57. Which is the fourth Commandment A. The fourth Commandment is Rememmber the Sabbath day to keep it holy Six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man-servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thy Cattle nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in six daies the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the Seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it Q 58. What is required in the fourth Commandment A. The fourth Commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his Word expresly one whole day in seven to be a holy Sabbath unto the Lord. Explic. Q. Doth the fourth Commandment require any special time to be kâ—pt holy A. Yes Q. What time A. Such set time as God hath appointed in his Word Q. What mean you by a set time A. Such a time as is set apart for Gods worship only and wholly all business being laid aside Q. Doth the fourth Commandment then determine of the special time for divine worship as the three foregoing Commandments do of the Object means and manner of worship A. Yes Q. In whose power is it to appoint times for worship A. God who appoints the worship appoints also the time for it in his Word he hath not deputed any of this Power to any other Q. Hath God left us to keep what time we please A. No. Q. What proportion of time hath God more solemnly set apart for his worship A. One whole day in Seven Q. Is this Commandment to be understood of the seventh day in order so as to be limited to the last of the seven or is it to be understood of a seventh in number that is One in Seven A. It is to be understood of a seventh in number and this proportion of time the Gospel-Law never repealed Q. Is the fourth Commandment then a moral precept that is to say of perpetual force binding Christians now as well as the Iews heretofore to the observation of it A. Yes Q. How is this day to be spent A. As an holy Sabbath unto God Q. What is meant by that A. It is meant that we spend this whole day to Gods glory as he hath commanded us Deut. 5. 12. Q. 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbâ—â—â— A. From the beginning of the World to the Resurrection of Christ God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath and the first day of the week ever since to continue to the end of the world which is the Christian Sabbath Explic. Q. How long did God appoint the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath A. From the beginning of the World to the Resurrection Q. Was it not only from the time of the giving of the Law by Moses A. No it was ordained for man in Paradise in the beginning of the World Q. Is that to continue or is it changed A. It is changed to the first day of the week Q. But why do you observe the first day of the week when the Commandment speaks of the seventh A. In memory of Christs rising from the Dead on the first day that he might enter into his glorious rest having here finished his work of Redemption For which there is the example of the holy Apostles and the Church of God Q. Is this day any more to be changed â— is it to continue A. It is to continue to the end of the World Q What is it câ—lled A. The Christian Sabbath to distinguish it from the Jewish seventh day Sabbath Q May it be lawfully so called A. Yes it is no where forbidden to be so called though the most proper Name be the Lords Day Rev. 1. 10. Q. 60. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by an holy resting all that day even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other daies and spending the whole time in the publick and private exercises of Gods worship except so much as is to be taken up in the works of Necessity and Mercy Explic. Q. Is the Sabbath to be sanctâ—fiâ—d A. Yes Q. In what sense is God said to sanctifie the holy Sabbath A. In making it holy by way of Consecration Q. In what sense are we said to sanctifie the Sabbath A. In keeping it holy by way of application viz. applying it to those ends and exercises for which God did consecrate it Q. What is required that the Sabbath may be sanctified A. Two things 1. Resting is required Q. What kind of resting must it be a meer civil rest A. No. Q. Or a meer carnal and bodily resting such as the Ox and the Ass must have on the Sabbath A. No Q. What kind of resting then is required on the Sabbath day A. An holy resting Q. How long must this be A. All that day Q. From what must we rest from spiritiual employments and recreations A. No. Q. From what then A. From worldly employments and recreations Q. When may these lawfully be used A. On other days so we use them aright Q. What else is required that the Sabbath may be sanctified A. 2. Spending the time in the exercises of Gods worship