107. Queft. Which is the Second Commandment ? Anfw. The Second Commandment is, Thou thalt not make unto thee any graven Image, o2 any Likeness of any Thing that is in heaven above, o2 that is in the Earth beneath, o2 that is in the Water under the Earth. Thou thalt not bow down thy lelf to them, no2 serve them: For I the Low thy God am a jealous God, visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Childzen unto the Third and Fourth Generation of them that hate me: And thewing Mercy unto Thousands of them that love me, and keep my Commandments ". 108. Queft. What are the Duties required in the Second Commandment? Anfw. The Duties required in the Second Commandment, are the Receiving, Obferving, and keeping pure and entire, all fuch Religious Worship and Ordinances as God hath inftituted in hisWord: particularly Prayer and Thanksgiving in the Name of Chrift; the Reading, Preaching, and Hearing 107. Exod. 20. 4, 5, 6. 108. Deut. 32.46. And he faid unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I teftify among you this day; which ye fhall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. v. 47. For it is not a vain thing for you: because it is your life ; and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land whither ye go over Jordan to poffefs it. Mat.28.20.Teaching them to observe all things whatfoever I have commanded you: and lo,Iam with you alway even unto the end of the world. Alts 2.42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apoAles doctrine and fellowship, and in of breaking of bread, and in prayers. 1 Tim. 6. 13. I give thee charge in the fight of God, who quickneth all things, and before Chrift Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witneffed a good confeffion; v. 14. That thou keep this commandment without fpot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jefus Chrift. P Phil. 4. 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Eph. 5.20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Dent. of the Word ; the Administration and Receiving of the Sacraments; Church-government and Difcipline, the Ministry and Maintenance thereof t; Reli 9 Dest. 17. 18. And it fhall be thee and him alone: if he fhall when he fitteth upon the throne of hear thee, thou haft gained thy his kingdom, that he fhall write him brother. v. 16. But if he will nor a copy of this law in a book, out of hear thee, then take with thee one that which is before the priests the or two more, that in the mouth of Levites. v.19. And it shall be with two or three witnefles every word him, and he shall read therein all may be eftablished. v. 17. And if the days of his life: that he may he thall neglect to hear them, tell learn to fear the Lord his God, to it unto the church but if he ne keep all the words of this law and glect to hear the church, let him thefe ftatutes to do them. Acts 15. be unto thee as an heathen man 21. For Mofes of old time hath in and a publican. Mat. 16. 19. And every city them that preach him, I will give unto thee the keys of the being read in the fynagogues every kingdom of heaven; and whatsofabbath-day. 2 Tim. 4. 2. Preach ever thou fhalt bind on earth, thall the word, be instant in season, out be bound in heaven: and whatfoof season; reprove, rebuke, exhort ever thou shalt loose on earth, shall with all long-fuffering and doctrine, beloofed in heaven. 1 Cor. 5. chap Jam. 1. 21. Wherefore lay apart all ter. I Cor. 12. 28. And God hath filthinefs, and fuperfluity of naugh- fet fome in the church, firft apo tinefs, and receive with meeknefs the ingrafted word, which is able to fave your fouls. v. 22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own felves. Acts 10. 33. Immediately therefore I fent to thee; and thou haft well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here prefent before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.. ftles, fecondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diverfities of tongues Eph. 4. 11. And he gave fome apoftles: and fome, prophets: and fome, evangelifts: and fome, pai ftors and teachers; v. 12. For the perfecting of the faints, for the work of the miniftry, for the edi fying of the body of Chrift. 1 Tim. Mat. 28. 19. Go ye therefore 5. 17. Let the elders that rule well, and teach all nations, baptizing be counted worthy of double hothem in the name of the Father, nour, especially they who labour and of the Son, and of the holy in the word and doctrine. v. 18. Ghoft. I Cor. 11. from verfe 23. to For the fcripture faith, Thou shalt 30. For I have received of the Lord, not muzzle the ox that treadeth that which alfo I delivered unto you, out the corn: and, The labourer is that the Lord Jefus, the fame night worthy of his reward. in which he was betrayed, took bread, &c... Mat, 18. 15. Moreover, if thy brother hall trefpafs against thee, go and tell him his fault between I Cor. 9.7. to 15. Who, goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof or who feedeth a S flock, Religious Fafting; Swearing by the Name of God", and Vowing unto him. As alfo the Disapproving, Detefting, Opposing all falfe Worship; and according to each one's Place and Calling, Removing it and all Monuments of Idolatry 2. 109. Queft. What are the Sins forbidden in the Second Commandment? Anfw. The Sins forbidden in the Second Commandment, are all Devifing, Counselling, Com flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock &c. mand with him. Pfalm 16.4. Their for rows fhall be multiplied, that haften after another god: their drink-offerings of blood will not I offer, nor take up their names into my lips. Joel 2. 12. Therefore alfo now, faith the Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fafting, and with weeping, and with mourn- Deut. 7. 5. But thus fhall ye deal ing. v. 13. And rent your heart with them, ye fhall deftroy their aland not your garments, and turn tars, and break down their images, unto the Lord your God: for he is and cut down their groves, and burn gracious and merciful,--- 1 Cor. their graven images with fire. Ifa. 7.5. Defraud you not one the other, 30. 22. Ye fhall defile alfo the coveexcept it be with confent for a time, ring of thy graven images of filver, that ye may give your felves to faft and the ornament of thy molten ing and prayer; images of gold thou fhalt caft them away as a menftruous cloth; thoufhalt fay unto it,Get thee hence. Deut. 6. 13. Thoufhalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and fhalt fwear by his name. ▾ Ifa. 19. 