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Q55. What is forbidden in the third commandment?

A. The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abufing of any thing whereby God maketh himfelf known e.

Q. 56. 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 punish

THE LORD THY GOD.

z Pfal. lxviii. 4. Sing unto God, fing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

Rev. xv. 3. And they fing the fong of Mofes the fervant of God, and the fong of the Lamb, faying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; juft and true are thy ways, thou King of faints. v. 4. Who fhall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations fhall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifeft.

Mal. i. 11. For from the rifing of the fun, even unto the going down of the fame, my name fhall be great among the Gentiles, and in 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 hofts. V. 14. But curfed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth and facrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, faith the Lord of hofts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen..

e Pfal. cxxxviii. 1. I will praife thee with my whole heart, before the gods will I fing praife unto thee. v. 2. I will worship towards thy ho

ly temple, and praife thy name, for thy loving kindness, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

d Job xxxvi. 24. Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

55. e Mal. i. 6. A fon honoureth his father, and a fervant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour; and if I be a master, where is my fear? faith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priefts, that despise my name: and ye fay, Wherein have we defpifed thy name? v. 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye fay, Wherein have we polluted thee? in that ye fay, The table of the Lord is contemptible. v. 12. But ye have profaned it, in that ye fay, The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meat is contemptible. Mal. ii. 2. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, faith the Lord of hofts, I will even fend a curfe upon you, and I will curfe your bleflings: yea, I have curfed them already, becaufe ye do not lay it to heart. Mal. iii. 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?

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punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not fuffer them to escape his righteous judgment f.

Q. 57. Which is the fourth commandment?

A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the fabbathday to keep it holy. Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thon fhalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, thy man-fervant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the feventh day: wherefore the Lord bleffed the fabbath-day, and hallowed itg.

Q. 58. 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; exprefly one whole day in feven, to be a holy fabbath to himfelf b.

Q. 59. Which day of the feven hath God appointed to be the weekly fabbath?

56. f1 Sam. ii. 12. Now the fons of Eli were fons of Belial, they knew not the Lord. v. 17. Wherefore the fin of the young men was very great before the Lord; for men abhorred the offering of the Lord. v. 22. Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his fons did unto all Ifrael, and how they lay

with the women that affembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. v. 29. Wherefore kick ye at my facrifice, and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation, and honoureft thy fons above me, to make your felves fat with the chiefeft of all the offerings of Ifrael my people? 1 Sam. iii. 13. For I have told him, that I will judge his houfe for ever, for the iniquity which he knoweth: because his fons made themselves vile,

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and he reftrained them pot. Deut. xxviii. 58. If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayeft fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; v. 59. Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy feed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and fore fickneffes, and of long continuance.

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57.8 Exod. xx. 8, 9, 10, 11.

58. b Deut. v. 12. Keep the fabbath-day to fanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. V. 13. Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all thy works: v. 14. 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, nor thy man-fervant, nor thy maid-fervant, nor thine ox,

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A. From the beginning of the world to the refurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly fabbath; and the first day of the week, ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Chriftian fabbath i.

Q. 60. How is the fabbath to be fanctified?

A. The fabbath is to be fanctified, by a holy refting all that day k, even from fuch worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days /; and spending the whole time in

nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy ftranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-fervant and thy maid-servant may reft as well as thou.

59. i Gen. ii. 2. And on the feventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the feventh day from all his work which he had made. v. 3. And God blessed the seventh day, and fanctified it because that in it he had refted from all his work, which God created and made. 1 Cor. xvi. 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 store, as God hath profpered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Acts xx. 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 speech until midnight.

60. k Exod. xx. 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 fhalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, &c. Exod. xvi. 25. And Mofes faid, Eat that to day; for to

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day is a fabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field. v. 26. Six days ye fhall gather it; but on the feventh day which is the fabbath, in it there fhall be none. v. 27. And it came to pafs, that there went out fome 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 law?

I Neh. xiii. 15. In those days faw Iin Judah 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. v. 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also 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

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the publick and private exercises of God's worshipm, except fo much as is to be taken up in the works of necetlity and

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Q. 61. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omithion or careless performance of the duties required o, and the profaning the day by idleness p, or doing that which is in itfelf

to pass, that when the gates of Jerufalem began to be dark before the fabbath, I commanded that the gates fhould be shut, and charged that they fhould not be opened till after the fabbath: and fome of my fervants fet I at the gates, that there fhould be no burden brought in on the fabbath-day. v. 21. Then I teftified against them, and faid unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? If ye do fo again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the fabbath. v. 22. And I commanded the Levites, that they should cleanse themfelves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to fanctify the fabbath-day: Remember me, O my God, concerning this alfo, and fpare me according to the greatnefs of thy mercy.

m Luke iv. 16. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the fynagogue on the fabbath-day, and stood up for to read. Acts xx. 7. And upon the first day of the week, &c. (See, letter i.) Pfal. xcii. Title. A pfalm or fong for the fabbath-day. Ifa. lxvi. 23. And it shall come to pafs, that from one new-moon to another, and from one fabbath to another, fhall all fiefh come to worship before me, faith the Lord,

» Mat. xii, from ver. 1. to 31. At that time Jesus went on the fabbath

day through the corn, and his difciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. v. 2. But when the Pharices, &c. v. 12.-It is lawful to do weil on the fabbath-days.

61.. Ezek. xxii. 26. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they fhewed difference between the unclean and clean, and have hid their eyes from my fabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Amos vii. 5. Saying, When will the newmoon be gone, that we may fell corn? and the fabbath, that we may fet forth wheat, making the ephah fmall, and the fhekel great, and falfifying the balances by deceit? Mal. i. 13. Ye faid alfo, Behold, what a weariness is it and ye have inuffed at it, faith the Lord of hofts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the fick; thus ye brought an offering: fhould I accept this of your hands, faith the Lord?

p Acts xx. 7. And upon the firft 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. v. 9. And there fatima window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep fleep: and as Paul was

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felf finful q, or by unneceffary thoughts, words or works, about our worldly employments or recreations r.

Q, 62. 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 fpecial propriety in the feventh, his own example, and his bleffing the fabbath-day t.

Q. 63. 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 v.

Q.64. What is required in the fifth commandment?

A. The fifth commaudment requireth the preferving the honour, and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as fuperiors w, inferiors x,

long preaching, he funk down with fleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

Ezek. xxiii. 38. Moreover, this they have done unto me: they have defiled my fanctuary in the fame day, and have profaned my fabbaths.

Jer. xvii. 24. And it fhall come to pafs, if ye diligently hearkeu unto me, faith the Lord, to bring in no burden thro' the gates of this city on the fabbath-day, but hallow the fabbath-day, to do no work therein: v. 25. Then fhall there enter into the gates of this city, kings and princes, fitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots, and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerufalem; and this city fhall remain for ever. 2. 26. And they fhall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerufalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and

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from the mountains, and from the fouth, bringing burnt-offerings and facrifices, and meat-offerings, and incenfe, and bringing facrifices of praife unto the houfe of the Lord. Ifa. lviii. 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the fabbath, from doing thy pleafure on my holy day, and call the fabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and fhalt honour him, not doing thing own ways, nor finding thine own pleafure, nor fpeaking thine own words.

62./Exod. xx. 9. Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all thy work.

t Exod. xx. 11. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and rested the feventh day; wherefore the Lord bleffed the fabbath-day, and hallowed it.

63. v Exod. xx. 12.

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