are ordered by the greatest Wisdom and shall work together for the good of those that love Thee We doubt not of thy Fatherly Affection to those that study in all sincerity to approve themselves unto Thee and therefore still resolve to leave our selves entirely to thy wise Counsels that thou mayst dispose us into such a condition as thou seest best in this World Oh remember us but of our Duty quicken and excite us to it strengthen us in the doing of it support us under all discouragements advise us in all difficult cases and comfort us with a stedfast Belief of thy holy Word and we shall ever be giving thanks and praise unto Thee who dealest so bountifully with us Moreover with our selves we desire O Lord the good of all Mankind especially that thou wouldest be mercifull to thy whole Church and particularly that thou wouldest bless that part of it which is planted in these Nations wherein we live inclining the hearts of all Ranks and Degrees of Men amongst us to follow after things which make for Peace Unity and Godliness But O gracious God as we are in duty bound in a more peculiar manner we do most earnestly beseech Thee on the behalf of this place of our Abode that our Minister being directed and assisted by Thee may be made a Blessing and a Comfort unto us and that we likewise having our Conversation as becomes the Gospel of Christ may be a Blessing and an Encouragement unto him Give we pray Thee repentance unto Sinners and increase of Grace and Strength to all thy faithfull Servants Reduce those among us that wander out of the way raise up those that are fallen confirm and settle those that stand and grant them a stedfast Resolution to persevere in Faith Love and Obedience Relieve and comfort all those that are in any Distress make the Earth to bring forth her increase in due season and let all honest and industrious People be succeeded and blessed in their Labours Remember all those who are nearly related to us or to whom we are indebted for our Birth Education Instruction or Promotion Thou who art rich in Mercy reward and recompence their care and love Grant Forgiveness and Charity to all our Enemies Continue good will among all our kind Neighbours Assist those that are Dying and leaving this World and fit their Souls for a better Place and let us also with them after our own last sickness in due time through Christ obtain a glorious Resurrection and Eternal Life And here O Lord we do from our very Souls render unto Thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy Blessings and Benefits bestowed upon us concerning this Life and that which is to come but more especially we praise Thee for the mercies of this day for any measure of success thou hast given us in our lawfull Endeavours that thou hast defended us from such dangers as might have fallen upon us We beseech Thee likewise of thine infinite Goodness and Mercy to defend and protect us and all that belong unto us this Night and let us be refreshed with moderate rest and sleep and so raised the next Day more able and willing to set forth thy Glory in the conscionable Duties of our Places and Callings These and all other needfull Mercies we ask of Thee for the alone merits of Jesus Christ in whose Name we continue to pray unto Thee as he himself hath taught us saying Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven give us this day our daily Bread and forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us and lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Thy Grace O Lord Jesus Christ thy love O Heavenly Father thy comfort and consolation O holy and blessed Spirit be with us and remain with us this night and for evermore Amen Another Family-Prayer for the Evening on the Week-Days Saturday especially O Most blessed and eternall God thou alone art the fountain of our Happiness and the rest and satisfaction of our Souls Thou art infinitely more great and glorious in thy Wisdom Power and Goodness then either our words can declare or our hearts can conceive We therefore thine unworthy Servants do here most humbly adore and worship thine incomprehensible Majesty acknowledging that we were not only born in sin but in the course of our Lives have violated thy Sacred Laws and many ways transgressed our Duty as to Thee our Neighbours and our Selves so that if Thou shouldest deal with us according to the strictness of thy Justice and our own deservings we could expect nothing but shame and misery both in this life and that which is to come But O God we beseech Thee do thou help us penitently and believingly to cast our selves upon thy Mercy and the Merits of Jesus Christ and for his sake graciously forgive unto us the sinfulness of all our thoughts words and ways and let thy Spirit witness with ours the comfortable assurance of that Forgiveness And for the future let us not be tempted by the allurements or discouragements of the World wilfully to allow our selves in the omission of any the least known Duty or in the Commission of any the least known Sin And because this is thy Will even our sanctification we beseech Thee O Lord that thou wouldest sanctifie our Understandings that being renewed in the Spirit of our Minds we may have a Spiritual Discerning of the things of Thee our God that we may know what it is that Thou requirest of us in those several Places Conditions and Relations Thou art pleased to set us in That Thou wouldest likewise enable us to submit our wills to thy Blessed Will in all things and to make it our daily care and exercise to keep our Consciences clear and unreproveable in thy sight That Thou wouldest help us to set our Affections upon things above that we may love thee the Lord our God with all our Heart and with all our Soul and with all our Strength and that Christ may be the Chiefest of ten thousands unto us Him whom our Soul loves That we may present our Bodies a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto Thee which is but our reasonable Service That so being sanctified throughout we may be whatsoever Thou wouldest have us to be that we may leave whatsoever thou wouldest have us to forsake that we may patiently suffer whatsoever Thou layest upon us to endure that we may freely cheerfully and readily do whatsoever thy Command obligeth us to do And because Thou requirest that we should grow in Grace by all those means of Grace and Salvation which Thou art pleased so plentifully to vouchsafe unto us Oh that Thou wouldest help us to walk yet more holily in respect of Thee our God then ever that we may be more fearfull