21. And the Lord fhall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians fhall know the Lord in that day, and fhall do facrifice and oblation, yea, they fhall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it. Pfalm 76. 11. Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God; let all that be round about him bring prefents unto him that ought to be feared. Alts 17. 16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his fpirit was ftirred in him, when he faw all the city wholly given to idolatry. v. 17. Therefore difputed he in the fynagogue with the Jews, and with the devout perfons, and in the market daily with them that met 109. Num. 15. 39. And it fhall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them: and that ye feek nor after your own heart, and your own eyes, after which ye ufe to go a whoring. Deut. 13. 6. If thy brother the fon of thy mother, or thy fon, og thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofom, or thy friend, which is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, faying, Let us go and ferve other gods which thou haft not known, thou, nor thy fathers; v.7. Namely of the gods of the people which are round about you, high unto thee, or far off manding, Ufing, and any wife Approving any Religious Worship not inftituted by God himlelf; Tollerating a falfe Religion : the making any Representation of God, of all or of any of the Three Perfons, either inwardly in our Mind, or outwardly in any Kind of Image or Likeness of any Creature off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth.) v. 8. Thou shalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither fhall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou fpare, neither fhalt thou conceal him. • Hof. s. II. Ephraim is oppreffed and broken in judgment: because he willingly walked after the commandment. Mic. 6. 16. For the ftatutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counfels, that I fhould make thee a defolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hiffing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. whatfo ftroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods, laying, How did thefe nations ferve their gods? even fo will I do likewife. v. 31. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord which he hateth, have they done unto their gods: for even their fons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. v. 32. What thing foever I command you, obferve to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminifh from it.. Deut. 13. from verfe 6. to 12. [See letter b.] Zech. 13. 2. And it fhall come to pafs in that day, faith the Lord of hofts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they fhall no more be remembred: and alfo I will caufe the pro phets, and the unclean fpirit to pafs out of the land. v. 3. And it thall come to pass, that when any fhall yet prophefie, then his father and his mother, that begat him, fhall fay unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou fpeakeft lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother, that begat him, fhall thruft him through when he prophefieth. Rev. 2. 2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou haft tried them which fay they are apoftles, and are not; Deut. 12. 30. Take heed to thy and haft found them liars. v. 14 felf that thou be not snared by fol--But I have a few things against thee, lowing them, after that they be de d1 Kings 11. 33. Because that they have forfaken me, and have worshipped Afhtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemoth the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my ftatutes and my judgments, as did David his father. 1 Kings 12. 33. So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el, the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and ordained a feaft unto the children of Ifrael, and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incenfe. S 2 be whatsoever; all Worfhipping of it, or God in it or by it; the making of any Reprefentation of feigned because thou haft there them that likeness of any fish that is in the hold the doctrine of Balaam, who waters beneath the earth. v.19. And taught Balak to caft a ftumbling- left thou lift up thine eyes unto heablock before the children of Ifrael, ven, and when thou feeft the fun, to eat things facrificed unto idols, and the moon, and the stars, even and to commit fornication. v. 15. all the hoft of heaven, fhouldft be So haft thou also them that hold the driven to worship them, and ferve doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which them, which the Lord thy God hath thing I hate. v. 20. Notwithstand- divided unto all nations under the ing, I have a few things against whole heaven. Acts 17, 29. Forthee, because thou fuffereft that afmuch then as we are the offfpring woman Jezabel, which calleth her of God, we ought not to think that felf a prophetess, to teach and to the Godhead is like unto gold, or feduce my fervants to commit for- filver, or ftone graven by art and nication, and to eat things facri- mans device. Rom. 1. 21. Because ficed unto idols. Rev. 17. 12. And that when they knew God, they the ten horns which thou faweft, glorified him not as God, neither are ten kings, which have received were thankful, but became vain no kingdom as yet; but receive in their imaginations, and their power as kings one hour with the foolish heart was darkned. V. 22. beaft. v. 16. And the ten horns profeffing themselves to be wife, which thou faweft upon the beaft, they became fools: v. 23. And thefe fhall hate the whore, and changed the glory of the uncorfhall make her defolate, and naked, ruptible God, into an image made and fhall eat her flesh, and burn her like to corruptible man, and to with fire. v. 17. For God hath put birds, and fourfooted beafts, and in their hearts to fulfil his will, and creeping things. v. 25. Who changto agree, and give their kingdom ed the truth of God, into a lie, and unto the beaft, until the words of worshipped and served the creature God fhall be fulfilled. more than the Creator, who is bleffed for ever. Amen. 8 Deut. 4. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto your felves (for ye faw no manner of fimilitude on the day that the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire) v. 16. Left ye corrupt your felves, and make you a graven image, the fimilitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, V. 17. The likeness of any beast that s on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, v. 18. The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the |