120. Quelt. What are the Reafons annexed to the Fourth Commandment, the more to enforce it? m Anfw. The Realons annexed to the Fourth Commandment the more to enforce it, are taken from the Equity of it, God allowing us Six Days of Se ven for our own Affairs, and referving but One for himself, in thefe Words, Sir Days thalt thou labour and do all thy Work From God's challenging a fpecial Propriety in that Day, The Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy 500 From the Example of God, who in t Days made heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and retted the Seventh Day: And from that Blefling which God put upon that Day, not only in fanétifying it to be a Day for his Service, but in ordaining it to be a Means of Bleffing to us in our fanctifying it; wherefor the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hal lowed it. 121. Queft. Why is the Word Remember fet in the Beginning of the Fourth Commandment? Anfu. The Word Remember is fet in the Bginning of the Fourth Commandment, partly be caufe of the great Benefit of Remembring it, we be ing thereby helped in our Preparation to keep it hallow the fabbath-day, to do no work therein. v. 27. But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the fabbath-day, and not to bear a bur den, even entring in at the gates of Jerufalem on the fabbath-day: then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it fhall devour the palaces of Jerufalem, and fhall not be quenched. Ifa. 58. 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the fabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy and day, and call the fabbath a delight, 120. 1 Exod. 20. 2 121. • Exod. 20. 8. Exod. 16. 23. And he faid unto them, nd in keeping it, better to keep all the reft of the Commandments and to coutinue a thankful Reembrance of the Two great Benefits of Creation nd Redemption, which contain a fhort Abridgeent of Religion: And partly because we are very ady to forget it, for that there is lefs Light of Na ith drew on. em, This is that which the Lord ith faid, To morrow is the reft holy fabbath unto the Lord: ake that which ye will bake, to and feethe what ye will feethe; dthat which remaineth over, lay for you to be kept until the morn 8. Luke 23. 54. And that day is the preparation, and the fab- Gen. 2. 2. And on the feventh v. 56. And they day God ended his work which! turned, and prepared fpices and he had made: and he refted on atments; and rested the fabbath- the seventh day from all his work according to the command- which he had made. v. 3. And ent. Compared with Mark 15.42. God bleffed the feventh day, and nd now when the even was come, fanctified it; because that in it he cause it was the preparation, that had refted from all his work, which the day before the fabbath. God created and made. Pfalm 118. bem. 13. 19. And it came to pafs, 22. The ftone which the builders at when the gates of Jerufalem refufed is become the head-tone of egan to be dark before the fab- the corner. v. 24. This is the day ath, I commanded that the gates which the Lord hath made, we will hould be shut, and charged that rejoice and be glad in it. Compared hey fhould not be opened till after with Acts 4. 10. Be it known unto he fabbath: and fome of my fer- you all, and to all the people, of ants fet I at the gate, that there Ifrael, that by the name of Jefus ould no burden be brought in on Chrift of Nazareth, whom ye crue fabbath-day. cified, whom God raised from the 9 Pfalme 92. [Title, A pfalm or dead, even by him doth this man ong for the fabbath-day, Compared ftand here before you whole. v. 115 vish v.13. Thofe that be planted This is the stone which was fet at the house of the Lord, fhall nought of you builders, which is lourish in the courts of our God. become the head of the corner. And v. 14. They hall fill bring Rev. 1. 10. I was in the Spirit on that I am the Lord that fanctify them. 19. I am the Lord your God; walk in my ftatutes, and keep my judgments, and do them. v. zo. And hallow my fabbaths; and they fhall be a fign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God. orth fruit in old age: they hall the Lords day, and heard bee fat, and flourishing: Ezek: 29. hind me a great voice, as of a 12. Moreover alfo, I gave them trumpet. 1 Ezek. 22. 26. Her priests have my fabbaths, to be a fign between me and them,that they might know violated my law,and profaned mine holy Nature for it; and yet it reftraineth our natural Liberty in Things at other times lawful that it cometh but once in Seven Days, and many wordly Bufineffes come between, and too often take off our Minds from thinking of it, either to prepare for it, or to fanctify it "; and that Satan with his Inftruments much la bour to blot out the Glory, and even the Me mory of it, to bring in all Irreligion and Impiety T v122. Quest. What is the Sum of the Six Commandments which contain our Duty to Man? A. Anfu thee to keep the fabbath-day. Ame! moon be gone, that we may fell corn? and the fabbath, that we may fet forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the fhekel great, and falfifying the balances by de ceit? holy things: they have put no diffe- fore the Lord thy God commanded rence between the holy and profane, neither have they fliewed difference be- 8. 3. Saying, When will the newtween the unclean and the clean,and have hid their eyes from my fabbaths and I am profaned among them. g1a Neh. 9. 14. And madeft known unto them thy holy fabbath, and commandedft them precepts, ftatutes, and laws, by the hand of * Lam. 1. 7. Jerufalem remem Mofes thy fervant. 1991 bred in the days of her affliction, XwExod. 34. 