not bear false witness against thy Neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy neighbours Wife nor his Servant nor his Maid nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his Quest What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments Ans I learn two things my duty towards God and my duty towards my Neighbour Quest What is thy duty towards God Ans My duty towards God is to believe in him to fear him and love him with all my Heart with all my Mind with all my Soul and with all my strength to worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him to honour his holy Name and his Word and to serve him truly all the days of my life Quest What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour Ans My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as my self and to do to all Men as I would they should do to 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 Governours Teachers Spiritual Pastours 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 Dealings 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 Cat. My good Child know this that thou art not able to do these things of thy self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special Grace which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent Prayer Let me hear therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer Ans Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen Quest What desirest thou of God in this Prayer Ans I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who is the giver of all goodness to send his Grace unto me and to all People that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to do And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needfull both for our Souls and Bodies and that he will be mercifull unto us and forgive us our sins and that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ And therefore I say Amen So be it Quest How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church Ans Two only as generally necessary to Salvation that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Quest What meanest thou by this word Sacrament Ans I mean an outward visible Sign of an inward and spiritual Grace given unto us ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive the same and a pledge to assure us thereof Quest How many parts are there in a Sacrament Ans Two the outward visible Sign and the inward spiritual Grace Quest What is the outward visible sign or form in Baptism Ans Water wherein the person is baptized In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Quest What is the inward and spiritual Grace Ans A death unto sin and a new birth unto Righteousness for being by nature born in sin and the children of wrath we are hereby made the children of Grace Quest What is required of persons to be baptized Ans Repentance whereby they forsake sin and Faith whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Quest Why then are Infants baptized when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them Ans Because they promise them both by their sureties which promise when they come to age themselves are bound to perform Quest Why was the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper ordained Ans For the continual remembrance of the sacrifice of the death of Christ and of the benefits which we receive thereby Quest What is the outward part or sign of the Lords-Supper Ans Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received Quest What is the inward part or thing signified Ans The Body and Blood of Christ which are indeed taken and received by the faithfull in the Lords Supper Quest What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby Ans The strengthning and refreshing of our Souls by the Body and Blood of Christ as our bodies are by the Bread and Wine Quest What is required of them who come to the Lords Supper Ans To examine themselves whether they repent them truly of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankfull remembrance of his death and be in charity with all men When the Sacrament comes every fourth moneth to be administred for any of the Divisions above mentioned the respective Church and Chappel-Wardens thereof are desired to give timely notice unto a fitting number of Servants and Children within the same to be catechised on the Sacrament Day for the said Division or on some other day of that Moneth Thus the care of this needfull exercise will be more equally shared among them and the duty it self more constantly performed And the better to observe an Order in thus calling the Youth to Catechizing in the said Divisions it may be convenient to begin in the Higher End of each of them and so to go by House-rows as much as may be through the whole taking a convenient number of Families at a time Concerning Personal Instruction THe like course so far as it shall be found convenient may be used concerning Personal Instruction whereby as the younger sort in several Families come to the Church to be catechized so the elder People in the same or the like number of Families may come to the Ministers house or he go to theirs to discourse with him in a plain familiar way of the most necessary Gospel Truths and Christian duties which most nearly concern Gods honour and worship and our eternal Salvation To this purpose we may improve the Church Catechism or the following Profession of Faith and Catechism consisting but of 12 Questions and Answers endeavouring fully to understand and to practice the things therein
