The 106th Queftion of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

Q. BUT this Commandment seems to forbid nothing

but Murder?

"A. God, in forbidding Murder, teacheth us, "that he hateth the Root and Caufe of Murder, as Envy, Hatred, Anger, and the Defire of Revenge; and looks upon all this as Murder."

The 107th Question of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

Q. BUT is it enough that we take not away the Life of our Neighbour, as was faid just now? "A. No; for God in forbidding us Envy, Hatred, "and Anger, commands us to love our Neighbour as ourselves, and to treat him with all Manner of "Patience, Peace, Meekness, Mercy and Kindness; to divert and hinder, as much as poffibly we can, "the Mischief which others would do to him, and even to do good to our Enemies."

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The 108th Question of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

Q. WHAT does the feventh Commandment teach

us?

"A. That all Uncleannefs is curfed of God, and "that by Confequence hating it from the Bottom of our Hearts, we ought to live after a manner chafte "and regular, whether in the holy State of Matrimony ¢ or out of that State."

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The 109th Question of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

Q. DOTH God forbid nothing elfe in this Commandment, but Adultery, and fuch Kinds of

Shamefulness?

"A. As our Bodies and Souls are the Temples "of the Holy Spirit, God will have us preferve both "the one and the other pure and holy; and for that "Reason he forbids us all Sorts of Uncleanness, "whether in our Actions, in our Behaviour, in our "Thoughts, in our Words, in our Defires, and "every Thing which may incline Man thereto."

The 110th Queftion of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

Q. WHAT does God forbid us, in the eighth Com

mandment?

"A. Not only thofe Thefts and Robberies, which are Crimes punishable by the Laws, but under the "Name of Theft, he comprehendeth whatsoever " evil Crafts and Tricks, by which we endeavour to "draw to ourselves the Goods of our Neighbour, "whether by open Force, or under Colour of Juftice,

either by falfe Weights, falfe Elns, unequal Mea

fures, deceitful Merchandize, counterfeit Money, "Ufury, or any other Means forbid by God; to "these we may add, all Covetoufnefs, and the mani"fold Waste and Abufe of God's Gifts."

The 111th Question of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

Q. BUT what does God command you here? "A. That according to my Power, I help "and further the Benefit and Advantage of my Neigh bour, and that I deal fo with him, as I would

"defire.

"defire to be dealt with myself. And befides, he "commands me to labour faithfully and industriously, "that I may be able to affift the Poor in their Ne"ceffities."

The 112th Queftion of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

Q. WHAT is in Subftance the Senfe of the ninth

Commandment?

"A. That I fhould not bear falfe Witness against "any Perfon, nor put a wrong Conftruction on his "Words; that I fhould be neither a Back-biter nor "Slanderer; that I fhould not judge any Body, nor "be affiftant to condemn him rafhly, without having "heard him; but that I avoid all Manner of Lying "and Deceit, as fo many Works of the Devil, that " I may not draw upon myself the most severe Ef"fects of the Wrath of God. It commands me

alfo, that whether in Judgment or on any other "Occafion, I be a Lover of Truth, and that I fpeak "and confefs it in Sincerity. And moreover, that I "keep up, as much as I am able, the Honour and "Reputation of my Neighbour."

The 113th Question of the HEIDELBERG

CATECHISM.

Q. WHAT does the tenth Commandment forbid us?

"A. That there never enter into our "Hearts the leaft Defire, or the least Thought, conc6 trary to the Law of God; but that we at all Times abhor Sin from the Bottom of our Hearts, and on "the contrary delight in all Righteousness.'

Q. But to give the fhort Contents of the Ten Commandments, wherein doth our Duty toward God confift? A. To love the Lord with a fupreme Love, purely and abfolutely for himself, Matt. xxii, 37, 38.

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Q. Wherein doth our Duty to our Neighbour confift? A. In loving him as ourselves, according to the Obfervation and Practice of the Golden Rule of Chrift, Matt. vii. 12.

Q. What doth the Love towards God contain?

A. We find it in the four Commandments; in the first, that I must learn to know the true God, to put my Truft in him only, and to worship no other God but him, fer. xvii. 5. In the second, That I must keep pure and entire, all fuch religious Worship and Ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word, without worshiping of him by Images, or any other Way repugnant to the Word of God, Matt. iv. 10. The third commandment requireth the holy and reverend Ufe of God's Name, Titles, Attributes, Ordinances, Word and Works, forbidding (except a lawful Oath, which is an End of all Strife, Heb. vi. 16.) all profaning, or abufing of any Thing, whereby God maketh himself known, with the Reason annexed, that the Lord our God will not fuffer them to escape his righteous Judgment. The fourth Commandment requireth the keeping of the Chriftian Sabbath, or the Lord's Day, which is now after the Refurrection of Chrift, the firft Day of the Week, as a folemn Commemoration of our Redemption by the Refurrection of Chrift, and peculiary defigned for difingaging from the Entanglements of this World, and training Saints for the Reft that remaineth for them in Heaven; and though Chriftians muft walk Every Day with God, yet this Day must be folemn, and kept an entire Day to himfelf, spending the whole Time in publick and private Exercife of God's Worfhip, except fo much as is to be taken up in the Works of Neceffity and Mercy, fer. vii. 21, 22.

Q. What doth the Love of our Neighbour contain? A. That we find in the fix Commandments; the first requireth the preferving the Honour, and performing the Duties belonging to every one in their

feveral

feveral Places, Stations and Relations, fuch as Superiors, Equals or Inferiors, without doing any Thing against the Honour and Duty which belongeth to every one in their several Places and Stations. The fecond requireth, all lawful Endeavours to preserve our own Life, and the Life of others, forbidding to take away our own Life, or the Life of our Neighbour, unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto. The third requireth the Preservation of our own and our Neighbour's Chastity, in Heart, Speech and Behaviour, forbidding all unchaßte Thoughts, Words and Actions. The fourth requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the Wealth and outward Estate of ourselves and others; forbidding whatsoever doth or may unjustly hinder our own or our Neighbour's Wealth or outward Eftate. The fifth requireth the maintaining and promoting of the Truth betwixt Man and Man, and of our Neighbours good Names, especially in bearing Witness, forbidding whatsoever is prejudicial to Truth, or injurious to our own, or our Neighbour's good Name. The fixth (or laft) requireth fuil Contentment with our own Condition, with a right and charitable Frame of Spirit toward our Neighbour, and all that is his. Forbidding all Dif contentment with our Estate, envying or grieving at the Good of our Neighbour, and all inordinate Motions and Affections to any Thing that is his; yea, that it never enter into our Hearts to have the leaft Defire, or the leaft Thought contrary to the Law of God, but that we at all Times abhor Sin from the Bottom of our Hearts, and that we take the greatest Pleasure in doing Juftice and Acts of Mercy.

The 114th Queftion of the HEIDELBERG CATECHISM.

UT can they who are converted to God, perfectly keep thefe Commandments?

"A. Not