the Lord God of Ifrael, with all his Heart: For he departed not from the Sins of Jeroboam, which made Ifrael to fin.

Q. 8. What other Sin is forbidden in this Command ?

A. It forbids all light and irreverent Ufe of the Scriptures, efpecially in our Jefts, or by Way of Scoffing, Jer. xvii. 15. Behold they fay unto me, where is the Word of the Lord? let it come now, Jer. vi. 10. Behold the Word of the Lord is unto them a Reproach: they have no Delight in it. Q. 9. By what Argument doth God enforce the third Commandment on Men?

A. That the Breakers of this Command fhall furely be punished by the Lord, either in this Life, Deut. xxviii. 58, 59. If thou wilt not obferve to do all the Words of this Law, that are written in this Book, that thou mayft fear this glorious and fearful Name, The Lord thy God: Then the Lord will make thy Plagues wonderful, and the Plagues of thy Seed, even great Plagues, and of long Continuance, and fore Sickness, and of long Continuance: Or in that to come, Rom. ii. 5. But after thy Hardness and impenitent Heart, treasureft up unto thyself Wrath against the Day of Wrath, and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God: Except they repent and reform.

Q. 10. What's the firft Inftruction from the third Commandment?

A. That great and infinite is the Patience of God in forbearing provoking Sinners fo long as he doth, Romans ix. 22. What if God willing to fhew his Wrath, and to make his Power known, endured with much long-fuffering the Veffels of Wrath fitted to Deftruction?

Q. 11. What's the fecond Inftruction from hence ?

A. That God is to be juftified in the fevereft of his Judg ments, by which at any Time he manifefts his Difpleasure against the Profanenefs of the World, Hof. iv. 1, 2, 3. 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. By Swearing, and Lying, and Killing, and Stealing, and committing Adultery, they break out, and Blood toucheth Blood. Therefore fhall the Land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein fball languish, with the Beasts of the Field, and with the Forels of Heaven, yea the Fishes of the Sea also shall be taken away.

Q. 12. What's the third Inftruction from hence ?

A. That God takes fpecial Notice of, and greatly delighteth in them that fear and reverence his Name, Ifa. 66. 5. Hear the Word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his Word: Your Brethren that hated you, that caft you out for my Name's Sake, faid, let the Lord be glorified; but he shall appear to your Joy, and thy fhall be ashamed, Mal. iii. 16.-And a Book of Remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his Name.

Q. 13. What's the laft Inference from hence?

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A. That thofe Parents have much to answer for, that by their Examples teach, or by their Negligence encourage their Children to profane God's Name, Jer. v. 7. fball I pardon thee for this? Thy Children have forfaken me, and fworn by them that are no Gods, &c.

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Queft. 57. WHICH is the fourth Commandment?

A. The fourth Commandment is, [Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy: Six Days alt thou labour, and do all thy Work; but the feventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any Work, thou nor thy Son, nor thy Daughter, thy ManServant, nor thy Maid-Servant, nor thy Cattle, nor thy Stranger which is within thy Gates: For in fix Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh Day, wherefore the Lord bleffed the Sabbath-Day, and hallowed it.]

Queft. 58. What is required in the fourth Commandment? A. The fourth Commandment requireth the keeping holy to God, fuch fet Time as he hath appointed in his Word, expressly one whole Day in feven, to be an holy Sabbath unto the Lord.

Queft. 59. Which Day of the Seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?

A. From the Beginning of the World to the Refurrection of Chrift, God hath appointed the feventh Day of the Week to be the weekly Sabbath; and the firft Day of the Week M

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ever fince, to continue to the End of the World, which is the Chriftian Sabbath.

Q. 1. What fpecial Marks of Honour hath God fet upon this fourth Commandment?

A. God hath fet four peculiar Marks of Honour on it. (1.) It is the largest of all the Commands.

(2.) It hath a folemn Memento prefixed to it.

(3.) It is delivered both pofitively and negatively, which the reft are not. And,

(4.) It is enforced with more Arguments to ftrengthen the Command on us, than any other.

Q. 2. Why will God have a Sabbath obferved on Earth? A. God will have a Sabbath on Earth, to give us therein an Emblem of that eternal Sabbath in Heaven, wherein his People fhall be ferving him, and praifing him without Interruption, or mixture of any other Bufinefs throughout Eternity; Heb. iv. 9. There remaineth therefore a Reft to the People of God.