Secret and Family PRAYERS With brief Helps for the more Devout RECEIVING OF THE Lords-Supper And better Observation of the LORDS-DAY as also to further the needfull Duties of Catechizing Visiting the Sick and Personal Instruction Fitted for the Use and Benefit of the Inhabitants of Cartmel in Lancashire If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them S. John 13. 17. CAMBRIDGE Printed by J. Hayes for the Author 1677. June 15. 1677. Imprimatur Tho. Page Procan Ri. Minshull Theoph. Dillingham Rad. Cudworth THE PREFACE AND EPISTLE To my loving Neighbours and Pastoral Charge HAving now for a long time observed not only your frugal charitable and industrious way of Living as to the World but moreover in reference to many of you your more pious Care for the good Education of your Children and your own Spiritual Welfare as also your maintaining Order and Unity above many others in the Worship of God this hath been unto me and I hope shall continue to be the cause of no little joy and contentment of heart Yet having withall seen some among us hitherto not so diligent as they ought to be either in keeping holy the Lords Day or in receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper or in sending for the Minister to visit them when sick or in improving when in health the duty of Catechising and Personal Instruction that both themselves and those who live with or under them might be better informed in the Ways of God I have in the ensuing Book as to each of these respects hinted those things which if duely considered may prove a sutable and seasonable Remedy And particularly because as to the promoting of Religion in each Houshold there is a more general want of Family-Prayers too easie to be taken notice of I have herein especially endeavoured to make provision for the performance of that part of your Duty There are I hope but few so negligent of their own Welfare as not to consider how natural and necessary it is for all reasonable creatures by Prayer and Thanksgiving to acknowledge God in alâ— their ways and to give him the Glory duâ— unto his Name for all the benefits they receive from him and to seek his Blessing upon what ever they undertake and daily to recommend themselves and all their concerns to his continued Grace and good Providence There may be more who having helps put into their hands for this purpose will not so much as find leasure to make use of them as if this would not indeed rather further then hinder their lawfull Affairs or as if they could have any greater and weightier business then thus to seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near Or as if when the most in a Family will both find time and get together twice a day for set meals for their Bodies they should not much rather strive to do so once at the least for set and solemn Prayer in order to their Souls eternal Happiness If your estate be more plentifull you may spare the more time if your condition be meaner on Earth you have more need to seek by Christ a Treasure in Heaven Say not therefore you are to provide for Wife and Family and so have no time to regard your Soul by a solemn and serious performance of Duties but remember that the same God who commands you to follow your particular Callings as Men injoins you likewise to follow your general Callings as Christians and that in the first place Seek first the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness ousness thereof and all other things shall be added unto you And also with the greatest labour S. John 6. 27. Labour not i. e. not only for the food that perisheth but chiefly for the food that endureth to Everlasting Life Should we pray to God every day in the week not once or twice but many times for eternall Blessedness and continue to do so with greatest earnestness while our life and breath is continued if but once this Petition at last be granted us will it not be richly worth our pains and fully requite all that we have done Or having every Work-day in the week 23 hours and an half to eat and drink and work and sleep in is it any great matter to redeem half an hour or a quarter of an hours time wherein to work out our Salvation to prepare our Souls for Death Judgement and Eternity to read some portion of Gods Word and to praise him for the Mercies we have received and to Pray unto him for such as we have need of If a mans house were in a flame he would not let it burn and say I have no time to quench it If a Neighbour call us to sit at our doors to talk or dine with them we can find leasure for it When therefore the Blessed God calls upon us to be diligent this way among others to make our Calling and Election sure should we foolishly say that we have no time for this though indeed one of the main Works which we were sent into the World about Oh let not such vain excuses keep us from our Duty lest the Righteous God for our pretending now want of time to serve him in be provoked at last to give us an Eternity to suffer in Others I fear will be ready to make light of these Helps because of their groundless prejudices against all Book-Prayers not rightly understanding either their benefit or lawfulness but I beseech you let it be well considered how many Christian Duties and Vertues we may be daily put in mind of by these Prayers which if we strive to follow with answerable Practices as we ought to do and as we hereby beg of God to enable us to do surely this course must in all reason be allowed to have a very considerable influence into our more Holy and Circumspect Walking Besides you know how natural it is to all Mankind when they have any petitions or thanks to prefer but to an earthly King to take good advice beforehand that they may be delivered in as decent and grave form of words and as reverent a manner as may be certainly then Christians in this respect should be much more carefull if possible how they present the desires of their Hearts to the most High God the Eternal Majesty of Heaven and Earth But alas with many such have been the licentious Rambles of their fancy in suddain Prayer so bold and rude have their descriptions been of Almighty God so rash their Sayings concerning him or concerning themselves and so many untrue or doubtfull things have they uttered that they have not only shamed that way of address to God but dishonoured and hindered true Christian Devotion which hath suffered extremely in the thoughts of many by such extravagance And some as experience hath shewn finding that they could not pray in their Families ex tempore or on the sudden as they have been urged