21. Six days thou halt and of her miferies, all her plea work, but on the seventh day thou fant things that she had in the days fhalt reft in earing-time and in of old, when her people fell inte harveft thou shalt reft. the hand of the enemy, and none 3. Deut. §. 14. But the leventh did help her, the adverfaries f day is the fabbath of the Lord thy Her, and did mock at her fabbaths, God in it thou shalt not do any Jer. 17, 21. Thus faith the Lord, work, thou, nof thy fon, nor thy Take heed to your selves, and bear daughter, northy man-servant, nor no burden on the fabbath-day, not thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor bring it in by the gates of Jeruf thine afs, nor any ofthy cattle, nor lem. v. 22. Neither carry forth thy ftranger that is within thy gates; burden out of your houfes on the that thy man-fervant and thy maid- fabbath day, neither do ye ay fervant may teft as well as thou, work, but hallow ye the fabbath 15. And remember that thou waft day, as I commanded your fathers, a fervant in the land of Egypt, and v. 23. But they obeyed not, ner that the Lord thy God brought thee ther inclined their ear, but made out thence, through a mighty hand, their neck ftiff, that they might not and by a ftretched out arm: there hear Anfw. The Sum of the Six Commandments which ontain our Duty to Man, is to love our Neighour as our felves, and to do to others what we ould have them do to us. 123. Queft. Which is the Fifth Commandment ?d Anfu. The Fifth Commandment is, Honour e Father and thy Mother: that thy Days ay be long upon the Land which the Lozd y God giveth thee * 124. Queft. Who are meant by Father, and Mo , in the Fifth Commandment? " Anfw. By Father and Mother in the Fifth mmandment, are meant not only Natural rents, but all Superiors in Age and ifts and efpecially fuch as by God's Ordince are over us in Place of Authority, whether 257 nor receive inftruction. Nehem. from verse 15. to 23. In thofe ys law I in Judah, fome treading (which is the first commandment with promife.) I Tim. s. 1. Rebuke not an el e-preffes on the fabbath-day--- der, but entreat him as a father, and 2. brethren the younger men, as e in letter 122. Mat. 22.39. And the fecond ike unto it, Thou shalt love thy the ghbour as thy felf. rity. Mat. 7.12. Therefore all things Gen. 4. 20. And Adah bare Ja arfoever ye would that men bal: he was the father of fuch as uld do to you, do ye even fo to dwell in tents, and of fuch as have mfor this is the law and the cattle. v. 21. And his brothers phets. 123. name was Jubal: he was the father a Exod. 20. 12. of all fuch as handle the harp and 124 Prov. 23.22, Hearken unorgan. v. 22. And Zillah, she althy father that begat thee, and fo bare, Tubal-Cain, an instructer pife not thy mother when the of every artificer in brafs and iron:-old. 25. Thy father and thy Gen. 45. 8. So now it was not you other fhall be glad; and the that that fent me hither, but God; and re thee hall rejoice. Eph, 6. 1, he hath made me a father to Pha ildren, obey your parents in the raph, and lord of all his houfe, and e Lord for this is right. v. 2. a ruler throughout all the land of onour thy father and mother, Egypt. 2 Kings in Family, Church, or Common-wealth 125. Queft. Why are Saperiors filed Father and Mother? Anfu. Superiors are ftiled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all Duties towards their Inferiors, like Natural Parents to exprefs Love and Tenderness to them, according to their feveral Re lations; and to work Inferiors, to a greater Wil lingness and Chearfulness in performing their Duties to their Superiors, as to their Parents. 2 Kings 5. 13. And his fervant came near, and fpake unto him, and faid, My father, ifthe prophet had bid thee de fome great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he faith to thee, Wash and be clean? $ 2 Kings 2. 12. And Elifha faw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Ifrael, and the horsemen thereof.--- 2 Kings 13. 14. Now Elifha was fallen fick, of his fickness whereof he died, and Joash the king of Ifrael came down un to him, and wept over his face, and faid, O my father, my father, the chariot of Ifrael, and the horfemen thereof. Gal. 4. 19. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. 126. Quelt parents for the children. Th 2.7. But we were gentle among you even as a nurfe cherifbeth her chil dren: v. 8. So, being affectionate ly defireous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gofpel of God only, but also our own fouls, because ye were dear un to us. v. II. As ye know, how we exhorted and comforted, and char ged every one of you, as a father doth his children. Numb.II. II. And Mofes faid unto the Lord, Where fore haft thou afflicted thy fervant? and wherefore have I not found fi vour in thy fight, that thou layeft the burden of all this people upon me? v. 12. Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them? that thou fhouldft fay unto me, Cary Ifa. 49, 23. And kings fhall them in thy bofom, (as a nurfing be thy nurfing-fathers, and their father beareth the fucking child) queens thy nurfing-mothers: they unto the land which thou fware fhall bow down to thee with their unto their fathers? face toward the earth,and lick up the i 1 Cor. 4. 14. I write not these duft of thy feet, and thou fhalt know that I am the Lord: for they fhall not be ashamed that wait for me. 125. Eph. 6.4. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 2 Cor. 12. 14. ---For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the things to fhame you, but as my be loved fons I warn you. v. 15. For though ye have ten thoufand in ftructers in Chrift, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Chrift Jefus have begotten you through the go fpel. v. 16. Wherefore I befeech you, be ye followers of me. 2. Ki 5.13. [ See letter.} 126. Ep |