- #AOC91 How ought this Ordinance of the Lords Supper to be closed? In singing Praises to God vocally and audibly for his great Benefits and Blessings to his Church in the shedding of the most precious Blood of his Son to take away their Sin; which Blessings are point...
- #AOC92 You told us but now, that those who in Confession and Life declare themselves to be Infidels, profane and ungodly, should by the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven be driven from this Supper: what are the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven? Preaching of the Gospel and Ecclesiastical Discipline, by which Heaven is opened to the Believers, and is shut against the Unbelievers.
- #AOC93 How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by preaching of the Gospel? When by the Commandment of Christ it is publickly declared to all and every one of the Faithful, that all their Sins are pardoned them of God for the Merit of Christ, so often as they imbrace by a liv...
- #AOC94 How is the Kingdom of Heaven opened and shut by Ecclesiastical Discipline? When according to the Commandments of Christ, they who in Name are Christians, but in their Doctrine and life shew themselves Aliens from Christ, after they have been some time admonished, will not de...
- #AOC95 Whereas we are delivered from all our Sins and Miseries without any Merit of ours, by the Mercy of God, only for Christ’s sake; for what cause are we to do good Works? Because, after that Christ hath redeemed us with his Blood, he reneweth us also by his Spirit to the Image of himself, that we receiving so great Benefits, should shew our selves all our life time tha...
- #AOC96 Cannot they then be saved which be unthankful, and remain still careless in their Sins, and are not converted from their Wickedness to God? By no means; for as the Scripture beareth Witness, neither unchast Persons, nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Thievs, nor Covetous nor Drunkards, nor Slanderers, nor Robbers, shall enter in to the Ki...
- #AOC97 Of what Parts consisteth the Conversion of Man unto God? It consisteth of the mortifying of the old Man, and a quickning of the new Man.
- #AOC98 What is the mortifying of the old Man? To be truly and heartily sorry that thou hast offended God by thy Sins, and daily more and more hate and eschew them.
- #AOC99 What is the quickning of the new Man? True Joy in God through Christ, and an earnest Desire to order thy Life according to God’s Will and to do all good Works.
- #AOC100 What are good Works? Those only which are done by a true Faith, according to God’s Law, and are referred only to his Glory, and not those which are imagined by us as seeming to us to be right and good, or which are delive...
- #AOC101 Which is the Law of God? The Decalogue, or ten Commandments.
- #AOC102 How are these Commandments divided? Into two Tables, whereof the former delivereth in four Commandments, how we ought to behave our selves towards God: the latter delivereth in six Commandments, what duties we owe unto our Neighbours.
- #AOC103 What is the Preface to the ten Commandments? I am JEHOVAH, the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.
- #AOC104 What learn we from this Preface? Three things: first he sheweth to whom the right of all Rule belongs, that is, to God himself. for I am (saith he) JEHOVAH. Secondly, he saith, he is the God of his People, that through the Promise of...
- #AOC105 Do these things belong unto us? They do so, because they do figuratively comprehend and imply all the Deliverances of the Church; and further, also this was a Type of our wonderful Deliverance atcheived by Christ.
- #AOC106 What is the first Commandment? Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
- #AOC107 What doth God require in the first Commandment? That as dearly as I tender the Salvation of my own Soul, so earnestly should I shun and sly all Idolatry, Sorcery, Inchantments, Superstition, praying to Saints, or any other Creatures, and should rig...
- #AOC108 What is Idolatry? It is in Place of that one God, or besides that one true God who hath manifested himself in his Word and Works, to make or imagin, and account any other thing wherein thou reposest thy Hope and Confid...
- #AOC109 What is the second Commandment? Thou shalt make to thee no graven Image, nor the Likeness of any thing which is in Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, nor in the Waters under the Earth: thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worshi...
- #AOC110 What doth this second Commandment require? That we should not express or represent God by any Image or shape and figure, or worship him any otherwise then he hath commanded himself in his Word to be worshipped.
- #AOC111 May there then at all any Images or Resemblances of things be made? God neither ought, nor can be represented by any means: and for the Creatures, although it be lawful to express them, yet God forbiddeth notwithstanding their Images to be made or had, as thereby to w...
- #AOC112 But may not Images be tolerated in Churches, which may serve for Books unto the common People? No, for ’tis not seemly that we should be wiser then God, who will have his Church to be taught by the lively preaching of his Word, and not with dumb Images.
- #AOC113 What is the third Commandment? Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain.
- #AOC114 What doth God decree in the third Commandment? That not only by cursing or forswearing, but also by rash swearing we should not use his Name despitefully, or unreverently, neither should by silence nor connivance be Partakers of these horrible Sin...
- #AOC115 Is it then so grievous a Sin by swearing, or banning, to take the Name of God in vain, as that God is also angry with them who in as much as in them lieth do not forbid or hinder it? Surely most grievous: for neither is there any Sin greater, or more offending God, than the despiting of his sacred Name; wherefore also he would have this Sin to be punished with Death.
- #AOC116 May a Man swear religiously and lawfully, by the Name of God? He may when as either the lawful Magistrate exacteth it, or otherwise necessity requireth it: by this means the Faith and Truth of any Man, or thing to be ratified and established, whereby both the Gl...
- #AOC117 Is it lawful to swear by Saints, or other Creatures? No, for a lawful Oath is an Invocation of God, whereby we desire that he, as the only searcher of Hearts, bear Witness unto the Truth, and will punish the Swearer if he wittingly swear falsely: but th...
- #AOC118 What is the fourth Commandment? Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath Day: six Days shalt thou labor, and do all that thou hast to do, but the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt do no manner of Work,...
- #AOC119 What are we taught by the fourth Commandment? That one Day in seven be kept in the Worship of God, which under the old Testament was the last Day of the Week, but under the Gospel changed to the first Day of the Week, and this Lord’s Day to be sp...
- #AOC120 What is the fifth Commandment? Honour thy Father and Mother, that thy dayes may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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