Q3. For what other Reasons will God have a Sabbath? A. he will have a Sabbath for the Honour of his Name, Ifa. lviii. 13. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy Pleasure on my holy Day, and call the Sabbath a Delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and fhalt honour him, not doing thine own Ways, nor finding thine own Pleasure, nor Speaking thine own Words. For the good of Mens Souls, Mark ii. 27. And he faid unto them, the Sabbath was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath. And in Mercy to the Bodies of Men and Beafts.

Q. 4. Is this Commandment moral and perpetual, or ceremonial and temporary?

A. It is, and muft needs be moral, and not ceremonial; becaufe ail the Reafons that enforce it, are perpetual, and the Sabbath continued, when the ceremonial Law ceafed, and was vanifhed, Matth. xxiv. 20. But pray ye, that your Flight be not in the Winter, neither on the Sabbeth-Day.

Q5. What Day of the feven is the Christian Sabbath? A. The first Day of the Week is our Sabbath, fince the Refurrection of Chrift. This is the Day which was foretold to be our Sabbath, Pfal. cxviii. 24. This is the Day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. The

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Lord hath marked it for himself by fetting his own Name on it, Rev, i. 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day. And the Apostles and primitive Church conftantly fet it apart to religious Ufes and Ends, Acts xx. 7. And upon the first Day of the Week, when the Difciples came together to break Bread, Paul preached unto them, &c. 1 Cor. xvi. 2. Upon the first Day of the Week, let every one of you lay by him in Store, as God bath profpered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Q. 6. When doth the Chriftian Sabbath begin?

A. It appears that this Day is not to be reckoned from Evening to Evening, but from Morning to Morning; because the Chriftian Sabbath must begin, when the Jewish Sabbath ended, but that ended towards Morning, Matth. xxviii. 1. In the End of the Sabbath, as it began to davon, towards the firft Day of the Week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary to fee the Sepulchre.

Q. 7. What is the Ground of changing the Day?

A. The folemn Commemoration of our Redemption by the Refurrection of Christ from the Dead, is the Ground of tranflating the Sabbath from the feventh to the first Day of of the Week, Pfal. cxviii. 24. This is the Day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it, Mark xvi. S. Now when Jefus was rifen early the firft Day of the Week, be appeared firft to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast Seven Devils.

Q. 8. Is it the whole Day, or only fome Hours of the Day that are fet apart for God?

A. Not a Part, but the whole Day is the Lord's, and it is as dangerous to halve it with God in Point of Time as it was for Annanias and Sapphira to halve their dedicated Goods, and bring in but a Part. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath Day, is the Command.

Q. 9. Is there any other Day holy befide this?

A. No Day but this is holy by Institution of the Lord; yet Days of Humiliation and Thanksgiving may be lawfully fet apart by Men on a Call of Providence; but Popish Holydays are not warrantable, nor to be obferved, Gal. iv. 10. Te obferve Days, and Months, and Times, and Years.

Q10. But feeing every Day, fhould be a Sabbath to a Chrillian, what needs any other fét Time?

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A. Though Chriftians muft walk every Day with God, yet every Day cannot be a Sabbath, becaufe God calls us to other Duties on those Days, but will have this to be a folemn and entire Day to himself.

Q11. But if a Man fcruple the change of the Sabbath, may he not keep both Days weekly?

A. No; for then by doing more than God requires, he breaks a plain Command, Six Days fhalt thou labour.

Q. 12. At what Time fhould Chriftians be up, and at their Duties on the Lord's Day?

A. As early in the Morning as their Strength will permit, to prepare by private for publick Duties; yet the publick are not to be entrenched on by private Duties, Ats x. 33.Now therefore are we all bere prefent before God, to hear all Things that are commanded thee of God.

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OW is the Sabbath to be fanctified? A. The Sabbath is to be fanctified by an holy refting all that Day, even from fuch worldly Employments and Recreations as are lawful on other Days, and pending the whole Time in the publick and private Exercifes of God's Worship, except fo much as is to be taken op in the Works of Neceffity and Mercy.

Quelt. 61. What are the Sins forbidden in the fourth Commandment ?

A. The fourth Commandment forbiddeth the Omifion or careless Performance of the Duties required, and the profaning the Day by Idlenefs, or doing that which is in itself finful, or by unneceffary Thoughts, Words or Works, about our worldly Employments or Recreations.

Quelt. 62. What are the Reasons annexed to the fourth Commandment ?

A. The Reafons annexed to the fourth Commandment are, Gods allowing us fix Days of the Week for our own Employment, his challenging a fpecial Propriety in the fe venth, his own Example, and his Bleffing the Sabbath Day. Q. 1. What is the reft which God requires on the Sabbath?