cỷ unto Thousands of them that love me, and keep my Commandments P. 50. Q. What is required in the Second Commandment?.. Anfu. The Second Commandmen trequireth, the receiving, obferving, and keeping pure and entire, all fuch Religious Worship and Ordinances as God' hath appointed in his Word 9. 51.Q. What is forbidden in the Second Commandment? Anfw. The Second Commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by Images, or any other Way, not appointed in his Word. 52. Quelt. What are the Reafons annexed to the Second Commandment? 49. P Exod. 20. 4, 5, 6. Aufw. And left thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou feeft the fun, and the moon, and the. ftars, even all the hoft of heaven, fhouldft be driven to worship them, and ferve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. Exod., 32. 5. And when Aaron faw it, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To, morrow is a feaft to the Lord. v. 8. They have turned afide quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a mol ten calf, and have worshipped it, and have facrificed thereunto, and faid, Thefe be thy gods, OIfrael, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. so. q Deut. 32. 46. And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I teftify among you this day; which ye shall command your children to obferve to do, all the words of this law. Matth. 28. 20. Teaching them to obferve all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo, I am with you alway even unto the end of the world. Amen. Acts 2. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apoftles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread,and in prayers. 51. Deut. 4. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto your felves (for ye faw no manner of fimili tude on the day that the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb, out of the midft of the fire) v. 16. Left ye corrupt ↑ Deut. 12.31. Thou shalt not do your felves, and make you a graven fo unto the Lord thy God: for image, the fimilitude of any figure, every abomination to the Lord the likeness of male and female, which he hateth, have they done V. 17. The likeness of any beaft that unto their gods: for even their fons is on the earth, the likeness of any and their daughters they have burnt winged fowl that flyeth in the air, in the fire to their gods. v. 32. 18. The likeness of any thing What thing foever1 command you, that creepeth on the ground, the obferve to do it: thou shalt not add likeness of any fish that is in the thereto, nor diminish from it. waters beneath the earth. v. 19. 6 $2. Pfalm Anfw. The Reasons annexed to the Second Commandment are, God's Sovereignty over us, his Propriety in us,and the Zeal he hath to his ownWorship", 53. Queft. Which is the Third Commandment? Anfw. The Third Commandmentis, Thout that not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain: For the Lozd will not hold him guiltlefs that taketh his Name in vain ». 54. Q.What is required in the Third Commandment? Anfw. The ThirdCommandment requireth,The holy and reverent Use of God's Names ", Titles, Attri butes, Ordinances, Word, and Works 4. t 55.Q 52. Pfalm 95. 2. Let us come be- and the song of the Lamb, faying, fore his prefence with thanksgiving, Great and marvellous are thy works, and make a joyful noise unto him Lord God almighty; juft and true with pfalms. v. 3. For the Lord is a are thy ways, thou King of faints. great God, and a great King above v. 4. Who fhall not fear thee, O all gods. v. 6. O come,let us worship Lord,and glorify thy name? for th and bow down: let us kneel before only art holy: for all nations hall the Lord our maker. come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifeft. is Pfalm 45.11. So fhall the King greatly defire thy beauty: for he thy Lord, and worship thou him. w Exod. 34. 13. But ye fhall deftroy their altars,break their images, and cut down their groves. v.14. For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whofe name Jealous, is a jealous God. 53. Exod. 20. 7. b Mal. I. II. For from the rifing of the fun, even unto the going down of the fame, my name ball be great among the Gentiles, andin every place incenfe fhall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name fhall be great among the heathen, faith the Lord of hots, v. 14. But curfed be the deceiver, 54. Y Matth. 6. 9. After this man- which hath in his flock a male, and ner therefore pray ye: Our Father voweth and facrificeth unto the Lord which art in heaven, hallowed be a corrupt thing: for I am a greatKing, thy name. Deut. 28. 58. Ifthou wilt faith the Lord of hofts, and my name not observe to do all the words of is dreadful among the heathen. this law that are written in this book, * Pfalm 138. 1. I will praise thee that thou mayft fear this glorious with my whole heart, before the and fearful name, THE LORD gods will I fing praife unto thee. THY GOD. z Psalm 68. 4. Sing unto God, fing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JA н, and rejoice before him, a Rev. 15. 3. And they fing the fong of Mofes the fervant of God, v. 2. I will worship towards thy holy thou 55. Queft. What is forbidden in the Third Commandvent? Anfw. The Third Commandment forbiddeth all rofaning or abufing of any thing whereby God naketh himself known ". 56. Queft. What is the Reafon annexed to the Third Commandment? Anfw. The Reafon annexed to the Third Comandment is, That however the Breakers of this Commandment may escape Punishment from Men, et the Lord our God will not fuffer them to escape is righteous Judgment £. ou magnify his work, which men ehold. 57. Quest. $6. I Sam. 2. 12. Now the fons of Eli were fons of Belial, they knew 55. • Mal. 1. 