Q. 41. Where is the moral law
summarily comprehended?
A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.(1)
(1) Deut. 10:4.
Q. 42. What is the sum of the ten
commandments?
A. The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all
our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind;
and our neighbour as ourselves.(1)
(1) Matt.
22:37
-40.
Q. 43. What is the preface to the ten
commandments?
A. The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord
thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.(1)
(1) Exod. 20:2.
Q. 44. What doth the preface to the
ten commandments teach us?
A. The preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, That because God is
the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his
commandments.(1)
(1) Luke 1:74-75; I Pet.
1:15
-19.
Q. 45. Which is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before
me.
(1)
(1) Exod. 20:3.
Q. 46. 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;(1) and to worship and glorify him accordingly.(2)
(1) I Chron. 28:9; Deut. 26:17.
(2) Matt. 4:10; Ps. 29:2.
Q. 47. What is forbidden in the first
commandment?
A. The first commandment forbiddeth the denying,(1) or not worshipping and
glorifying the true God as God,(2) and our God;(3) and the giving of that
worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone.(4)
(1) Ps. 14:1.
(2) Rom.
1:21
.
(3) Ps. 81:10-11.
(4)
Rom.
1:25-26.
Q. 48. What are we specially taught by
these words, before me in
the first commandment?
A. These words before me in the first commandment teach us, That
God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the
sin of having any other God.(1)
(1) Ezek. 8:5-18.
Q. 49. Which is the second
commandment?
A. The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image, or any 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 iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of
them that love me, and keep my commandments.(1)
(1) Exod. 20:4-6.
Q. 50. What is required in the second
commandment?
A. The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure
and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in
his word.(1)
(1) Deut. 32:46; Matt. 28:20; Acts.
2:42
.
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