that therefore we are bound to take him for our God alone and to keep all his commandments/ Q. 102. What is the fum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God? A. The fum of the four commandments containing our duty to God, is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our foul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind m. Q. 103. Which is the first commandment? A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me n.. Q. 104. What are the duties required in the first commandment? A. The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God o; and to worship and glorify V. 75. In holiness and righteouf nefs 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. Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy. v. 17. And if ye call on the Father, who without refpect of perfons judgeth according to every man's work, pafs the time of your fojourning here in fear: V. 18. Forafmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers. Lev. xviii. 30. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein I am the Lord your God. Lev. xix. 37. Therefore fhall ye obferve all my ftatutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord. : 102. m Luke x. 27. And he anvering, faid, Thou shalt love the him Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy ftrength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thy self. 103. n Exod. xx. 3. 104.1 Chron. xxviii. 9. And thou, Solomon my fon, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind: for the Lord fearcheth all hearts, and underftandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou feek him, he will be found of thee: but if thou forfake him, he will caft thee off for ever. Deut. xxvi. 17. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his ffatutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice. If. xliii. 10. Ye are my witnesses, faith the Lord, and my fervant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and underftand that I am he: "before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me., Jer. xiv. 22. Are there any among the vanities of him accordingly p, by thinking q, meditating r, remem bering, highly esteeming t, honouring v, adoring w choofing loving y, defiring z, fearing of him a; believing him b; trufting c, hoping d, delighting e, rejoi of the Gentiles that can cause rain ? or can the heavens give fhowers? Art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee; for thou haft made all these things. p Pfal. xcv. 6. O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. v. 7. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pafture, and the fheep of his hand. Matth. iv. 10. Then faith Jefus unto him, Get thee hence Satan for it is writ ten, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve. Pfal.xxix. 2. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holinefs. q Mal. iii. 16. Then they that feared the Lord, fpake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. r Pfal. lxiii. 6. When I remember. thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night-watches. Eccl. xii. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou fhalt fay, I have no pleasure in them. t Pfal. lxxi. 19. Thy righteouf nefs alfo, O God, is very high, who haft done great things: O God, who is like unto thee? v. Mal. i. 6. A fon honoureth his father, and a fervant his mafter; if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a mafter, where is my fear? faith the Lord of hofts unto you, O priests that despise my name. 1 Cing w If. xlv. 23. I have fworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteoufnefs, and shall not return, that unto me every knee fhall bow, every tongue fhall fwear. x Jofh. xxiv. 15. and if it seem evil unto you to ferve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will ferve, whether the gods which your fathers ferved, that were on the other fide of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my houfe, we will ferve the Lord, v. 22. And Joshua faid unto the people, Ye are witneffes against yourselves, that ye have chofen the Lord, to ferve him. And they faid, We are witneffes. ལ་ y Deut. vi. 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy might. z Pfal. Ixxiii. 25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I defire befides thee. a If. viii. 13. Sanctify the Lord of hofts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. b Exod. xiv. 31. And Ifrael faw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his fervant Mofes. him eing in him ƒ; being zealous for him g; calling upon giving all praife and thanks h, and yielding all obedience and fubiniffion to him with the whole man i; being careful in all things to pleafe him k, and forrowful when in any thing he is offended ; and walking humbly with him m. Q. 105. What are the fins forbidden in the first commandment? A. The fins forbidden in the first commandment are, Atheism, in denying, or not having a God n; Idolatry, in having or worshipping more gods than one, or any with or instead of the true God o; the not having and avouch felf alfo in the Lord; and he fhall give thee the defires of thine heart. ƒ Pfal. xxxii, 11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous; and fhout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. XXV g Rom. xii. 11. Not flothful in bufinefs, fervent in fpirit; ferving the Lord. Compared with Numb. 11. Phinehas the fon of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Ifrael (while he was zealous for my fake among them) that I confumed not the children of Ifrael in my jealousy. h Phil. iv. 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known un to God. unto i Jer. vii. 23. But this thing commanded I them, faying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye fhall be my people and walk ye in all the ways that I have command ed you, that it may be well you. Jam. iv. 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God; refift the devil, and he will flee from you. k1 John iii. 22. And whatfoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do thofe things that are pleafing in his fight. I ing / Jer. xxxi. 18. I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himfelf thus, Thou haft chaftifed me, and I was chaftifed, as a bullock unaccuftomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I fhall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Pfal. cxix. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes: because they keep not thy law. m Mic. vi. 8. He hath fhewed 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? 105. n Pfal. xiv. 1. The fool hath faid in his heart, There is no God: they are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doth good. Eph. ii. 12. That at that time ye were without Chrift, being aliens from the common wealth of Ifrael, and strangers from the covenants of promife, having no hope, and without God in the world. o Jer. ii. 27. Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou haft brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will fay, Arife, and fave us. v. 28. But where are thy gods that thou haft made thee? let them arife if they can ing him for God, and our God p; the omiffion or neglect of any thing due to him, required in this commandment q; ignorance r, forgetfulness, mifapprehenfions t, falfe 0pinions v, unworthy and wicked thoughts of him w; bold and curious fearching into his fecrets x; all profaneness y, hatred can fave thee in the time of thy trouble for according to the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah. Compared with 1 Theff. i. 9. For they themfelves fhew of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to ferve the liv. ing and true God, p Pfal. lxxxi. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice: and Ifrael would none of me. If. xliii. 22. But thou haft not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou haft been weary of me, O Ifrael. v. 23. Thou haft not brought me the fmall cattle of thy burnt-offerings,neither haft thou honoured me with thy facrifices. I have not caufed thee to ferve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incenfe. 24. Thou haft bought me no fweet cane with money, neither haft thou filled me with the fat of thy facrifices: but thou haft made me to serve with thy fins, thou haft wearied me with thine iniquities. V. r Jer. iv. 22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me, they are fottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wife to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Hof. iv. I. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Ifrael: for the Lord hath a controverfy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. v. 6. My people are deftroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou haft rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou fhalt be no priest to me: feeing thou haft forgotten the law of thy God, I will alfo forget thy children. Jer. ii. 32. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. t. Acts xvii. 23. For as I paffed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this infcription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD, Whom therefore ye ignorantly worfhip, him declare I unto you. v. 29. Forafmuch then as we are the offfpring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or filver, or stone graven by art and man's device. v If. xl. 18. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likenefs will ye compare unto him? w Pfal. 1. 21. Thofe things hast thou done, and I kept filence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether fuch a one as thyfelf: but I will reprove thee, and fet them in order before thine eyes. x Deut. xxix. 29. The fecret things belong unto the Lord our God: but thofe things which are revealed, belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. y Tit. i. 16. They profefs that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and difobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Heb. xii. 16. Left there be any fornicator, or profane perfon, as Efau, who for one morfel of meat fold his birthright. Rom hatred of God z; felf-love a, felf-seeking b, and all other inordinate and immoderate fetting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in parte; vain credulity d, unbelief e, herefy f, misbelief g, diftruft h, defpair i; incorrigibleness k, and infenfiblenefs under judgments 1, hardness of heart m, pride n, prefumption o, carnal fecurity, z Rom. i. 30. Backbiters, haters of God, defpiteful, proud, boafters.a 2 Tim. iii. 2. For men fhall be lovers of their own felves, covetous, boasters, proud, blafphemers, difobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. b Phil. ii. 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are Jefus Chrift's. c. 1 John ii. 15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. v. 16. For all that is in the world, the luft of the flesh, and the luft of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 Sam. ii. 29. Wherefore kick ye at my facrifice, and at mine offering which I have comb manded in my habitation, and honoureft thy fons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefeft of all the offerings of Ifrael my people? Col. iii. 2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. v. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleannefs, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetoufness, which is idolatry. d1 John iv. 1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the fpirits whether they are of God: because many falfe prophets are gone out into the world. e Heb. iii. 12. Take heed, brethren, left there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in deParting from the living God. f Gal. v. 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ftrife, feditions, herefies. Tit. iii. 10. A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admotion, reject. g Acts xxvi. 9. I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jefus of Nazareth. h Pfal. lxxviii. 22. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his falvation! i Gen. iv. 13. And Cain faid unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. k Jer. v. 3. O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou haft ftricken them, but they have not grieved; thou haft confumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refused to return. / If. xlii. 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the ftrength of battle: and it hath fet him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. m Rom. ii. 5. But after thy hard nefs and impenitent heart, treasure! up unto thyfelf wrath against the day of wrath,and revelation of the right eous judgment of God. n Jer. xiii. 15. Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud: for th Lord hath fpoken. • Pfal. xix. 13. Keep back thy fervant |