ness; know that he made us and not we ourselves, Jer. x. 7. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for unto thee it appertaineth. น J Q. 4. How are we bound and obliged to keep God's commandments, as he is our God? A. We are bound and obliged to keep God's commandments, as he is our God, because as our God, he hath taken us into covenant, and brought us into a special relation unto himself, and hereby laid a greater obligation upon us to do him service, Deut. xi. J. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments always. Q. 5. How are we bound and obliged to keep God's commandments, as he is our Redeemer ? A. We are bound and obliged to keep God's commandments, as he is our Redeemer: because God hath redeemed us for this end, that being free from the slavery of sin and Satan, we might be encouraged and enabled to yield obedience unto him, 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20. You are not your own, for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's, Luke i. 74, 75. That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. 45. Q. Which is the first commandment ? * A. The first commandment is, (Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.) 46. Q. What is required in the first commandment? A. The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God, and to worship and glorify him accordingly. Q. 1. How many duties are there chiefly required in the first commandment? A. There are three duties chiefly required in the first commandment: 1. To know God, 1 Chron xxviii. 9. And thou Solomon, my Son, know thou the God of thy father. 2. To acknowledge God, Deut. xxvi. 17. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. 3. To worship and glorify God, Matt. iv. 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve. Q. 2. What are we bound to know concerning God? A. We are bound to know: 1. That God is, or that there is a God. 2. What God is, in all those glorious attributes and perfections, whereby he hath made himself known. Q. 3. How ought we to acknowledge God? A. 1. We ought to acknowledge God to be the only true God, I Cor. viii. 6. Unto us there is but one God. 3. We ought to take and own God, for our God, Psal. xlviii. 14. This God is our God. Q., 4. How ought we to worship and glorify God? A. We ought to worship and glorify God, as the only right object of divine worship and honour: 1. In our minds by thinking, meditating, remembering, and highly esteeming of him, Mal. iii. 16. A book of remembrance was written before him for them that thought on his name, Psalm lxiii. 6. When I remember thee on my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches, Psalm lxxi. 19. O God, who is like unto thee? 2. In our wills, by choosing him for our chief good, and devoting ourselves to his service, Josh. xxiv. 22. Ye have chosen the Lord to serve him. 3. In our hearts, by loving him, desiring him, fearing him, believing and trusting in him, grieving for our sins against him, hoping in him, delighting and re-. joicing in him, Deut. x. 12. And now Israel, what doth the Lord require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to love him? &c. Isa. xxvi. 8. The desire of our soul is to thy name, Exod. xvi. 31. And the people believed the Lord, and his servant Moses, Isa. xxvi. 4. Trust ye in the Lord forever, Psalm xxxi. 18. I will be sorry for my sin, Psalm ciii. 17. Let Israel hope in the Lord, Psal. xxxvii. 4. Delight. thyself in the Lord. 4. In our lips, by calling upon him, and speaking well of his name, Phil. iv. 6. In every thing by prayer and supplication, with, thanks giving let your requests be made known unto God, Psalm cxlv. I. My mouth shall speak the praises of the Lord. 5. In our lives, by yielding all obedience unto him, being zealous for his glory, careful to please him, fearful of offending him, and by walking humbly before him, Jer. i. 23. This thing I command thee, obey my voice, and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded. - John ii. 17. The zeal of thy Walk worthy of house hath eaten me up, Col. i. 10, 47. Q. What is forbidden in the first commandment? A. The first commandment forbiddeth, the denying or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God, and our Ged; and the giving that worship and glory to any other which is due to him alone. Q. What are the chief sins forbidden in the first commandment? A. The chief sins forbidden in the first commandment, are; 1. Atheism. 2. Profaneness. 3. Idolatry. Q. 2. What is Atheism? A. Atheism is the denying, or not having a God, Psal. xiv. 1. The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God, Eph. ii. 11. And at that time ye were without Christ, having no hope, and without God in the world. Q. 3. What is the profaneness forbidden in this. commandment? A. The profaneness forbidden in this commandment, is the not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God, and our God. Q. 4. Wherein doth this profaneness, in regard of God's worship and honour appear? A. Profaness in regard of God's worship and honour doth appear: 1. When persons do not know God, or have misapprehensions of him, Jer. iv. 22. My people is foolish, they have not known me, Psal. 1. 21. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself. 2. When persons are forgetful of God, Jer. ii. 32. My & 1 people have forgotten me, days without number. 3. When persons hate God, or love themselves or any thing else more than God desire creatures more than God, trust in arms of flesh more than God, delight in objects of sense more than God; when persons set any affection upon any thing in the world more than God, and take off the heart in whole, or in any part from God, Rom. viii. 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God, 1 John ii. 15. Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Col. iii. 2. Set your affec tions on things above, not on things on the the earth 4. When persons omit or neglect to give that worship and glory which is due unto God, either with the inward or outward man, Isa. xliii. 32. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, &c. Q. 5. What is that idolatry which is forbidden in the first commandment? A. The idolatry which is forbidden in the first commandment, is the giving that worship and glory to any other, which is due to God alone, Rom. i. 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lye, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Q. 6. How many ways may persons be guilty of the idolatry forbidden in this commandment? A. Persons may be guilty of the idolatry forbidden in this commandment: 1. By having and worshipping other gods, besides the true God, with the outward man; as persons worship the heathen gods or angels or saints. 2. By giving that honour and respect to any thing in the world, which is due noly to God in the inward man, which is heart idolatry, Col. iii. 5. And covetousness, which is idolatry. 48. Q. What are we especially taught py these words (before Me) in the first commandment? A. These words (before Me) in the first commandment, teacheth us, that God who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God, Q. 1. How doth it appear that God seeth all things? A. It doth appear that God seeth all things, because God is every where present, and his infinite understanding, Jer. xxiii. 24. Can a man hide himself in secret places, and shall not I see him? saith the Lord : Do not I fill heaven and earth? Psalm cxlvii. 5. His understanding is infinte. "Q. 2. Why doth God take such notice of, and is displeased with the sin of having any other God? A. Because the sin of having any other God, is a great affront unto the holy and jealous eye of God, who will not give his glory to another, Psalm xliv. 20. 21. If we have stretched out our hands unto strange gods, shall not God search this out? Isa. xliv. 8. I am the Lord, that is my name, and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. 49. Which is the second commandment? A. The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or the 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, visiting the inquities 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 commandments. 50. Q, What is required in the second commandment? A. The second commandment requireth the receive ing, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his word. Q. I. How doth the worship required in this commandment, differ from the worship required in the first commandment? A. The worship required in the first commandment, hath a respect unto the object of worship whereby we are bound to worship the true God and none else. The worship required in the second commandment hath a |