Morning on the Week-Days you may pray by your self thus O Most gracious God and mercifull Father I thine unworthy servant do here acknowledge that as I was born in sin so I have lived in iniquity and broken thy Righteous Laws in thought word and deed following too much the desires of my own Will and not caring as I ought to be governed by thy holy Word and Spirit and am therefore liable to all shame and misery both in this Life and that which is to come But O Heavenly Father I beseech Thee for the Merits of thy dear Son to forgive me all my sins and not to inflict that punishment which is due unto me for them And send thy Holy Spirit into my heart which may assure me that thou art my reconciled Father and that thou lovest me with an unchangeable Love And let the same thy good Spirit lead me in the ways of Truth and Righteousness and crucifie in me more and more all worldly and carnall lusts And here O Lord from the bottom of my heart I thank Thee for all thy Blessings bestowed upon my Soul or Body Particularly for any measure of Refreshment given unto me the Night past and that thou hast brought me safe to the light of another Day O Lord I pray Thee continue to be gracious unto me let thy Fear be always before my eyes and thy Grace so rule in my heart that whatever I shall think speak or do may tend to thy Glory the Good of others and the peace of my own Conscience I now recommend my self and all my concerns together with all near Relations and those that belong unto me to thy mercifull Direction and Protection intreating Thee to keep us from all evil and to give a Blessing to all our honest and lawfull Endeavours and to make all thy Providences towards us to work together for our good Bless O Lord the Kings Majesty and all the Royal Family with all inferiour Magistrates under Him Bless the Bishops and Pastors of the Church Comfort all that are sick and comfortless And O Lord keep me in a continual readiness by Faith and Repentance for my last end that whether I live or die I may be thine accepted of Thee through Christ Jesus my only Saviour in whose prevailing Name I sue for these and all other needfull Graces and Mercies continue to pray unto Thee as he himself hath taught me saying Our Father c. Praying alone unless removed out of the hearing of others speak with a whispering rather then a loud Voice as Hannah did 1 Sam. 1. 13. She spake in her heart onely her lips moved but her voice was not heard Thus not being heard of others they cannot suspect you to affect any vain glory in what you do Yet you will find this way usefull both to stir up your Affections and to help your Attention of Mind by keeping you from many wandring and distracting thoughts which you would otherwise be liable unto Note further that when alone in Secret you may sometimes makeless use of a set Form of Prayer and take more freedom in opening your Heart and particular Condition unto God as he shall enable you He knows and will graciously answer your humble and sincere desires Greater heed is to be taken for Method and Expression when we pray with others that they may joyn with us to their Edification At Evening on the Week-Days when the Family is come together at the fittest time before they go to their Rest let the Governours themselves or some Child or Servant whom they shall appoint reading first some portion of Scripture if they have time distinctly and leasurely read one of the two following Prayers A Family-Prayer for the Evening on the Week-Days O Lord the Creator of the World and the Redeemer of Mankind who knowest all things and canst do what thou pleasest and hast done us very much Good already and promised to do more for us if we be obedient then we can ask or think we here fall down before Thee in the lowest manner to express our fear and reverence to thy Almighty Power our admiration of and submission to thy unsearchable Wisdom our hearty love and thankfull acknowledgment of thy wondrous Goodness our trust and confidence in thy Faithfull Promises with our ready and sincere purposes to perform all Obedience to thy holy Commands There is nothing O Lord so afflictive to us as the remembrance that we have at any time offended thy Sovereign Authority We are heartily sorry for the breaking any of thy Righteous and Good Laws and therefore beseech Thee for the sake of Christ to pardon the same unto us and that we may abhor the thoughts of doing so again ever resolving by thy Assistance to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live Righteously Soberly and Godly in this present World and to strive to be like our Saviour Christ in meekness and lowliness of Spirit in Purity and Zeal for thy Worship and Glory and in being ready as we have opportunity to take the more pains that we may do the more good in the World Oh do thou we pray thee strengthen in us these resolutions which thou hast inspired us withall and ever further them by thy continued Grace that no sudden desires ineffectual purposes or partial performances may deceive or lead us into a false Opinion of our selves but that we may bring forth actually and with a constant Spirit all the fruits of Righteousness which are by Christ Jesus to the Praise and Glory of thee our God O let us be so sensible of thy great kindness to us of our many engagements unto Thee that we may love thee our God and Saviour with all our heart soul and strength that we may strive to credit our Religion and glorifie thy Name all the ways we are able with all that we are have or can do that not only by the special Duties of thy Worship but also by the right management of our outward Affairs and our moderate use of the good things of this Life we may serve Thee and be brought nearer unto Thee Thus we pray Thee let Religion be the very business of our lives and let our greatest pleasure be to please Thee in every thing and our highest design to attain that Blessed Immortality which Christ Jesus hath promised Lift up our affections we intreat Thee more and more to those things above where He is that Heaven may have our hearts while this World hath our bodies and we may have perfect Contentment of mind in Well-doing and patient suffering and the good hope we have of being eternally beloved of Thee the Lord of Heaven and Earth may make us rejoyce evermore Free us O Lord from all inordinate cares for the things of this Life from all distrust of thy good Providence from all repining at any thing that befalls us and enable us in every thing to give Thanks believing that all things
