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take due reft the night after, that we may the better remember what we have learnt on the day. Neither the night before, nor the night after, may reft be neglected on the Day of reft.

LII. Q. How bas God bleffed the Lord's day?
A. By making it a good
Exod. 23.12. Levit. day of reft, and holy feafting.

23. 2, 3. Acts 20.7.
Convenient reft to fit us for the Service of God and the duties
of our callings, and fober religious feafting to ftir up our rejoyce-
ing and thankfulness for God's mercies, (Deut. 12. 7. Luke
15. 32.) are certainly moral duties. And therefore God's com-
manding them in the Sabbath of the Jews, does oblige Christians
to obferve them in the Holy Day of the Gofpel. But the chief
feafting is the feafting of our Souls, in praifing and rejoycing in
God, (P. 95. 1, 2.) and praying to him, and learning his
Word. And they that are willing may provide fufficiently for
the feafting of the body, without hindring any one upon that
account from partaking of the Soul's Feaft in the Church.

LIII. Q. How has God hallowed the Lord's day? A. By commanding it to be Revel. 1. 10. The kept holy.

Lord's day fignifies a day hallowed to the honour and service of the Lord. And the practice of all Chriftians throughout the world does fhew, that the obfervation of this day was commanded by all the Apoftles. And they having their authority from Christ, and being alfo guided into all truth by the Holy Ghoft, (John 16. 13) their Command herein was the Command of God. 14. 37. Gal. 1. II, 12.

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As the keeping holy the Lord's day is neceffary at all times, that holy Duties, and convenient reft may not be neglected: so it is more especially neceffary in times of more and greater work; not only that we may remember to prefer the works of God's Service, and of the Salvation of our Souls, before any worldly works; but also for the preservation of our Health, and even of the lives of fome of us. Therefore Exod. 34. 21, God fays to Chriftians, as well as to the Jews. In earing time, and in barveft fpalt thou reft.

LIV. Q. What is the fifth Commandment?
A Honour thy Father and thy Mother; that

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thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

LV. Q What are you commanded in this Commandment?

a Matth. 10. 37 The words suppose that Father and Mother ought to be highly lov'd b Col, 3 20. c. Mark 7.9, to 14. Tim. 54

b.

8, 16. I muft honour them in their need

with the beft I have, and the beft place in my house. di Pet. 2. 13 to 18. e Eph.

5. 21,

22.

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1 Pet. 5. 5.
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A. I am commanded to love a, honour, obey b and fuccour my Father and Mothere; to honour and obey the King, and all that are put in authority under him d; to fubmit my felf to all my governors e, teachers f, fpiritual Paftors g, and Mafters b; to order my felf lowly and reverently to all my betters i; and to be thankful to those that do good to me k.

18 to 24. In all obedience to man, we must remember not to break any Commandment of God. Ats 5. 29. But we must alfo remember that Commandment which God has given by St. Peter, to fuffer patiently for well doing. i Levit. 19. 32. Rom. 12. 10. k Luke 6. 32, 33. The unthankful are

worfe than other finners.

LVI. Q. What is the fixth Commandment?
A. Thou fhalt do no murder.

LVII. Q. What are you commanded in this Commandment?

a Exod. 21. 12 to 16, 18, &c. Deut. 27. 24, 25. b Exod. 21. 16. ch. 22. 21 to

25. Deut. 27. 18. e Exod. 21. 17. P 31. 18. Pf. 52. I to

A. I am commanded to hurt a, or trouble b no body by word c, or deed, or by neglect d; to bear no malice nor hatred in my heart e; nor to be angry without a cause f.

f Matth. 5. 21, 22.

6. Eph. 4. 31. d Exod. 21. 29, &c. Deut. 22. 8. Prov. 24. e Levit. 19. 17, 18. F 2

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LIX. Q. Why may not you be angry for every

fault?

Jam.3.2. A. I have many faults my felf a: and as I deb. Eph. 4. fire God, and all others to bear with me; so I 1, 2, 32. must bear with all others b.

a Matth. 5.44. Luke

LX. Q. What else are you commanded in this Commandment?

a Habak. 2. 15,
16.
Matth. 18. 6, 7. Το
offend is to cause to
fin. Gal. 1. 8, 9. ch.
b Levit.
5. 10, 12.
Matth. 18.
19. 17..
10. Ezek. 3. 17. to

22.

Acts 20. 26, 27.

Thefe places of Ezek.
and the Acts belong
not only to Ministers,
but alfo to all Parents
and Mafters,&c. c Mat.
5. 43 to the end. ch.

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A. I am commanded to do no hurt to a, nor neglect the Soul of any body b. And I am commanded to love and forgive all, both friends and enemies c; and to do all I can for the life, and health, and comfort of my felf, and thofe that belong to me, and of all men, both in body and in Soul d.

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6. 12, 14, 15. Luke 23. 34. Alts 1 Pet. 3. 9. d The Lord's Prayer, by teaching us for both our felves and all men, teaches us to do all that is in cur power to obtain what we pray for. Matth. 22. 39. LXI. How must you forgive your enemies and thofe that do you wrong?

A. I must pray heartily that God will give them and forgive them a. And I must do Ads 7.60, all I can to bring them to repentance, by friendly

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Matth. 18.15, 16, 17. Luke 17. 3. Gal. 6.1, 2. Rom. 12.

20, 21. Prov. 25. 21, 22. To heap coals of fire upon thine enemies head, is to melt

him into love, altho' he

be hard hearted; as thofe metals that will

telling them of their faults b, and by doing good to them c; and when there is neceffity for it, by other lawful means d. And when they repent of their malice and wrong doing, I muft forget all, and be in perfect friendship with them e.

not be melted by fire under them, are melted by heaping coals of fire upon them. d Matth. 18. 17. e Luke 17. 3, 4. Heb. 8. 12. There is nothing in this Commandment against juft and neceffary war, or juft and neceffary punifhments of murderers and thieves, and other malefactors. But to enemies in war, and to malefactors we muft fhew all the mercy that can well be fhew'd. i Kings 2. 26, 27.2 Kings 6. 22, 23. LXII. Q. What are you commanded in this commandment, in respect of Beasts?

-Exod. 23. 12. Deut. 22. 6, 7. ch. 25. 4. Prov. 12. 10.

A. I am commanded to do no cruelty to any of God's

creatures.

TO LXIII. Q. What is the feventh Commandment? A. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

LXIV. Q. What are you commanded in this Commandment?

From all whoredom, unlawful mar

riage, (Levit: 18.) a
bufe of marriage, (Ex..
19. Ezek. 18. 1 Cor.
7) unnatural wicked-
nefs, (Levit. 20. 13, 15,
16. Rom. 1. 26, 27.)
and wickedness not
ham'd in the Scripture.

A. I am commanded to keep my body in chastity a, and to keep from all filthy thoughts, words and actions b; and as the means of chastity, to keep nefs and in modest habit c, my body in temperance, foberand appareld.

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Eph. 5. 12. b Eph. 5..3 to 8. c Deut. 21. 20, 21. Prev. 23. 20, 21, 31, 32. 33. Luke 21. 34. d1 Cor. 11. 4 to 8, 10, 13 to 17. Fashions fo earnestly forbidden, and declared to be not tolerated in any of the Apoftolical Churches, how dare Chriftians

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Chriftians now use them? One of thefe fashions is no more juftified by 2 Samuel 14. 26, than worse things of divorces and many wives are juftified by their being permitted to the Jews. e Deut. 22. 5. All diftinction of Sexes, whether appointed by nature or by laudable custom, ought to be obferv'd. 1 Tim. 2. 9, 10. How can that fashion be innocent, which gives great occafion to the damnable Sin Matth. 5. 28, 29?

LXV. Q. What is the eighth Commandment?
A. Thou shalt not steal.

LXVI. Q. What are you commanded in this Com mandment?

a Exod. 21. 33, to the end. ch. 22. 5, 6. 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9, 10. b Levit. 19. 35, 36. Rom. 13. 7, 8. Tit. 1 Tim. 5 d Levit. Ezek. 33. Matth.

2. 10. 4, 8, 16. 6.1 to 6, 14, 15.

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25. 34 to the end. fExod. 23. 4, 5. Deut. 22. 1 to 5. To lend to poor men without ufury, (Exod. 22.

25. Levit. 25. 35,

A. I am commanded to keep my hands from picking and ftealing, and to do no wrong to my neighbour in his goods a, to be true and juft in all my dealing b, to provide for thofe that belong to me c, to restore loft or ill gotten goods d, to relieve the poor e, and to fuccour when there is need, the goods or eftate of any man ƒ

36, 37) to take no pledge which cannot be fpar'd, (Exod. 22. 26, 27. Deut. 24. 6. 10 to 14) and to have patience with, and forgive thofe that are not able to pay their debts. Matth. 18. 23 to the end.

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LXVII. Q. What is the ninth Commandment? A. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

LXVIII. Q. What are you commanded in this Commandment ?

A. I am commanded to keep my tongue from evil fpeaking, lying and flan

a Prov. 19, 5, 9. dering against my neighbour a, Tit. 3. 2. b Prov. and from uncharitable truth b

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