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 50  Q  What is required in the fourth commandment?

     A  The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such
        set times as he has appointed in his Word, expressly one
        whole day in seven, to be a holy Sabbath to himself.

        # Le 19:30 De 5:12
05951
 51  Q  How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?

     A  The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that
        day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as
        are lawful on other days,

        # Le 23:3

        and spending the whole time in the public and private
        exercises of God's worship,

        # Ps 92:1,2 Isa 58:13,14

        except so much as is taken up in the works of necessity and
        mercy.

        # Mt 12:11,12
05952
 52  Q  Which is the fifth commandment?

     A  The fifth commandment is, "Honour thy father and thy mother:
        that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy
        God giveth thee."
05953
 53  Q  What is required in the fifth commandment?

     A  The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and
        performing the duties belonging to every one in their various
        positions and relationships as superiors,

        # Eph 5:21,22 6:1,5 Ro 13:1

        inferiors,

        # Eph 6:9

        or equals.

        # Ro 12:10
05954
 54  Q  What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?

     A  The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of
        long life and prosperity -- as far as it shall serve for
        God's glory, and their own good -- to all such as keep this
        commandment.

        # Eph 6:2,3
05955
 55  Q  Which is the sixth commandment?

     A  The sixth commandment is, "Thou shalt not kill."
05956
 56  Q  What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?

     A  The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life,

        # Ac 16:28

        or the life of our neighbour unjustly,

        # Ge 9:6

        or whatever tends to it.

        # Pr 24:11,12
05957
 57  Q  Which is the seventh commandment?

     A  The seventh commandment is, "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
05958
 58  Q  What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

     A  The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts,

        # Mt 5:28 Col 4:6

        words,

        # Eph 5:4 2Ti 2:22

        and actions.

        # Eph 5:3
05959
 59  Q  Which is the eighth commandment?

     A  The eighth commandment is, "Thou shalt not steal."
05960
 60  Q  What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?

     A  The eighth commandment forbids whatever does or may unjustly
        hinder our own,

        # 1Ti 5:8 Pr 28:19 21:6

        or our neighbour's wealth, or outward estate.

        # Eph 4:28
05961
 61  Q  Which is the ninth commandment?

     A  The ninth commandment is, "Thou shalt not bear false witness
        against thy neighbour."
05962
 62  Q  What is required in the ninth commandment?

     A  The ninth commandment requires the maintaining and promoting
        of truth between man and man,

        # Zec 8:16

        and of our own,

        # 1Pe 3:16 Ac 25:10

        and our neighbour's good name,

        # 3Jo 1:12

        especially in witness-bearing.

        # Pr 14:5,25
05963
 63  Q  What is the tenth commandment?

     A  The tenth commandment is, "Thou shalt not covet thy
        neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife,
        nor his manservant, or his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
        ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's."
05964
 64  Q  What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?

     A  The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own
        estate,

        # 1Co 10:10

        envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour,

        # Ga 5:26

        and all inordinate emotions and affections to anything that
        is his.

        # Col 3:5
05965
 65  Q  Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?

     A  No mere man, since the fall, is able in his life perfectly to
        keep the commandments of God,

        # Ec 7:20

        but does daily break them in thought,

        # Ge 8:21

        word,

        # Jas 3:8

        and deed.

        # Jas 3:2
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 66  Q  Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?

     A  Some sins in themselves, and by reason of various aggravations,
        are more heinous in the sight of God than others.

        # Joh 19:11 1Jo 5:15
05967
 67  Q  What does every sin deserve?

     A  Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life
        and that which is to come.

        # Eph 5:6 Ps 11:6
05968
 68  Q  How may we escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?

     A  To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, we
        must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,

        # Joh 3:16

        trusting alone to his blood and righteousness. This faith is
        attended by repentance for the past

        # Ac 20:21

        and leads to holiness in the future.
05969
 69  Q  What is faith in Jesus Christ?

     A  Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace,

        # Heb 10:39

        whereby we receive,

        # Joh 1:12

        and rest upon him alone for salvation,

        # Php 3:9

        as he is set forth in the gospel.

        # Isa 33:22
05970
 70  Q  What is repentance to life?

     A  Repentance to life is a saving grace,

        # Ac 11:18

        whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sins,

        # Ac 2:37

        and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ,

        # Joe 2:13

        does with grief and hatred of his sin turn from it to God,

        # Jer 31:18,19

        with full purpose to strive after new obedience.

        # Ps 119:59
05971
 71  Q  What are the outward means whereby the Holy Spirit
        communicates to us the benefits of redemption?

     A  The outward and ordinary means whereby the Holy Spirit
        communicates to us the benefits of Christ's redemption, are
        the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life;
        Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all
        which believers are further edified in their most holy faith.

        # Ac 2:41,42 Jas 1:18
05972
 72  Q  How is the Word made effectual to salvation?

     A  The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the
        preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convicting and
        converting sinners,

        # Ps 19:7

        and of building them up in holiness and comfort,

        # 1Th 1:6

        through faith to salvation.

        # Ro 1:16
05973
 73  Q  How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become
        effectual to salvation?

     A  That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must
        attend to it with diligence,

        # Pr 8:34

        preparation,

        # 1Pe 2:1,2

        and prayer,

        # Ps 119:18

        receive it with faith,

        # Heb 4:2

        and love,

        # 2Th 2:10

        lay it up into our hearts,

        # Ps 119:11

        and practise it in our lives.

        # Jas 1:25
05974
 74  Q  How do Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually
        helpful?

     A  Baptism and the Lord's Supper become spiritually helpful, not
        from any virtue in them, or in him who does administer them,

        # 1Co 3:7 1Pe 3:21

        but only by the blessing of Christ,

        # 1Co 3:6

        and the working of the Spirit in those who by faith receive them.

        # 1Co 12:13
05975
 75  Q  What is Baptism?

     A  Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by
        Jesus Christ,

        # Mt 28:19

        to be to the person baptised a sign of his fellowship with
        him, in his death, and burial, and resurrection,

        # Ro 6:3 Col 2:12

        of his being ingrafted into him,

        # Ga 3:27

        of remission of sins,

        # Mr 1:4 Ac 22:16

        and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to
        live and walk in newness of life.

        # Ro 6:4,5
05976
 76  Q  To whom is Baptism to be administered?

     A  Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually
        profess repentance towards God,

        # Ac 2:38 Mt 3:6 Mr 16:16 Ac 8:12,36,37 10:47,48

        and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other.
05977
 77  Q  Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptised?

     A  The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be
        baptised, because there is neither command nor example in the
        Holy Scriptures for their baptism.

        # Ex 23:13 Pr 30:6
05978
 78  Q  How is baptism rightly administered?

     A  Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the
        whole body of the person in water,

        # Mt 3:16 Joh 3:23

        in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
        Spirit, according to Christ's institution, and the practice
        of the apostles,

        # Mt 28:19,20

        and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some
        part of the body, after the tradition of men.

        # Joh 4:1,2 Ac 8:38,39
05979
 79  Q  What is the duty of such as are rightly baptized?

     A  It is the duty of such as are rightly baptized, to give up
        themselves to some particular and orderly Church of Jesus Christ,

        # Ac 2:47 Ac 9:26 1Pe 2:5

        that they may walk in all the commandments and ordinances of
        the Lord blameless.

        # Lu 1:6
05980
 80  Q  What is the Lord's Supper?

     A  The Lord's Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament,
        instituted by Jesus Christ; wherein, by giving and receiving
        bread and wine, according to his appointment, his death is
        shown forth,

        # 1Co 11:23-26

        and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporeal and
        carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and
        blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment,
        and growth in grace.

        # 1Co 10:16
05981
 81  Q  What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?

     A  It is required of them who would worthily partake of the
        Lord's Supper, that they examine themselves of their
        knowledge to discern the Lord's body,

        # 1Co 11:28,29

        of their faith to feed upon him,

        # 2Co 13:5

        of their repentance,

        # 1Co 11:31

        love,

        # 1Co 11:18-20

        and new obedience,

        # 1Co 5:8

        lest coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

        # 1Co 11:27-29
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 82  Q  What is meant by the words, "until he come," which are used
        by the apostle Paul in reference to the Lord's Supper?

     A  They plainly teach us that our Lord Jesus Christ will come a
        second time; which is the joy and hope of all believers.

        # Ac 1:11 1Th 4:16
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