ingg, fcorning, reviling i, or any wife oppofing of God's truth, grace, and ways k; making profeffion of religion in hypocrify, or for finifter ends 7; being afhamed of it from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Rom. xiii. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonnefs, not in ftrife and envying, v. 14. But put ye on the Lord Jefus Chrift, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lufts thereof, 1 Kings xxi. 9. And the wrote in the letters, faying, Proclaim a faft, and fet Naboth on high among the people: v. 10. And fet two men, fons of Belial, be fore him, to bear witness against him, faying, Thou didst blafpheme God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him that he may die. Jude 4. For, there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lafciviouf nefs, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jefus Chrift. g Acts xiii. 45. But when the Jews faw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and fpake against thofe things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blafpheming. 1 John iii. 12. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and flew his brother: and wherefore flew he him? becaufe his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. h Pfal. i. I. Bleed is the man that walketh not in the counfel of the ungodly, nor ftandeth in the way of finners, nor fitteth in the feat of the fcornful. 2 Pet. iii. 3. Knowing this first, that there fhall come in the last days fcoffers, walking after their own lufts. i Pet. iv. 4. Wherein they think it ftrange that you run not with them to the fame excess oferior, fpeaking evil of you. k Acts xiii. 45. But when the Jews faw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and fpake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blafpheming. v. 46. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed boid, and said, It was neceffary that the word of God fhould firft have been spoken to you: but feeing ye put it from you, and judge yourfelves unworthy of everlafting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. v. 50. But the Jews ftirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised perfecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them, out of their coafts. Acts iv. 18,, And they called them, and commanded them not to fpeak at all, nor teach in the name of Jefus. Acts xix. 9. But when diverfe were hardned, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the mulutude,, he departed from them, and feparated the difciples, difputing daily in the fchool of one Tyrannus. 1 Theff. ii. 16. Forbidding us to fpeak to the Gentiles, that they might be faved, to fill up their fins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermoft. Heb. x. 29. Of how much forer punishment, fuppofe ye, fhall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was fanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despight unto the Spirit of grace? /2 Tim. iii. 5. Having a form of god it m, or a fhame to it, by uncomfortable n, unwife o, unfruit fulp and offenfive walking q, or backsliding from it r. Q 114. What reafons are annexed to the third command ment? A. The reafons annexed to the third commandment, in these words, (The Lord thy God) For the Lord will not hold him guiltless godliness, but denying the power thereof; from fuch turn away. Mat. xiii. 14. Wo unto you fcribes and Pharifees, hypocrites; for ye devour widow's houses: and for a pretence make long prayers; therefore ye fhall receive the greater damnation. Mat. vi. 1. Take heed that ye do pot your alms before men, to be feen of them: otherwife ye have no reward of your Father who is in heaven. v. 2. Therefore when thou doft thine alms, do not found a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the fynagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glo. ry of men. Verily I fay unto you, they have their reward. v. 5. And when thou prayeft, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they Jove to pray standing in the fynagogues, and in the corners of the Itreets, that they may be feen of men. Verily I fay unto you, they have their reward. v. 16. Moreover, when ye faft, be not as the hypocrites, of a fad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to falt. Verily I fay unto you, they have their reward, Mark viii. 38. Whofoever therefore fhall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and finful generation, of him also fhall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels. # Pfal. 1xxiii. 14. For all the day long have been plagued, and chaftened every morning. v. 15. If I fay, I will speak thus: behold, I fhould offend against the generation of thy children. 01 Cor. vi. 5. I fpeak to your fhame. Is it fo that there is not a wife man among you? no not one that fhall be able to judge between his brethren? v. 6. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Eph. v. 15. See then that ye walk circumfpectly, not as fools, but as wife. v. 16. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. V. 17. Wherefore be ye not unwife, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. plfa. v. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore when I looked that it fhould bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 2 Pet. i. 8. For if thefe things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye fhall neither be barren, nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jefus Chrift. v. 9. But he that lacketh thefe things, is blind, and cannot fee afar off, and bath forgotten that he was purged from his old fins. 9 Rom. ii. 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law difhonoureft thou God? v. 24. For the name of God is blafphemed among the Gentiles, thro' you, as it is written. r Gal. iii. 1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you fhould not obey the truth, before whofe guiltless that taketh his name in vain,) are, because he is the Lord and our God, therefore his name is not to be profaned or any way abused by us t; efpecially because he will be fo far from acquitting and fparing the tranfgreffors of this commandment, as that he will not fuffer them to efcape his righteous judgment v, albeit many fuch escape the cenfures and punishments of men w. Q. 115. Which is the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbathday to keep it holy. Six days fhalt 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 fon, nor thy daughter, thy man-fervant, nor thy maid-fervant, nor thy cattle, whofe eyes Jefus Chrift hath been evidently fet forth, crucified among you? v. 3. Are ye fo foolish? having began in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Heb. vi. 6. If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance: feeing they crucify to themfelves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open fhame. 