and this makes the rest to be an holy rest Q May we stay at home and spend our time in the private exercises of Gods worship with the neglect of the publick A. No Q. May we not rest satisfied in giving attendance on the publick worship but must we be also careful at home in private A. Yes Q. How much time must we spend in the publick and private exercises of Gods worship A. The whole time except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy Q. What do you mean by works of Necessity A. Such as could not be done before and cannot be deferred until after the Sabbath Q. How are we to perform the duties of the day A. 1. We are to perform the publick and private exercises of Gods worship on the Sabath day 1. With sincerity having a single respect unto the honour and glory of God whose day the Sabbath is Isa. 58. 13. 2. With reverence and that both of body and mind Eccl. 5. 1. 1 Cor. 6. 20. Heb. 12. 28 29. Isa. 66. 1. 3. With diligence and attention Acts 16. 13 14. Deut 6. 7. Acts 17. 11. and 10. 33. 4. With Love and fervour of Spirit Rom. 12. 11. 5. With delight Psal. 42. 4. Deut. 16. 14. Isa. 58. 13. 1 Ioh. 5. 3. 2. We must do works of Necessity and Mercy with chearfulness and without anxiety of mind and doubtful scrupulosity Rom. 12. 8. Mat. 12. 11 12. Q. 61. What is forbidden in the fourth Commandment A.
Conclusion of the Lords Prayer A. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Amen Q. What doth the Conclusion of the Lords Prayer teach us A. It teacheth us to take our encouragement in Prayer from God only Q. Is this an encouragement to us in Prayer that the Kingdom or Rule or Soveraignty is Gods and therefore he may give us what he pleaseth A. Yes Q And that the Power is Gods and therefore he can do according to and above all our necessities let our case be what it will A. Yes Q. And that the Glory belongs to God and therefore we are encouraged from the glorious excellencies of his nature to expect and for the furtherance and promoting of his own honour to desire the fulfilling of our requests A. Yes Q. What else doth the Conclusion teach us A. It teacheth us in our Prayers to Praise him or to joyn praises to our Prayers by ascribing Kingdom Power and Glory to him only 1 Chron. 29. 11 12 13. Q. And is Gods Kingdom Power and Glory then the matter both of Gods praise and of our encouragement A. Yes Q. Is God praised by us in our ascribing all Kingdom Power and Glory to him and in extoling his excellencies and Prerogatives A. Yes 1 Tim. 6. 15 16. Q. How long must we thus glorifie and praise God A. For ever Q. And why do we say Amen as the Conclusion of this and of all our Prayers A. In testimony of our desire and assurance to be heard Q Is that then the meaning of our saying Amen in the close of our Prayers So let it be and so it shall be as such phrases imply both earnestness in desiring and confidence of speeding A. Yes The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of Sins the Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting Amen The Ten Commandments Exodus 20. GOD spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the House of Bondage 1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the Water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them not serve them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments 3. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain 4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Six daies shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man-servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thy Cattle nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in six daies the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the Seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it 5. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy daies may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee 6. Thou shalt not Kill 7. Thou shalt not commit Adultery 8. Thou shalt not Steal 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour 10. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-Servant nor his Maid-Servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours The Lords Prayer Matth. 6. OVR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our Debts as we forgive our Debtors And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Amen Acts 8. 30. Understandest thou what thou readest GOD avouched Israel to be his peculiar people In Iudah is God known his Name is great in Israel God erected a partition-wall between the Jew and the Gentile but Christ took it down And now in every Nation be that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him And this Ethiopian Eunuch although of the Line of cursedâ— Ham becomes a Believer upon Philip's Preaching to him Jesus We see how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called Yet there are some of the most Noble and Officers of great honour and trust whom God is pleased to call over to himself Of this chosen and royal Priesthood whom God called out of darkness into his marvellous light were David Solomon Iehâ—shaphat You may read David's conquests 2 Sam. 8. and 10. Chapters Solomon's honour 2 Chron. 1. 12. How the Realm of Iehoshaphat was quiet for his God gave him rest round about 2 Chron. 17. 6. and 20. 30. And you see of what Authority this Eunuch was under Candace Queen of the Ethiopians Verse 27. The Law is our School-master to bring us unto Christ Yea even Proselytism it self is here an Introduction to such a blessing Philip had a Vision and therein an Angel from Heaven spake unto him to go towards the South unto the way that goeth down from Ierusalem to Gaza which is desart where he light on the Ethiopian Eunuch Vers. 26 27. And finding him studious of the way of God reading the Evangelical Prophet vers 28. by prophetick divine efflation or revelation he is directed to go near to the Chariot and speak to him vers 28. The which he did with the greatest readiness running to the Chariot and there hearing him read Esaias the Prophet said to him in the words of the Text Vnderstandest thou what thou readest Which words we may call the Deacons serious profitable question to the Eunuch with set purpose according to the guidance of Gods Spirit to be an Interpreter unto him The division of the words would be more curious than useful That every sincere serious Christian that doth in good earnest look after the Salvation of his Soul will diligently read the holy Scriptures is here to be supposed
there something then required as well as forbidden in this and every Commandment A. Yes Q How many duties are there chiefly required in the first Commandment A. Three Q. What is the first A. The first Duty required is to know God Q. What ought we to know of God A. 1. That he is 2. What he is Heb. 11. 6. Q. What is the second Duty herein required A. To acknowledge God Q. How ought we to acknowledge God A. We ought to acknowledge God 1. To be as he is the only 〈◊〉 God 2. We ought to acknowledge him 〈◊〉 our God Q. What is the third Duty required 〈◊〉 this Commandment A. To worship and glorifie God accordingly Q How is that A. As the only true God and our God Q. Are we required to worship God with the inward worship of the mind viz. 〈◊〉 trust in him and to love fear esteem desire and obey him A. Yes Q. And with the outward worship also A. Yes Q. What do you mean by outward worship A. The expressing the inward worship of the mind in our Faith Love and obedience towards God by the reverteâ— performance of all external acts of divine worship commanded by him and more especially by our daily Prayerâ— unto him and praises of him Q. Doth the first Commandment determine of the only right object of divine worship or whom only we must serve A. Yes Mat 4. 10. Q. 47. What is forbidden in the first Commandment A. The first Commandment forbiddeth the denying or not worshipping and glorifying the true God as God and our God and the giving that worship and glory to any other which is due to him alone Explic. Q. What are the chief sins forbidden in the first Commandment A. 1. Atheism which is the denying any God or the true God 2. Idolatry which is 1. The not worshipping and glorifying the true God The which we do 1. If we do not worship him as God Or 2. Not as our God 2. The giving that worship and glory to any other which is due to him alone Q. It is Idolatry to give outward worship to any other viz. to pray to Saints or Angels or any Creature A. Yes Q. And is it Idolatry to give inward worship to any other viz. to Love Fear Desire or Trust in any thing more than God A. Yes Q. Why so A. Because hereby is given that worship and glory to another which is due to God alone Rom. 1. 25. Ibid. Q. 48. What are we especially taught by these words before me in the first Commandment A. These words before me in the first Commandment teach us that God who seeth all things taketh notice of and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God Explic. Q. What things are to be learn'd from these words before me A. Two things 1. That God seeth all things 2. That God taketh notice of and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God Q. 49. Which is the second Commandment A. The second Commandment is Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down thy self unto them nor serve them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments Q. 50. What is required in the second Commandment A. The