6. A fon honour- not the Lord. v. 17. Wherefore h his father, and a fervant his the fin of the young men was very after: if then I be a father, where great before the Lord; for men abmine honour? and if I be a master, horred the offering of the Lord. here is my fear? faith the Lord of v. 22. Now Eli was very old, and ofts unto you,O priefts,that defpife heard all that his fons did unto all y name and ye fay, Wherein Ifrael, and how they lay with the ave we defpifed thy name? v. 7. women that affembled at the door e offer polluted bread upon mine of the tabernacle of the congregaItar; and ye fay, Wherein have tion. v. 29. Wherefore kick ye at e polluted thee in that ye fay, my facrifice, and at mine offering The table of the Lord is contem- which I have commanded in my hatible. v. 12. But ye have profaned bitation, and honoureft thy fons , in that ye fay, The table of the above me, to make your felves fat ord is polluted, and the fruit there- with the chiefeft of all the offerings of, even his meat is contemptible. of Ifrael my people. 1 Sam. 3. 13. Mal, 2. 2. If ye will not hear, Forl have told him,that I will judge and if ye will not lay it to heart, his houfe for ever, for the iniquity o give glory unto my name, faith which he knoweth: because his fons the Lord of hofts, I will even fend made themselves vile, and he rea curfe upon you, and I will curfe ftrained them not. Deut. 28. 58. your bleffings: yea, I have curfed If thou wilt not obferve to do all them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Mal. 3, 14, Ye have faid, It is vain to ferve God: and what profit is it, that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hofts? the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayst fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; . $9. Then theLord will makethy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy 57. Queft. Which is the Fourth Commandment? Anfw. The Fourth Commandment is, Remem ber the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. Si Days halt thou labour, and do allthy Wok: But the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou shalt not do any Work, thou, noz thy Son, no? thy Daughte thy Man-fervant, noz thy Maid-lervant, no thy Cattle, noz thy Stranger that is withi thy Gates. For in Sir Days the Lozd made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and retted the Seventh Day: Where foze the Lord blefled the Sabbath-day, and hallowed it &. 58. Queft. What is required in the Fourth Com mandment? Anfw. The Fourth Commandment requireth, The keeping holy to God, fuch fet Time as he hath ap pointed in his Word; exprefly one whole Day in Seven, to be a holy Sabbath to himself ". 59. Queft. Which Day of the Seven hath God a pointed to be the Weekly Sabbath? Anfw. From the beginning of the World to the Refurrection of Chrift, God appointed the Seventh Day of the Week to be the Weekly Sabbath, and the first Day of the Week, ever fince, to continue feed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and fore fickneffes, and of long continuance. to the Lord thy God; in it the fhalt not do any work, thou, not thy fon, nor thy daughter, net 57. 8 Exod. 20. 8, 9, 10, II. thy man-fervant, nor thy maid 58. h Deut. 5. 12. Keep the fab- fervant, nor thine ox, nor thre bath-day to fanctifie it, as the Lord afs, nor any of thy cattle, not thy God hath commanded thee. thy ftranger that is within t . 13. Six days fhalt thou labour, gates; that thy man-fervant and and do all thy work: v. 14. But thy maid-servant may reft as wid the feventh day is the fabbath of as thou to the End of the World, which is the Chriftian Sabbath'. 60. Queft. How is the Sabbath to be fanctified? Anfw. The Sabbath is to be fanctified, by a holy refting all that Day, even from fuch Worldly Employments and Recreations, as are Lawful on other Days', and fpending the whole Time in the publick and private Exercifes of God's Wor 59. i Gen. 2. 2. And on the feventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he refted on the feventh day from all his work which he made. 7. 3. And God blessed the seventh day, and fanctified it: becaufe that in it he had refted from all his work, which God created and made. 1 Cor. 16, 1. Now concerning the collection for the faints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even fo do ye. v. 2. Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in ftore, as God hath profpered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Acts 20. 7. And upon the first day of the week, when the difciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his fpeech until midnight. 60. k Exod. 20. 8. Remember the fabbath-day, to keep it holy. v. 10. But the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou halt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, &c. Exod. 16. 25 And Mofes faid, Eat that to day; for to day is a fabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field. . 26. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the feventh day which is the fabbath, in it there fhall be none. 7. 27. And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the feventh day for to gather, and they found none. V. 28. And the Lord faid unto Mofes, How long refufe ye to keep my commandments and my laws? ບ. 16. 1 Neh. 13. 15. In thofe days faw TinJudah fome treading wine-preffes on the fabbath, and bringing in fheaves, and lading affes; as alfo wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerufalem on the fabbath-day: and I teftified against them in the day wherein they fold victuals, There dwelt men of Tyre alfo therein, which brought fish, and all manner of wares, and fold on the fabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerufalem. v. 17. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and faid unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the fabbath-day? v. 18. Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? Yet ye bring more wrath upon Ifrael by profaning the fabbath. v.19 And it came to pafs, that when the gates of Jerufalem began to be dark before the fabbath, I commanded that the gates fhould be fhut, and charged that they fhould not be opened till after the fabbath and fome of my fervants fet I at the gates, that there should be no burden brought in |