haft alfo committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh, and haft increafed thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. v. 27. Behold therefore, I have ftretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philiftines, which are afhamed of thy lewd way. Deut. 32. 16. They provoked him to jealousy with frangegads, with abo

minations provoked they him to anger. v. 17. They facrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. v. 18, Ofthe Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and haft forgotten God that formed thee. v. 19. And when the Lord faw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his fons, and of his daughters. v. 20. And he faid, I will hide my face from them, I will fee what their end fhall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

8 Hof. 2. 2. Plead with your mo ther, plead: for fhe is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her fight, and her adulteries from between her breafts; v.3. Left Iftrip her naked, and fet her as in the day that he was born, and make her as a wilderness, and fet her like a dry land, and flay her with thirst. v. 4. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

h Deut. S. 29. Q that there were fuch a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever,

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112. Queft. What is required in the Third Comandment?

Anfw. The Third Commandment requires, That the lame of God, his Titles, Attributes ; Ordinances', e Word m, Sacraments", Prayer, Oaths P, Vows, Lots';

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112. k Mat. 6.9. After this mantherefore pray ye: Our Father ich art in heaven, hallowed be 7 name. Deut. 28. 58. If thou t not obferve to do all the words this law that are written in this ok, that thou mayeft fear this rious and fearful name, THE RD THY GOD. Pfalm 29. 2. ve unto the Lord the glory due to his name; worship the Lord in beauty of holiness. Pfalm 68. Sing unto God, fing praises to his me: extol him that rideth upon heavens by his name JAH, and oice before him. Rev. 15. 3,4. te above in d.]

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Mal. 1. 14. But curfed be the dever, which hath in his flock a ile, and voweth and facrificeth to the Lord a corrupt thing: for a great king, faith the Lord of fts, and my name is dreadful ang the heathen. Eccl. 5.1. Keep foot when thou goeft to the afe of God, and be more ready to ar, than to give the facrifice of ls: for they confider not that y do evil.

is broken for you: this do in remem→ brance of me. v.25.After the fame manner alfo he took the cup, when he had fupped, faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. v.28. But let a man examine himself, and fo let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. v. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not difcerning the Lords body.

I Tim. 2. 8. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

P fer. 4. 2. And thou fhalt fwear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteoufnefs; and the nations fhall blefs themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

9 Eccl. s. 2. Be not rafh with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hafty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. v. 4. When thou voweft a vow unto God, defer not to pay it for he hath no pleafure in fools; pay that Pfalm 138. 2. I will worship to- which thou haft vowed. v. 5. Betrds thy holy temple, and praise ter is it that thou shouldft not vow, name, forthy loving kindness, than that thou shouldft vow, and not forthy truth: for thou haft mag- pay. v. 6. Suffer not thy mouth to ed thy word above all thy name. caufe thy flesh to fin, neither fay I Cor.11. 24. And when he had thou before the angel, that it was en thanks, he brake it, and faid, an error: wherefore fhould God be kecat; this is my body, which

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I 13. Quest. What are the Sins forbidden in the Third rmandment?

Anfw. The Sins forbidden in the Third Comndment are, the not ufing of God's Name as is uired; and the Abuse of it in an ignorant, n1, irreverent, prophane, fuperftitious", or wicked