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A brief exposition of the church-catechism, with proofs from Scripture; Book of common prayer. Catechism.
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Church of England.; Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
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unto it for I am the Lord your God. Q. Is a Representation of the true God hereby forbidden as well as that of a false God A. Yes for the true God is incomprehensible and cannot be described Isa 40.17 18 c. All nations before him are as nothing c. To whom then will ye liken God c. 2. It was condemned when it was used as in the Golden Calf which was made for a Representation of Jehovah the Lord. Exod. 32.5 Aaron built an altar before it and made proclamation and said To morrow is a feast to the Lord or Jehovah Q. What are the Reasons annexed to this Commandment A. They are three 1. The Lord is a Jealous God. 1. Lest by this means men come to have gross Conceptions of him as if he was like to an Image a 2. Lest they are thereby estranged from him and think that to be God which is not God b a Acts 17.29 We ought not to think that the Godbead is like unto Gold or Silver or Stone graven by art and mens device Deut. 4.12 15. Ye heard the Voice of the Lord but saw no Similitude b Ezek. 14.5 The house of Israel are estranged from me through their Idols 2. The Persons guilty of this Sin are esteemed Haters of God and which he will punish to the third and fourth Generation 3. That on the contrary he will shew Mercy abundantly unto them that keep this Commandment Shewing Mercy unto thousands Q. How can the Church of Rome vindicate it self for their making an Image of God and giving Adoration to an Image A. They usually leave out this Commandment Q. Why so A. Because they say it 's the same with the first and so make the third Commandment to be the Second and divide the Tenth into two Q. But besides that the Scripture makes the first and second Commandment to be two Exod. 20.3 4. Deut. 5.7 8. Is there not a manifest difference between them A. Yes for the first Commandment forbids the having and owning that for God which is not God as did the Worshippers of Baal and Moloch a c. But the second Commandment forbids the worshipping of the true God by an Image as did the Israelites in the Wilderness and Jeroboam when they worshipped the Golden Calves b a 1 Kings 16.31 Amos 5.26 b Exod. 32.1 4. 1 Kings 12.28 Q. What is the Duty required in the second Commandment A. To give that Worship to God which is suitable to his Nature Joh. 4.24 God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth Rom. 12.1 Q. Command 3. What is the third Commandment A. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltiess that taketh his Name in vain Q. How is the Name of God taken in vain A. 1. By perjury or false swearing Levit. 19.12 Ye shall not swear by my Name falsly neither shall thou profane the name of thy God. 2. By rash and common swearing Mat. 5.34 35 36. 37. I say unto you Swear not at all but let your communication be yea yea nay nay 3. By blasphemy or speaking reproachfully of God and Religion 1 Tim. 6.1 That the name of God and his Doctrine be not blasphemed Levit. 24.16 4. By the irreverent use of the name of God a or of things belonging to him b and his service c a Levit. 21.6 They shall be holy unto their God and not profane the name of their God. b 1 Thes 4.8 He therefore that despiseth despiseth not man but God. c Levit. 22.2 That they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me Q. What is the reason annexed to this Commandment A. The Lord will not hold him guiltless but will most certainly punish him Zech. 5.3 4. The curse shall enter into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my name c. and shall consume it Levit. 24.15 16. Q. What is the Duty required in this Commandment A. To honour God's holy Name a and Word b so as to use it with reverence in Oaths c Vows d Promises Discourse e and Worship f and to use reverently whatever has a more immediate relation to him and his service a Psal 99.3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name for it is holy b Isa 66.2 To this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word c Jer. 4.2 Thou shalt swear As the Lord liveth in truth in judgement and righteousness d Eccl. 5.4 When thou vowest a vow unto God defer not to pay it Deut. 23.23 e Col. 4.6 Let your speech be alway with grace seasoned with salt Mat. 5.37 f Levit. 10.3 I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me Isa 29.23 Q. What is the Fourth Commandment A. Command 4. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou nor thy Son nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy cattel nor the stranger that is within thy gates For in six days 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. What doth the word Sabbath signifie A. It signifies Rest Q. Why was the seventh day so called A. 1. Because God rested that day from the work of Creation which he finished in six days Gen. 2.2 3. On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it c. Q. What 's meant by God's Hallowing the soventh day A. It 's His setting it apart for sacred uses Jer. 17.24 Hallow the Sabbath day to do no work therein Q. What were the Sacred Uses it was set apart for A. 1. For the Publick Worship of God a which consisteth in Preaching Expounding and Reading b the Word of God and in Prayer c a Acts 13.42 The Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath Mark 6.2 b Acts 15.21 Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath day Acts 13.27 c Acts 16.13 On the Sabbath day we went out of the city by a River-side where Prayer was wont to be made or where there was an Oratory 2. For private Worship and Meditation upon the Word and Works of God. Psal 92. A Psalm for the Sabbath day Q. What was further required in this Commandment A. To rest from all servile and ordinary employments In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou nor thy servant c. Isa 58.13 Nehem. 13.15 Q. Why do Christians observe the First day of the Week as a Sabbath and not the
