97. Is not the Moral Law binding upon all mankind?

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the Lord your God. And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them; I am the Lord which sanctify you. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before GOD. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward. Lev. 20.7, 8. Rom. 3. 19. Ps. 19, 11. ||Jam. 2. 8-10. Rom. 7. 7-12.

98. Does not a conviction of the purity, extent, and spirituality of the Divine law tend to endear Christ (who "is the end of the law for righteousness) to every one who believeth ?"

For I delight in the law of GOD after the inward man. But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, GoD sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. That the righteous

ness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious; but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner. Rom. 7. 22-25, and 8. 1-4. 1 Pet. 2. 7. || Mat. 9. 12. Gal. 3. 13,14, 24.

99. What sublime and impressive scenes preceded and attended the promulgation of the MORAL LAW?

And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking and when the people saw, it they removed and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: For God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, Whose

voice then shook the earth; but now he hath promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things, that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken, may remain. Ex. 19. 16, 18, 19. and 20. 18-20. Heb. 12. 25-27. || Deut. 5. 22—27. Ex. 15. 11. Ps. 77. 18.

100. Is idolatry forbidden, and are awful threatenings denounced against it in the word of God?

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you. (For the Lord thy GOD is a jealous GoD among you ;) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy GoD, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Ex. 20. 3. Is. 26. 4. Deut. 6. 14, 15. and 8. 19. Jer. 25. 4-7. Josh, 24. 20. Eph. 5. 5. Col. 3. 5.

101. Is image worship forbidden by JEHOVAH?

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 'serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,

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visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my com. mandments. I am the Lord: that is my name : and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Ex. 20. 4-6. Is. 42. 8. Rev. 14. 911. Deut. 4. 15, 16, 23. Is. 2. 8-12. 18-21. Ez. 8. 12, 18.

102. Is it our duty to worship the God of heaven by prayer in secret, in private and in publick?

But thou when thou prayest,enter into thy closet, and, when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord. Mat. 6. 6. Ps. 116. 17—19. || Ps. 96. 8; 9. Mat. 18. 19, 20, Is, 56. 7.

103. What form of prayer has our blessed Saviour given us?

After this manner therefore pray ye; Our Father which, art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is done in heaven, Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. (q) Mat. 6. 9-13.

104. How did Daniel pray when in captivity ?

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: and I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful GoD, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judg ments. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses,though we have rebelled against him; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our GoD, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. O my GoD, incline (9) See Appendix, Note Q