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Q. 64. What is required in the fifth commandment?

A. The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors", inferiors*, or equals .

Q. 65. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?

A. The fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing any thing against, the honour and duty which belongeth to every one in their several places and relations2. Q. 66. 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 ".

Q. 67. Which is the sixth commandment?

4. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.

64. w Eph. v. 21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

x 1 Pet. ii. 17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

y Rom. xii. 10. Be kindly-affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another.

65. 2 Mat. xv. 4. For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. Ver. 5. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, Ver. 6. And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ezek. xxxiv. 2. Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds, Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed them

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Q. 68. What

the flocks? Ver. 3. Ye eat the fat,
and ye clothe with the wool; ye
kill them that are fed; but ye feed
not the flock. Ver. 4. The diseased
have ye not strengthened, neither
have ye
healed that which was sick,
neither have ye bound up that which
was broken, neither have ye brought
again that which was driven away,
neither have ye sought that which was
lost; but with force and with cruelty
have ye ruled them. Rom. xiii. 8.
Owe no man any thing, but to love
one another: for he that loveth ano-
ther hath fulfilled the law.

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66. Deut. v. 16. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. "Eph. vi. 2. Honour thy father and mother, (which is the first commandment with promise ;) Ver. 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

67. b Exod. xx. 13.

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Q. 68. What is required in the sixth commandment?

A. The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life, and the life of others d.

Q. 69. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?

A. The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto.

Q. 70. Which is the seventh commandment?

A. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Q. 71. What is required in the seventh commandment? A. The seventh 'commandment requireth the preservation of our own and our neighbour's chastity, in heart, speech, and behaviour 8.

Q. 72. What

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68. Eph. v. 28. So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife loveth himself. Ver. 29. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.

d 1 Kings xviii. 4. For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.

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the wife unto the husband. Ver. 5.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. Ver. 34. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. Ver. 36. But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not; let them marry. Col. iv. 6. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. 1 Pet. iii. 2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

72. h Mat.

Q. 72. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment? A. The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions".

Q. 73. Which is the eighth commandment?

A. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal'. Q. 74. What is required in the eighth commandment? A. The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth and outward estate of ourselves and others *.

72. h Mat. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Mat. v. 28. But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Eph. v. 3. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints: Ver. 4. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks.

73. i Exod. xx. 15.

74. k Gen. xxx. 30. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? 1 Tim. v. 8. But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Lev. xxv. 35. And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee, then thou shalt relieve him; yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Deut. xxii. 1. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in

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any case bring them again unto thy brother. Ver. 2. And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. Ver. 3. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost things of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. Ver. 4. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. Ver. 5. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Exod. xxiii. 4. If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. Ver. 5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. Gen. xlvii. 14. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought and Jo

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Q. 75. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment? A. The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth or may unjustly hinder our own or our neighbour's wealth or outward estate1.

Q. 76. Which is the ninth commandment ?

A. The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ".

Q. 77. What is required in the ninth commandment?

Ă. The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man", and of our own and our neighbour's good name, especially in witnessbearing ".

Q. 78. What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?

A. The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own or our neighbour's good name ".

Q. 79. Which 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

seph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. Ver. 20. And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

75. 1 Prov. xxi. 17. He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. Prov. xxiii. 20. Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh. Ver. 21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxviii. 19. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough. Eph. iv. 28. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with

his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

76. m Exod. xx. 16.

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77. Zech. viii. 16. These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

03 John, Ver. 12. Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself; yea, and we also bear record, and ye know that our record is true.

P Prov, xiv. 5. A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. Ver. 25. A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

78.91 Sam. xvii. 28. And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's

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his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's'.

Q. 80. What is required in the tenth commandment ?

A. The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition', with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbour, and all that is his '.

Q. 81. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?

A. The tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate ", envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour", and all inordinate motions and affections to any thing that is his *.

anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle. Lev. xix. 16. Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord. Psal. xv. 3. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

79. Exod. xx. 17.

80. Heb. xiii. 5. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 1 Tim. vi. 6. But godliness with contentment is great gain.

t Job xxxi. 29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him. Rom. xii. 15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 1 Tim. i. 5. Now the end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. 1 Cor. xiii. 4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind;

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charity envieth not; charity vaunt eth not itself, is not puffed up, Ver. 5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Ver. 6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoi ceth in the truth; Ver. 7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopetk all things, endureth all things.

81. 1 Kings xxi. 4. And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased, because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers; and he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. Esther v. 13. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 1 Cor. x. 10. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Gal. v. 26. Let us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. James iii. 14. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work.

* Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.

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