Jealous, Highly concerned for his own honor. Vifiting the iniquities. Punishing the fins. 50. Q. What is required in the fecond commandment? A. The fecond commandment requireth the receiving, obferving, and keeping pure and entire all fuch religious worship and ordinances, as God hath appointed in his word. Ordinances. Appointments of God. Pure. Without mixture of the inventions of men. Entire. Without omitting any part of what God has appointed. 51. Q. What is forbidden in the fecond commandment? A. The fecond commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his word. Images. The refemblance of any thing made by engraving, painting, or carving, or cafting in a mould, or any other way whatsoever. 52. Q. What are the reafons annexed to the fecond command ment? A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God's fovereignty over us, his propriety in us, and the zeal he hath for his own worship. Annexed. Joined. Sovereignty. Higheft dominion and authority. Propriety. Chief right to any thing, or fpecial intereft in it. Zeal. Warm concern. 53. Q. Which is the third commandment? A. The third commandment is, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltlefs that taketh his name in vain.” Take God's name in vain. Ufe it in a trifling manner without seriousness. Not hold him guiltless. Condemn and punish him. 54. Q. What is required in the third commandment? A. The third commandment requireth the holy and reverend use of God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, words, and works. Reverend ufe. Names of God. Titles of God. Lord Jefus Chrift. Ufing with holy fear. Such as, God, Lord, Jehovah, &c. Such as, Lord of Hofts, Holy One of Ifrael, God and Father of our Attributes. The perfections and properties of God: Such as, truth, holiness, goodpeís, &c. Ordinances.. See answer 50. 55. Q. What is forbidden in the third commandment? -A. The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abufing of any thing whereby God makes himself known. Profaning or abusing. Ufing it for any trifling or finful purposes, or cafting any difhonor upon it. 56. Q. What is the reafon annexed to the third commandment? A. The reafon annexed to the third commandment is, that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not fuffer them to escape his righteous judgment. 57. Q. Which is the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment is, "Remember the fabbath-day to keep it holy, fix days fhalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy man-fervant, nor thy maid-fervant, nor thy cattle, nor the ftranger that is within thy gates: For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the seventh day; wherefore the Lord bleffed the fabbath-day, and hallowed it." Sabbath-day. The day of holy rest. Hallowed. Sanctified or fet apart for holy ufes. 58. Q. What is required in the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God fuch fet times as he hath appointed in his word, expreísly one whole day in feven, to be an holy fabbath to himself. 59. Q. Which day of the feven hath God appointed to be the weekly fabbath? A. From the beginning of the world to the refurrection of Chrift, God appointed the feventh day of the week to be the weekly fabbath, and the first day of the week ever fince, to continue to the end of the world, which is the chriftian fabbath. Refurrection of Chrift. His rifing from the dead. Chriftian fabbath. Day of rest for chrittians from worldly business and pleasure, and the day of the public worship of God through Chrift. 60. Q. How is the fabbath to be fanctified? A. The fabbath is to be fanctified by an 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 public and private exercifes of Gcd's worship, except fo much as is to be taken up in the works of neceffity and mercy. Sanctified. Uled or spent in a holy manner. Employment and recreation. Bufinefs and sport. Works of neceffity. Eating, drinking, taking care of health, feeding of cattle, &c. 61. Q. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omiffion, or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself finful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words or works, about worldly employments and recreations. Omiffion. The not performing. Profaning. See anfwer 55. 62. Q. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment? A. The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us fix. days of the week for our own employments, his challenging a special propriety in the feventh, his own example, and his blefling the fabbath-day. Challenging. Laying claim to. Propriety. See answer 52. Biefing the fabbath. Appointing it to be a blessed time, or a day wherein men shall be blessed. 63. Q. Which is the fifth commandment? A. The fifth commandment is, "Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Honour thy father and thy mother. Esteem, obey them, and maintain them if needful. 64. Q. What is required in the fifth commandment? A. The fifth commandment requireth the preferving the honor, and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as fuperiors, inferiors, or equals. Superiors. Those who are above us, as parents, mafters, rulers. Inferiors. Thofe that are below us, as fons, daughters, fervants. Equals. Thofe that are of our own rank, as brothers, fifters, neighbours. 65. Q. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment? A. The fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing any thing against the honor and duty which belongeth to every one in their feveral places and relations. Neglecting the honor, Not giving, or not paying due respect. 66. Q. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment? A. The reafon annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and profperity, as far as it shall serve for God's glory, and their own good, to all such as keep this commandment. Profperity. Happiness in this world, or the bleffings of this life. 67. Q. Which is the fixth commandment? A. The fixth commandment is, "Thou shalt not kill." 68. Q. What is required in the fixth commandment? A. The fixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life, and the life of others. 69. Q. What is forbidden in the fixth commandment? A. The fixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, and whatfoever tendeth thereunto. Unjufly, Without jutt and good reason. 70. Q. Which is the feventh commandment? A. The feventh commandment is, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." 71. Q. What is required in the feventh commandment? A. The feventh commandment requireth the prefervation of our own, and our ighbour's chastity, in heart, fpeech, and behaviour. Chastity, Modesty, freedom from luft or finful defire. 72. Q. What is forbidden in the feventh commandment? A. The feventh commandment forbiddeth all unchafte thoughts, words and actions. Unchafte Immodcft, wanton, unclean. 73. Q Which is the eighth commandment? A. The eighth commandment is, "Thou shalt not fteal." 74. Q. What is required in the eighth commandment? A. The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth, and outward eftate of ourfelves and others. 75. Q. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment? A. The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatfoever doth, or may unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbour's wealth or outward eftate. 76. Q. Which is the ninth commandment? A. The ninth commandment is, "Thou shalt not bear falfe witness against thy neighbour." 77. Q. What is required in the ninth commandment? A. The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own, and our neighbour's good name, especially in witness-bearing. Maintaining and promoting of truth. Preferving truth and carrying it on. 78. Q. What is forbidden in the ninth commandment? A. The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own or our neighbour's good name. Prejudicial, injurious. Hurtiul. 79. Q. Which is the tenth commandment? A The tenth commandment is, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's houfe, thou fhalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-fervant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." Coveting. Sinful or unreasonable defire. 80. Q. What is required in the tenth commandment? A. The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition, with a right and charitable frame of spirit towards our neighbour, and all that is his. Contentment. A quiet and eafy temper of mind in our own ftate. Charitable. Loving or bearing good-will to another. 81. Q. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment? A. The tenth commandment forbiddeth all difcontentment with our own eftate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to any thing that is his. Difcontentment. A temper of mind unquiet or uneafy in our own fitate. To envy. To be uneafy at another's welfare, Inordinate motions and affections. Unreasonable and ungoverned defires and wishes. 82. Q. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? A. No mere man fince the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but daily doth break them in thought, word, and deed. 83. Q. Are all tranfgreffions of the law equally heinous ? A. Some fins in themselves, and by reafon of several aggravations, are more heinous in the fight of God than others. Heinous. Hateful. Aggravation. That which makes an offence more grievous and faulty. 84. Q. What doth every fin deserve? A. Every fin deferveth God's wrath and curfe, both in this life and that which is to come. Curfe. See anfwer 19. 85. Q. What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curfe due to us for fin? A. To escape the wrath and curfe of God due to us for fin, God requireth of us faith in Jefus Chrift, repentance unto life, with the diligent ufe of all the outward means, whereby Chrift communicateth to us the benefits of redemption, Faith. See anfwier 30, and 86. Repentance unto life. Such forrow for fin, fuch hatred of it, and forfaking it, as is neceffary to eternal life. See answer 87. Communicate. Give or beftow. Benefits of redemption. Bleffings of the gospel procured by Christ See answer 32. 86. Q. What is faith in Jefus Chrift? A. Faith in Jefus Chrift is a faving grace, whereby we receive, and rest upon him alone for falvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel. Saving grace. Principle or temper in the heart which is given us by the favor of God, and ends in the faving of the foul. As he is offered to us in the gospel, that is, as a prophet, as a priest, as a king, aș an example, &c. 87. Q. What is repentance unto life? A Repentance unto life is a faving grace, whereby a finner out of a true fenfe of his fin, and apprehenfion of the mercy of God in Chrift, doth with grief and hatred of his fin turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavors after new obedience. Apprehenfion. Perceiving, knowing. Mercy of God in Chrif. Mercy which is promifed to us, or which God bestows on us for the fake of Christ. 88. Q. What are the outward nieans whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption, are his ordinances, efpecially the word, facraments and prayer, all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation. Ordinances. See answer 50. Sacraments. See answer 92. Effectual Powerful. 