and Godliness and be preserved in Body and Soul to everlasting Life through Jesus Christ in whose name and words I further continue to pray unto thee Our Father c. An Expedient to further Peoples often and orderly receiving the Holy Communion in the Parish of Cartmel IN the Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion we have among others this Rule both pious and reasonable viz. That every Parishioner that is all above sixteen years old shall communicate or receive the Sacrament at least three times in the Year of which Easter is to be one for the better observation whereof let it be remembred 1. That by Gods assistance if no great inconvenience hinder it there will be a Sacrament at the Church upon the first Lords Days of December April August especially for the Inhabitants of Stavely Division or the West of Broughton and part of Allithwait that is the Inhabitants of Stavely Farigge Hasslerigge Field-End Over-Carke Wood-Broughton Ainsome and part of the Church-Town to Headless-Cross or of any other place in that part of the Parish And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament-Days there will be a Sermon at Stavely Chappel in the After noon 2. That there will likewise be a Sacrament upon the first Lords Days of January May September especially for the Inhabitants of Cartmelfell or the East of Broughton Division that is to say the Inhabitants of Cartmel-fell Ayside the Greaves Barbar-Green Field-Broughton Hampsfield and the Grange or of any other place in that part of the Parish And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament Days there will be a Sermon at Cartmelfell-Chappel in the After noon 3. That there will be a Sacrament on the three first Lords-Days of February June October especially for the Inhabitants of Allithwait Division that is to say the Inhabitants of Birkby Allithwait Templand Kentsbank Kirket End Lindal and both the Newtons or of any other place in that part of the Parish And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament Days there will be a Sermon at Lindal-Chappel in the After-noon 4. That there will be a Sacrament on the first Lords Days of November March July especially for the Inhabitants of Holker or Walton Division that is to say the Inhabitants of Browedge Backbarrow Speel-bank Origge Beckside Burnses Walton Part of the Church-Town Holker Carke Flookborough or any other place in that Division And that the Sunday before each of these three Sacrament Days there will be a Sermon at Flookborough-Chappel in the After-noon Concerning Catechising That we may believe and live as we ought to do and that the Lords Table may be furnished with more knowing and worthy Communicants Parents Family-governours and Teachers of publick or private Schools are intreated as the Laws of God and the Constitutions of the Church require to be carefull to instruct those under their Tuition and Charge and particularly in the Church Catechism that they may be able to give an account of the same when thereunto called The Church Catechism Question WHat is your Name Answer N. or M. Quest Who gave you this Name Ans My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a Member of Christ the Child of God and an Inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven Quest What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you Ans They did promise and vow three things in my name First that I should renounce the devil and all his works the pomps and vanity of this wicked World and all the sinfull lusts of the Flesh Secondly that I should believe all the articles of the Christian Faith And thirdly that I should keep Gods holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my life Quest Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thee Ans Yes verily and by Gods help so I will And I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this State of Salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour And I pray unto God to give me his Grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Cat. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief Ans I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his onely 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 at 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 Quest What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief Ans First I learn to believe in God the Father who hath made me and all the world Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed me and all Mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the elect People of God Quest You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you that you should keep Gods Commandments Tell me now how many there be Ans Ten. Quest Which be they Ans The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage I. Thou shalt have none other gods but Me. II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the Water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my Commandments III. 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 IV. 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 and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy maid-servant thy cattel and 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 seventh day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy Days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt do no murder VII Thou shalt not commit adultery VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt