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Q38. What benefits do believers receive from Chrift at the refurrection?

A. At the refurrection, believers, being raised up in glo. ryw, fhall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly bleffed in full enjoying of God y to all eternity z.

Q. 39. What is the duty which God requireth of man? Q:39.

A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will a..

Q. 40. What did God at firft reveal to man for the rule Q.40. of his obedience?.

A. The rule which God at firft revealed to man, for his obedience, was the moral law b.

yet in my flefh fhall I fee God: v. 27. Whom I fhall fee for myfelf, and mine eyes thall behold, and not another; though my reins be confumed within me.

38. w I Cor. xv. 43. It is fown in difhonour, it is railed in glory; it is fown in weakness, it is raifed in power.

* Mat. xxv. 23. His lord faid unto him, Well done, good and faithful fervant; thou haft been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Mat. x. 32. Whofoever therefore fhall confefs me before men, him will I confefs alfo before my Father which is in heaven.

1 John iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the fons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, that when he thall appear, we shall be like him: for we fhall fee him as he is. I Cor. xiii. 12. For now we fee through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then fhall I know even

as alfo I am known.

Q.41.

1 Theff. ir. 17. Then we who are alive and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and fo fhall we ever be with the Lord. v. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

39. a Micah vi. 8. He hath fhew. ed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? 1 Sam. xv. 22. And Samuel faid, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and facrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than facrifice; and to hearken, than the fat of rams.

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40. Rom. ii. 14. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, thefe having not the law, are a law unto themselves: v. 15. Which thew the work of the law written in their hearts, their confcience also bearing witnefs, and their thoughts the mean while ac cufing, or elfe excufing one another. For Mofes defcribeth the righte

Rom.x. 5.

Q.41. Wherein is the moral law fummarily comprehended? A. The moral law is fummarily comprehended in the ten commandments c.

Q. 42. What is the fum of the ten commandments?

A. The fum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our foul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbour as ourselves d.

Q.43. What is the preface to the ten commandments?

A. The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage e.

Q. 44. What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?

A. The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, That because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer; therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments. Q.45. Which is the first commandment?

righteousnefs which is of the law, that the man which doth thofe things, fhall live by them.

41. Deut. x. 4. And he wrote on the tables, according to the firft writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the affembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

42. Mat. xxii. 37. Jefus faid unto him, Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind. v. 38. This is the firft and great commandment. v. 39. And the fecond is like unto it, Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyself. v. 40. Onthefe two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

43. Exod. xx. 2.

A. The

grant unto us, that we being deli-
vered out of the hands of our ene-
mies, might ferve him without fear,
v. 75. in holinefs and righteoufnefs
before him, all the days of our life.
1 Pet. i. 15. But as he which hath
called you is holy, fo be ye holy in
all manner of converfation; v. 16.
Becaufe it is written, Be ye holy, for
I am holy. v. 17. And if ye call on
the Father, who without refpect of
períons judgeth according to every
mans work, pafs the time of your
fojourning here in fear: v. 18. For-
asmuch as ye know that ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things,
as filver and gold, from your vain
converfation, received by tradition
from your fathers; v. 19. but with.
the precious blood of Chrift, as of a
lamb without blemish and without

44-f Luke i. 74. That he would spot.

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A. The first commandment is, Thou fhalt have no other

gods before Meg.

Q.46. What is required in the first commandment?

A. The first commandment requireth us to know, and ac knowledge God to be the only true God, and our Godh; and to worship and glorify him accordingly i.

Q47. What is forbidden in the first commandment?

A. The first commandment forbiddeth the denyingk, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God /, and our God m; and the giving that worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone n.

Q. 48. What are we fpecially taught by these words (Be fore Me) in the first commandment?

A. These words (Before Me) in the first commandment, teach us, That God, who feeth all things, taketh notice of,

45.8 Exod. xx. 3.

46.b 1 Chron, xxviii, 9. And thou, Solomon my fon, know thou the God of thy father, and ferve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind: for the Lord fearcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the i-. maginations of the thoughts: if thou feek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou for fake him, he will caft thee off for ever. Deut. xxvi. 17. Thou haft avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in ways, and to keep his ftatutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice.

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Rom. i. 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worthipped and ferved the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever, Amen. v. 26. For this caus God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural ufe into that which is against nature.

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and is much difpleased with, the fin of having any other god o.. Q.49. Which is the fecond commandment?

A. The fecond 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 thyself to them, nor ferve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vifiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: and fhewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments p.

Q. 50. What is required in the fecond commandment?

A. The second commandment requireth the receiving, obferving and keeping pure and entire, all fuch religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his word q.

Q.51. What is forbidden in the fecond commandment? A. The fecond commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images r, or any other way not appointed in his word.

48. Ezek. viii. 5. Then faid he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way towards the north: fo I lift up mine eyes the way to ward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar, this idol of jealousy in the entry. v. 6. He faid furthermore unto me, Son of man, feest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Ifrael committeth here, that I fhould go far off from my fanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou fhalt fee greater abominations, &c. to the end of the chapter.

49. p.Exod. xx. 4, 5, 6.

50. q Deut. xxxii. 46. And he faid unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I teftify among you this day: which ye fhall command your children to obferve to do all the words of this law.

Mat. xxviii. 20. Teaching them to obferve all things whatfoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Acts ii. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

51. Deut. iv. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves (for ye faw no manner of fimilitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire) v. 16. Left ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the fimilitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, v. 17. The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, v. 18. The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of a

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Q. 52. What are the reasons annexed to the fecond commandment?

A. The reafons annexed to the fecond commandment aré, God's fovereignty over ust, his propriety in us, and the zeal he hath to his own worship w.

Q. 53. Which is the third commandment?

A. The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltlefs that taketh his name in vain x.

Q54. What is required in the third commandment? A. The third commandment requireth the holy and reverend ufe of God's name y, titles z, attributes a, ordinan

ny fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: v. 19. And left thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou feest the fun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the hoft of heaven, fhould it be driven to worship them, and ferve then, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. Exod. xxxii. 5. And when Aaron faw it, he built an altar before it: and, Aaron made proclamation, and faid, Tomorrow is a feat to the Lord. v. 8. They have turned afide quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have facrificed thereunto, and faid, Thefe be thy gods, O Ifrael, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Deut. xii. 39. Thou shalt not do fo unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord which he hateth, have they done unto their gods: for even their fons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. v. 32. What

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thing foever I command you, obferve to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

52. Pfa. xcv. 2. Let us come be fore his prefence with thanfgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with pfalms. v. 3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King a bove all gods. v. 6. O come let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

v Pfal. xlv. 11. So fhall the King greatly defire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

w Exod. xxxiv. 13. But ye fhall deftroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. v. 14. For thou fhalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whofe name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

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