Seventh A. It 's in remembrance of Christ's Resurrection from the dead on that day which was the great confirmation that all was sinished a which he undertook Joh. 19.30 He said it is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the Ghost Acts 17.3 Christ must needs have risen John 2.22 Q. How is this day to be employed A. In works of Piety a and Charity b in serving God and doing good to others a Acts 20.7 Vpon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread b 1 Cor. 16.2 Vpon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him the week before Q. What doth the second Table concern A. My duty towards my Neighbour Q. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour A. My duty towards my neighbour is to love him as my self and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me To love honour and succour my father and mother To honour and obey the King and all that are put in authority under him To submit my self to all my Governors Teachers spiritual Pastors and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters To hurt no body by word or deed To be true and just in all my dealing To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart To keep my hands from picking and stealing and my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity Not to covet nor desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me Matt. 22.39 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Gal. 5.14 Matt. 7.12 All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do ye even so to them Q. What are the Commandments which contain thy duty towards thy Neighbour A. The last six Q. What is the Fifth Commandment A. Command 5. Honour thy Father and Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Q. What is here to be understood by the Terms Father and Mother A. More especially I thereby understand 1. My natural Parents whom I am to love honour a and succour b a Mal. 1.6 A son honoureth his father Ephes 6.1 Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right b 1 Tim. 5.4 Let children learn to shew piety or Charity at home and to requite their parents care by succouring them in their necessity Mark 7.11 12 2. The King and all that are put in authority under him a whom I am to honour and obey b in all lawful and honest things a Isa 49. 23. Kings are call'd Nursing-fathers b 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as supreme vers 14. or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him c. 3. Teachers and Spiritual Pastors a to whom and whose spiritual and pious instructions I am to submit b a Judg. 17.10 Thou shalt be unto me a Father and a Priest 1 Cor. 4.15 b Heb. 13.17 Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls c. 1 Tim. 5.17 4. Masters of Families call'd Fathers as 2 Kings 5.13 and to whom if a Servant I am to submit in all reasonable things belonging to that condition Ephes 6.5 6. Servants be obedient to them that are your Masters c. not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart Tit. 2.9 10. 5. All my Betters a to whom I am to order my self lowly and reverently b a Acts 7.2 St. Stephen said Men Brethren and Fathers b 1 Pet. 5.5 Ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility Levit. 19.32 Q. What encouragement is there for obedience to this Command A. There is annexed to it the Promise of a long and prosperous Life which ordinarily attends it That thy days may be long in the land c. Ephes 6.1 2. Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise Q. Which is the Sixth Commandment A. Thou shalt do no Murer Command 6. Q. What is the sin forbidden in this Commandment A. Murder or the wilful killing of a man's Neighbour Q. What are the kinds of that which you call wilful killing of another A. There are two sorts 1. A less which is the killing of another in heat of Blood usually called Man-slaughter but what the Scripture calls Murder Numb 35.16 17 18. If he smite him with an instrument of iron c. he is a murderer 2. A greater which is a contrived and deliberate killing of another a usually call'd wilful-murder a Exod. 21.14 If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile Numb 35.20 21. Q. What was the punishmenr for this sin A. Death Gen. 9.5 6. He that sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Numb 35.16 17 21. Q. What is further forbidden in this Commandment A. That I hurt no body by word or deed and bear no malice nor hatred in my heart And so this Commandment forbids all degrees incentives and provocations to this sin such as causeless rash and immoderate anger a hatred b malice spight and revenge bitterness and reviling c a Matt. 5.21 22. Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time thou shalt not kill and whoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment But I say unto you That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause c. Eph. 4.26 b 1 Joh. 3.15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer c Eph. 4.31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Q. What is required in this Commandment A. 1. Peaceableness not to provoke others Rom. 12.18 If it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men 2. Meekness not to be provoked to do evil to others Rom. 12.17 Recompence to no man evil for evil 3. Charity or readiness to forgive and to do good when provoked Rom. 12.20 21. If thine enemy hunger feed him c. 4. Succouring another in danger and distress as the good Samaritan Luke 10.33 Q. What is the Seventh Commandment A. Command 7. Thou shalt not commit Adultery Q. What is Adultery A. It 's a violation of that Covenant a made at Marriage b between one Man and one Woman c which makes the Man to be the Husband of the Woman and the Woman to be the Wife of the Man. a Malac. 2.14 She is the wife of thy covenant b Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all c Mal. 2.15 Did not he make one Matt. 19.4 5. Q. When is that Covenant