Second Commandment requireth the receiving observing and keeping pure and entire all such religious Worship and Ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word Explic. Q. How doth the worship required in the second Commandment differ from the worship required in the first A. The worship required in the first Commandment hath a respect unto the object of worship whereby we are bound to worship the true God and none else The worship required in the second hath a respect unto the means and manner of worship whereby we are bound to worship God according to the way and means of his own appointment Q. What is the way and means which God hath appointed for his worship A. The only way and means which God hath appointed for his worship is his Ordinances which he hath prescribed in his Word Q. What Ordinances A. 1. Prâ—yer unto God with thanksgiving and that publickly in Assemblies privately in Families and secretly in Closets 2. Reading and searching the Scriptures 1 Tim. 4. 13. Ioh. 5. 39. Neh. 8. 8. Acts 15. 21. 3. Preaching and hearing of the Word 2 Tim. 4. 2. Isa. 55. 3. 4. Singing of Psalms Psal. 149. 1. Iam. 5. 13. 5. Administration and receiving of the Sacraments both of Baptism and the Lords Supper Mat. 28. 19. 1 Cor. 11. 23 26. 6. Fasting Ioel 2. 12. Esther 4. 3 16. 1 Kings 21. 27 28 29. 1 Sam. 7. 6 10. Ionab 3. 5 10. Luk. 5. 35. 7. Instruction of Children and Households in the way of the Lord. Gen. 18. 19. Deut. 6. 6 10. Ephes. 6. 4. 8. Holy Conference and Religious Discourse Mal. 3. 16. Luke 24. 17 32. 9. Meditation Psal 1. 2. and 77. 12. 1 Tim. 4. 15. 10. Vows to the Lord. Psal. 76. 11. 11. Swearing by the Name of the Lord when lawfully called Deut. 6. 13. Ier. 4. 2. and 12. 16. 12. Exercise of Church-Discipline 1 Cor. 5. 3 4 5 11. with 2 Cor. 2 6 7 8. Mat. 18. 18. Q. What doth God require in the second Commandment in reference to his Ordinances and means of worship A. He requireth the receiving observing and keeping of them pure and entire Q. What is it to receive and observe Gods Worship and Ordinances A. To receive and observe them is heartily to entertain embrace and attend on them as oft as opportunity is offered and to make answerable improvement of them Q. What is it to keep them pure and entire A. To take diligent heed that they be not corrupted by our own inventions and additions Q. How know you what Worship and Ordinances God hath required A. God hath appointed all his worsh'p and Ordinances in his Word Q. 51. What is forbidden in the second Commandment A. The second Commandment forbideth the worshipping of God by Images or any other way not appointed in his Word Explie Q. What are the chief sins forbidden in this Commandment A. Idolatry and Superstition Q. Is it Idolatry not only to worship Idols instead of God which is forbidden in the first Commandment but also to worship God by Images A. Yes Q. How can persons be guilty of Idolatry in worshipping God by Images when they worship the true God the God that made the Heavens and the Earth A. Because the Images of these men either do bear resemblance to the object of their worship
God doth make himself known 1. By his Names which he hath given unto himself in the holy Scriptures such as God Lord I am Iehovah Iab and the like 2. By his Titles such as Lord of Host Holy one of Israel The God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob Creator of the ends of the Earth Preserver of Men The King of Kings and Lord of Lords The King of Nations The King of Saints The God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ The Father of Mercies The God of all Consolation and Salvation The Hearer of Prayers and the like 3. By his Attributes his Infiniteness Eternity and Unchangeableness Power Wisdom and Goodness 4. By his Ordinances Prayer Preaching the Word by Ordained Ministers or Officers commissioned thereunto and Hearing and the Sacraments 5. By his Word Law and Gospel 6. By his Works of Creation and Providence Q. What doth the third Commandment require in reference unto these things whereby God makes himself known A. The holy and reverend use of them Q. What do you mean by that A. The separate special and distinct respect for all such things and Persons as have the Name of God called upon them and do more immediately relate to his service Q. 55. What is forbidden in the third Commandment A. The third Commandment forbiddeth all prophaning or abusing of any thing whereby God makes himself known Explic. Q What is the general sin here forbidden A. All prophaning and abusing of any thing whereby God makes himself known Q. How doth God make himself known A. By his aforesaid Names Titles Atributes Ordinances Word and Works Q When are these prophaned and