114./Exod. xx. 7. t Lev: xix. 12. And ye shall not fwear by my name falfly, neither fhalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. v Ezek. xxxvi. 21. But 1 had pity for mine holy name, which the houfe of Ifrael had profaned among the heathen whither they went, v. 22. Therefore fay unto the houfe of Ifrael, thus faith the Lord God, I do not this for your fakes, O houfe of Ifrael, but for mine holy name's fake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 23. And I will fanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen fhall know that I am the Lord, faith the Lord God, when I fhall be fanctified in you, before their eyes. Deut. xxviii. 58. If thou wilt not obferve to do all the words of I Sam, ii. 12. Now the fons of Eli were fons of Belial, they knew not the Lord. v. 17. Wherefore the fin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord, V. ·༡༢་ cattle, nor thy ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day: Wherefore the Lord bleffed the fabbath day and hallowed it x. Q. 116. What is required in the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment requireth of all men the fanctifying or keeping holy to God fuch fet times as he hath appointed in his word, exprefly one whole day in feven; which was the feventh from the beginning of the world to the refurrection of Christ, and the first day of the week ever fince, and fo to continue to the end of the world: which is the Chriftian Sabbath y, and in the New Teftament called, The Lord's 22. Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his fons did unto all Ifrael, and how they lay with the women that affembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congrega tion. v. 24. Nay, my fons: for it is no good report that I hear; ye make the Lord's people to tranfgrefs. Compared with 1 Sam, iii. 13. For I have told him, that I will judge his honfe for ever, for the iniquity which he knoweth: because his fons made themfelves vile, and he restrained them not. 115.x Exod. xx. 8, 9, 10, 11. 116. Deut. v. 12. Keep the fabbath day to fanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. v. 13. Six days fhalt thou labour, and do all thy work: v. 14. Bus the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou fhalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, nor thy daughter, nor thy man fervant, nor thy maid fervant, nor thine ox, nor thine afs, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy ftranger that is within thy gates; that thy manfervant and thy maid fervant may reft as well as thou. Gen. . 2. And on the feventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he Day. refed on the feventh day from all the work which he had made. v. 3. And God bleffed the feventh day, and fanctified it: because that in it he had refted from all his work which God created and made. 1 Cor. xvi. 1. Now concerning the collection for the faints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even fo do ye. v. 2. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in ftore, as God hath profpered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Acts xx. 7. And upon the first day of the week, when the difciples came together to break bread, Paul preached to them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his fpeech until midnight. Mat. v. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to deftroy, but to fulfil. v. 18. For verily I fay unto you, Till heaven and earth pafs, one jot or one tittle fhall in no ways pafs from the law till all be fulfilled. Ifa. Ivi. 2. Bleffed is the man that doth this, and the fon of man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the fabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. v. 4. For thes Day z. Q117. How is the fabbath or Lord's day to be fanctified? A. The fabbath or Lord's day is to be fanctified by an holy refting all that day a, not only from fuch works as are at all times finful, but even from fuch worldly employinents and re creations as are on other days lawful b; and making it our de light to spend the whole time (except fo much of it as is to be taken faith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my fabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant, v. 6. Alfo the fons of the ftrangers that join themfelves to the Lord, to ferve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his fervants, every one that keepeth the fabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant: v. 7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my houfe of prayer: their burnt offerings and their facrifices fhall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine houfe fhall be called an houfe of prayer for all people. z Rev. i. 1o. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard be hind me a great voice, as of a trumpet. 117. a Exod. xx. 8. Remember the fabbath day, to keep it holy. v. 10. But the feventh day is the fabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy fon, &c. b Exod. xvi. 25. And Mofes faid, Eat that to day; for to day is a fabbath unto the Lord; to day ye fhall not find it in the field. v. 26. Six days fhall ye gather it; but on the feventh day which is the fabbath, in it there fhall be none. V. 27. And it came to pass, that there went out fome of the people on the feventh day for to gather, and they found v. 28. And the Lord faid none. unto Mofes, how long refufe ye to keep my commandments and my laws? Neh. xiii. 15. In those days faw I in Judah fome treading wine preffes on the fabbath, and bring ing in fheaves, and lading affes; as alfo wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerufalem on the fabbath-day: and I teftified against them in the day wherein they fold victuals. v. 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, who brought fifh, and all manner of ware, and fold on the fabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerufalem. v. 17. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and faid unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the fabbathday? v. 18. Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Ifrael by profaning the fabbath. v. 19. And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerufalem began to be dark before the fabbath, I commanded that the gates fhould be fhut, and charged that they fhould not be opened till after the fabbath: and fome of my fervants fet Í at the gates, that there fhould no burden be brought in on the fabbath day. V. 20. So the merchants, and fellers of all kind of ware, lodged without Jerufalem once or twice. Then I teftified against them, and V. 21 faid |