to perfuade us to do as in his fight, whatever we do in his fer Q. 107. Which is the fecond commandment? A. The fecond 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 thyfelf to them, nor ferve 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 fhewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments n. Q. 108. What are the duties required in the fecond commandment? A. The duties required in the fecond commandment are, the receiving, obferving, and keeping pure and entire, all fuch religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his wordo: particularly prayer and thankfgiving in the name of Chrift p; the reading, preaching, and hearing abominations, &c. (to the end of the chapter.) Pfal. xliv. 20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or ftretched out our hands to a strange God: v. 21. Shall not God fearch this out? for he knoweth the fecrets of the heart. m 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. And thou, Solomon my fon, know thou the God of thy father, and ferve him with a perfect beart, and with a willing mind for the Lord fearcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou feek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forfake him, he will caft thee off for ever. 107. n Exod. xx. 4, 5, 6. 108. o Deut. xxxii. 46. and be faid unto them, Set your hearts un to all the words which I teflify among you this day; which ye fhall command your children to obferve to do all the words of this law. of 47. For it is not a vain thing for you, because it is your life; and through. this thing ye fhall prolong your days in the land whither ye go over Jordan to poffefs it. Mat. xxviii. 20. Teaching them to obferve all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway evenunto the end of the world. Acts ii. 42. And they continued ftedfaftly in the apofiles doctrine and fellowfhip, and in breaking of bread and in prayers, 1 Tim. vi. 13. I give thee charge in the fight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Chrift Jefus, who before Pontius Pilate witneffed a good confeffion; v. 14. That thou keep this commandment without fpot, unrebuk. able,until the appearing of our Lord Jefus Christ. Phil, iv. 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thanksgiving, let of the word q; the facraments r; the miniftry and the adminiftrations and receiving of church government and difcipline, maintenance thereof t; religious fafting; let your requests be made known unto God. Eph. v. 20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jefus Chrift. q Deut. xvii. 18. And it shall be when he fitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites. v. 19. And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law, and thefe ftatutes to do them. Acts xv. 21. For Mofes of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the fynagogues every fabbath day. 2 Tim, iv. 2. Preach the word, be inftant in feafon, out of feason; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long fuffering and doctrine, James i. 21. Wherefore lay apart all filthinefs, and fuperfluity of naughtinefs, 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 oaly, deceiving your own felves. Acts x. 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. Mat, xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. I Cor. xi. from verfe 23, to verfe 30. For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jefus, the fame night in which he was betrayed, took bread, &c. Mat. xviii. 15. Moreover, if thy brother fhall trefpafs against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he fhall hear thee, thou haft gained thy brother.. v. 16, But if he will not hear thee, then takewith thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witneffes every word may be established. v. 17. And if he shall peglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear. the church, let him be unto thee as · an heathen man and a publican, Mat. xvi. 19. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, fhall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loofe on earth, fhall be loofed in heaven. 1 Cor. v. chapter. 1 Cor. ↑ xii. 28. And God hath fet fome in the church, first apostles, fecondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diverfities of tongues. Eph. iv. 11. And he gave fome apoftles; and fome, prophets; and fome, evangelifts; and fome, paftors and teachers; v, 12. For the perfecting of the faints, for the work of the miniftry, for the edifying of the body of Chrift. 1 Tim. v. 7. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. v. 18. For the fcripture faith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn; and, The ing; fwearing by the name of God w, and vowing unto him as alfo the difapproving, detefting, oppofing all falfet worship y: and according to each one's place and calling, removing it, and all monuments of idolatry x. Q. 109. What are the fins forbidden in the fecond command ment? A. The fins forbidden in the fecond commandment are, are, all devising a, counfelling b, command The labourer is worthy of his reward. 1 Cor. ix. 7. to i5. Who go eth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? &c. Joel ii. 12. Therefore also now faith the Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. v. 13. And rent your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful.-1 Cor. vii. 5. Defraud you not one the other, except it be with confent for a time, that ye may give your felves to fafting and prayer ; Deut, vi, 13. Thou fhalt fear the Lord thy God, and ferve him, and fhalt fwear by his name. * Ifa.xix. 21. And the Lord fhall be known to Egypt, and the Egyp. tians 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. Pfal. Ixxvi. 1. Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God; let all that be round about him bring prefents unto him that ought to be feared. Acts xvii. 16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his fpirit was stirred in him, when he faw all the city wholly given to idolatry. v. 17. Therefore difputed he in the ing, fynagogue with the Jews, and with the devout perfons, and in the mar ket daily with them that met with him. Pfal. xvi. 4. Their forrows fhall be multiplied, that haften after another god: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. z Deut. vii. 5. But thus fhall ye deal with them, ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. Ifa. xxx. 22. Ye fhall defile also the covering of thy graven images of filver, and the ornament of thy malten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menftruous cloth; thou shalt fay unto it, Get thee. hence. 109. a Num, xv. 39. And it shall 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 not after your own heart, and your own eyes, after which ye ufe to go a whoring. b Deut. xiii. 6. If thy brother the fon of thy mother, or thy foo, cr thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofoni, 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 who are round ing c, ufing d, and any wife approving any religious worthip not inftituted by God himfelfe; tolerating a falfe religion; the making any reprefentation of God, of all or any of the three perfons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any round about you, nigh unto thee, er far 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 fhalt thou fpare, neither fhalt thou conceal him. c Hof. v. 11. Ephraim is oppreffed and broken in judgment; because he willingly walked after the commandment. Micah, vi. 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 fhall bear the reproach of my people. di Kings xi. 33. Because that they have forfaken me, and have worshipped Afhtaroth 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 xii. 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 devifed of his own beart, and ordained a feast unto the children of Ifrael, and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. e Deut. xii. 30. Take heed to thyfelf, that thou be not faared by folJowing them, after that they be deftroyed from before thee, and that thou inquire not after their gods, faying, How did thefe nations ferve kind 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 hat eth, have they done unto their gods: for even their fons and their daugh ters 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 diminish from it. f Deut. xiii- from verfe 6. to 12. (See letter b.) Zech. xiii. 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 prophets and the unclean fpirit to pafs out of the land. v. 3. And it shall come to pass, that when any fhall yet prophefy, then his father and his mother that begat him, shall fay unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou fpeakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him, fhall thrust him through when he prophefieth. Rev. ii, 2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them who are evil: and thou hast tried them who fay they are apoftles and are. not; and haft found them liars. v. 14. But I have a few things against thee, becaufe thou haft there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to caft a ftumbling block before the children of Ifrael, to eat things facrificed noto idols, and to commit fornication. 15. So haft thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing kind of image or likeness of any creature whatfoever g all worship of it b, or God in it or by it i; the making of any reprefentation of feigned deities k, and all worship of them, or fervice. belonging to them ; all fuperftitious devi thing I hate. v. 20. Notwithstand ing, I have a few things against thee, because thou fuffereft that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetefs, to teach and to feduce my fervants to commit fornication, and to eat things facrificed unto idols. Rev. xvii.12.And the ten horns which thou faweft are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the bealt.y.16. And the ten horns which thou faweft upon the beast, thefe fhall hate the whore, and fhall make her defolate, and naked, and fball eat her flesh and burn her with fire. v. 17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God fhall be fulfilled. g Deut. iv. 15. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves (for ye faw no manner of fimilitade on the day that the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire.) v. 16. Lest ye corupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the fimilitude of any figure, the likeness' of male or female. v. 17. The likenefs of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that fieth in the air, v, 18. The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters, beneath the earth; *. 19. And left thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou feeft the fun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, fhouldst be driven to worship them, and ferve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all ces, nations under the whole heaven, Ads xvii, 29. Forafmuch then as we are the off-fpring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or filver, or ftope graven by art and man's device. Rom. i. 21. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but became vain in their imaginations, andtheir foolish heart was darkened. v. 22. Profeffing themfelves to be wife, they became fools. v. 23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. v. 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worfhipped and ferved thecreature more than the creator, who is blessed for® ever. Amen. b Dan. iii. 18. But if not, be it, known unto thee, O king, that we will not ferve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou haft fet up. Gal. iv. 8. Howbeit, then when ye knew God, ye did fervice unto them who by nature are no gods.. ¡ Exod. xxxii. 5. And when Aaron faw it, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation and. faid, To morrow is a feast to the Lord, Exod. xxxii. 8. They have turned afide quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made thein a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have facrificed thereunto, and faid, Thefe be thy gods,O Ifrael, who have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 71 Kings xvii. 26. And they took the |