abused A. Where either things or persons wherein and whereby God is honoured and whereupon his holy Name is called are undervalued or despâ—sed being slightly or vainly used any other way and to â—ny other end than God in his Word hath directed and commanded Q. What are the chief sins forbidden in this commandment A. 1. Perjury or Swearing by the Name of God falsly 2. Swearing by Idols or false Gods which are the vanities of the Gentiles 3. Unjust Swearing or Swearing to do that which is unjust and in it self unlawful to be done This sin having the addition of the solemnness of an Oath i a double iniquity and obligeth a man to nothing but a deep unseâ—â—gned Repentance 4. Swearing by the Creatures 5. Vain or frequent Swearing when men Swear in a light matter and upon every trivial occasion or without urgent necessity a just and weighty cause that only can warrant an Oath 6. Breaking those Oaths made by the Creatures as not binding and valid For although Christ prohibit Swearing by the Creatures yet he ever enjoyns performances agreable to such Oaths because of the Creatures relation to God whom he will make instruments of vengeance to fulfill his Wâ—ll and execute his pleasure against false and vain Swearers 7. Presumptuous proud daring and unadvisable adjuration cursings and execrations when men prophanely curse themselves or others as God refuse me God damn us or them in the Name of the true God or by false Gods whose Names we ought not to take up into our mouths 8. B'asphemy and reproach of the sacred Name of God and of those that bear his Name or stand in any special relation to him 9. The irreverent use of the Name of God or of any thing whereby God makes himself known Q. 56. What is the reason annexed to the third Commandment A. The reason annexed to the third Commandment is That however the breakers of this Commandment may escape punishment from man yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous Judgement Explic. Q. In what words is the reason annexed to this Commandment expressed A. In these words For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Q. How is it that there are so many breakers of this Commandment A. Because they escape punishment from men Q. Hath God impowered any men to punish the breakers of his Laws A. Yes Mâ—gistrates Parents and Governours of Families Q. Whence is it that they escape punishment A. Either through Magistrates ignorance negligence or partiality in the Law or through Parents fondness Q. Will God suffer them to escape too A. The Lord will not suffer them to escape his Judgement Q. Why so A. Because his is a righteous Judgement Q. Will the Lord punish all those that profane or abuse his Names Titles and Attributes A. Yes Psal. 44. 20 21. Acts 19. 13 18. Hos. 4. 2 3. Zach. 5. 3 4. and Deut. 32 18 26. 2 Kings 19. 22 32 to the end and Psal. 78. 19 20 21 30 31. 2 Kings 7. 1 2 17. Q. And those that prophane or abuse the Ordinances of God viz. Prayer Preaching or exercising the Priests Office hearing the word and the Sacraments A. Yes the Lord will punish all such as prophane or abuse any of these Ordinances as you find proved by Scripture in the aforesaid order He will punish all those that prophane or abuse 1. Prayer Mat. 23. 14. 2. Preaching and exercising the Priests Office 2 Chron. 26. â—6 22. 1 Sam. 13 9 13 14. 2 Câ—r 11. 13 15. 2 Tim. 3. 8 9. Phil. 3. 18 19. 2. Forbidding to Preach 1 Thes. 2. 16. 3. Hearing the Wâ—rd Luke 10. 16. Acts 20. 9. Ezek. 33. 31 32 33. 4. The two Sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper 1. Baptism is prophaned or abused two waits 1. When unordained Ministers Baptize in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost this is a sinful intrusion and a taking Gods Name in vain 2. When this necessary Oâ—dinance is sleighted and despised Heb. 6. 2. Gen. 17. 14. Exod. 4. 24 25 26. with Acts 2. 38 39 40 41 42. Mat. 3. 7. Luke 7. 30. 2. The Lords Supper 1 Cor. 11. 27 29 30. Q Will not the Lord hold them guiltless that prophane or abuse his Word or Works A. No. 1. He will punish all that prophane or abuse his Word Law or Gospel Isa. 30. 9 15. Ier. 23. 33. to the end and 8. 9 10. Hos. 4. 6. Rom. 7. 7. Gal. 3. 24. Isa. 53. 11. Phil. 3. 8 9. and Heb. 2. 2 3. Acts 13. 46. 51. with Mat. 10. 14 15. 2. He wiâ—l punish all that prophane or abuse either the works of Creation or Providence Psal. 8. 1 3. and 19. 1. with 28. 5. Isa. 5. 12 16. Dâ—n 4. 32 37. Q. When doth the Lord punish them that prophane or abuse his Name A. 1. Sometimes in this life and that with dreadful temporal Plagues Deuâ— 28 58 59. Mal. 3. 5. Zach. 5. 1 5. 2. But if such escape here they shall not escape Gods eternal wrath and vengeance hereafter Rom. 2. 5 6 8 9 11. Q