89. Q. How is the word made effectual to falvation? A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the word, an effectual means of convincing and converting finners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith unto falvation. To convince finners. To make them know and believe their fin and danger, and the way of falvation. Convert finners. Turn their hearts to love God and truft in Chrift. Build them up. Make them increase. 90. Q. How is the word to be read and heard, that it come effectual to falvation? may be A. That the word may become effectual to falvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer, receive it with faith, and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practise it in our lives. Preparation Endeavouring to put the heart in a right frame. Faith. Belief. 91. Q. How do the facraments become effectual means of falvation? A. The facraments become effectual means of falvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth adminifter them, but only by the bleffing of Chrift, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them, Virtue. Sufficient power. Adminißer. Perform or diftribute by way of office. Bieffing of Chrift Chrift's powerful influence for our good. 92. Q. What is a facrament? A. A facrament is an holy ordinance inflituted by. Chrift, wherein by fenfible figns Chrift and the benefits of the new covenant are reprefented, fealed and applied to believers. Inftituted. Appointed, commanded. Senfible figns, Marks or tokens that are perceived by the fenfes, viz. feeing, feeling, tasting. New covenant. The covenant of grace, or the gospel. Reprefented. Set forth in a lively manner as in a picture of refemblance. Sealed, Confirmed and affured to us, as the poffeffion of a house or land is made fure to a perfon by a feal fet to a writing. Applied. Conveyed or given. Believers. Those who truft in Christ, or have faith in him. 93. Q. What are the facraments of the New Teftament? A. The facraments of the New Teftament are baptifm and the Lord's-fuppet. 94. Q. What is baptifm? A. Bapuím is a facrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth fignify and feal our ingrafting into Chrift, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace and our engagement to be the Lord's. Ingrafting into Chrift. Our entrance into christianity, or union to Christ. Benefits of the covenant of grace. See answer 32. To be the Lord's. To be entirely given up to the fervice of Chrift, and to his difpofal. 95. Q. To whom is baptifin to be administered? A. Baptifm is not to be administered to any who are out of the vifible church till they profefs their faith in Chrift and obedience to him; but the infants of fuch as are: members of the visible church are to be baptized, Adminifter. See answer 91. Vifible church. All that profefs the true religion with their lips, and openly practife it in their life, are the members which make up the visible church. It is called vifible, because it is to be seen by men, whereas the invisible church is made up of those who have true religion in the heart, which God only knows and fees. 96. Q. What is the Lord's-fupper? A. The Lord's-fupper is a facrament, wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine according to Chrift's appointment, his death is thewed forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace. Worthy receivers. Those who are fit to receive the Lord's-fupper, and do receive it in a right manner, Corporcal. Bodily. Gurnal. Fleshly. Partakers of his body and blood. United to Chrift, and partakers of the bleffings procured by his death. Spiritual nourishment and growth in grace. The foul's increase or improvement in holiness. 97. Q. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord'sfupper? A. It is required of them who would worthily partake of the Lord's-fupper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to difcern the Lord's body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience, left coming unwor thily, they eat and drink judgment to themfelves. Worthily partake. Eat and drink of the bread and wine with a heart prepared for it. To difcern the Lord's body. To know and confider that the bread and wine reprefent the body and blood of Christ. To feed upon Chrift by faith. To derive bleffings from him by trusting in him. Eat and drink judgment. Expofe themselves to the displeasure of God by eating and drinking the bread and wine unworthily. 98. Q. What is prayer? A. Prayer is an offering up of our defires to God for things agreeable to his will in the name of Chrift, with confeffion of our fins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies. In the name of Chrift. Hoping to obtain mercy for the fake of Chrift. 93. Q. What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer? A. The whole word of God is of ufe to direct us in prayer, but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Chrift taught his difciples, commonly called, the Lord's prayer. Note, It were to be wished that the reverend authors had declared this form of prayer not to be fo complete a pattern for chriftians in all ages, fince Chrift did not here teach his difciples to pray in his name, as he did afterward. See John xvi. 23, 24. 100. Q. What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us? A. The preface of the Lord's prayer, which is, "Our Father, which art in heaven" teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father able and ready to help us, and that we should pray with and for others. Preface. See answer 43. Reverence and confidence. Fear and hope. 101. Q. What do you pray for in the first petition? A. In the first petition, which is, "Hallowed be thy name," we pray that God |