- #AOC121 What doth God enjoin us in the fifth Commandment? That we yeild due honour, love, and faithfulness to our Parents, and so to all who bear Rule over us, and submit our selves with such obedience as is meet to their faithful Commandments and chastiseme...
- #AOC122 What is the sixth Commandment? Thou shalt do no Murder.
- #AOC123 What doth God exact in the sixth Commandment? That neither in thought nor in gesture, much less in deed, I reproach, or hate, or harm, or kill my Neighbour, either by my self, or by another, but cast away all desire of revenge; furthermore, that...
- #AOC124 But this Commandment seems to forbid Murther only? But in forbidding Murther, God doth further teach, that he hateth the Root, to wit, Anger, Envy, Hatred, and Desire of Revenge, and doth account them all for Murther.
- #AOC125 Is it enough then that we kill no Man, in such sort as hath been said? It is not enough; for when God condemneth Anger, Envy, Hatred, he requireth that we love our Neighbour as our selves and that we use Humanity, Lenity, Courtesie, Patience, and Mercy towards him, and t...
- #AOC126 What is the seventh Commandment? Thou shalt not commit Adultery.
- #AOC127 What is the meaning of the seventh Commandment? That God hath in Execration all Turpitude and Filthiness, and therefore we also must utterly hate, and detest it, and contrary-wife, live temperately, modestly, and chastly, whether we live in holy We...
- #AOC128 Forbiddeth God nothing else in this Commandment but actual Adultery, and such kinds of uncleanness? Yea, for seeing both our Body and Soul are the Temples of the Holy Ghost, God will have us to possess both in Purity and Holiness, and therefore Deeds, Gestures, Words, Thoughts, filthy Lusts, and wha...
- #AOC129 What is the eighth Commandment? Thou shalt not steal.
- #AOC130 What doth God forbid in the eighth Commandment? Not only those Thefts and Robberies, which the Magistrate punisheth, but by the name of Theft he comprehendeth whatsoever Evil, Crafts, Fetches, and Devices, whereby we seek after other Mens Goods, an...
- #AOC131 What are those things which God here commandeth? That to my Power, I help and further the Commodities and Profit of my Neighbour, and that I so deal with him as I would desire to be dealt with my self, and that I do my own Work plainly and faithfull...
- #AOC132 What is the ninth Commandment? Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour.
- #AOC133 What doth the ninth Commandment exact? That I bear no false Witness against any Man, neither falsifie any Man’s words, neither backbite nor reproach any Man, nor condemn any rashly, or unheard, but avoid, and shun with all carefulness all...
- #AOC134 What is the tenth Commandment? Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House, nor his Wife, nor his Servant, nor his Maid, nor his Ox, nor his Ass, nor any thing that is his.
- #AOC135 What doth the tenth Commandment forbid? That our Hearts be not at any time moved by the least Desire or Cogitation against any Commandment of God, but that continually and from our Heart we detest all Sin, and contrarily delight in all Righ...
- #AOC136 But can they who are converted to God, perfectly observe, and keep these Commandments? No, but even the holiest Men as long they live, have only small Beginnings of this Obedience, yet so that they begin with an unfeigned and earnest desire and endeavour to live not according to some on...
- #AOC137 Why will God then have his Law to be so exactly and severely preached seeing there is no Man in this life able to keep it? First, That all our life time we more & more acknowledg the great proneness of our Nature to Sin, and so much the more greedily desire remission of Sins, and Righteousness in Christ. Secondly, Th...
- #AOC138 Wherefore is Prayer necessary for Christians? Because it is the chief part of that thankfulness which God requireth of us, and also because God giveth them only his Grace and Holy Spirit, who with unfeigned gronings beg them continually of him an...
- #AOC139 What is required unto that Prayer which shall please God, and be heard of him? That we ask of the only true God, who hath manifested himself in his Word, all things which he hath commanded to be asked of him with a true affection and desire of our Heart, and through an inward fe...
- #AOC140 What are those things which he commandeth us to ask of him? All things necessary both for Soul and Body, which our Lord Jesus Christ hath comprised in that Prayer, which himself hath taught us.
- #AOC141 What Prayer is that? Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this Day our daily Bread: And forgive us our Trespaffes, as we forgive th...
- #AOC142 Are Christians tied to this very Form of Prayer? We are not; our Lord here delivereth to his Church a brief Sum of those things which we are to ask of God, but yet Christ will have us also to descend unto specials, and to ask particular Benefits: fo...
- #AOC143 Why doth Christ teach us to call God our Father? That presently in the very Entrance and Beginning of the Prayer, he might stir up in us such a Reverence, and Confidence of God as is meet for the Sons of God, which must be the ground and foundation...
- #AOC144 Why is that added, which art in Heaven? That we conceive not basely nor terrenely of God’s Heavenly Majesty, and also that we look for, and expect from his Omnipotency whatsoever things are necessary for our Soul and Body.
- #AOC145 What is the first Petition? Hallowed be thy Name; that is, grant us, first to know thee right, and worship, praise, and magnifie thy Almightiness, Goodness, Justice, Mercy and Truth, shining in all thy Works; and further also to...
- #AOC146 What is the second Petition? Thy Kingdom come; that is, rule for us so by thy Word and Spirit, that we may humble and Submit our selves more and more unto thee. Also preserve and increase thy Church, destroy the Works of the Devi...
- #AOC147 What is the third Petition? Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven. That is, grant that we, and all Men, renouncing and forsaking our own Will, may readily, and without any grudging, obey thy Will, which is only holy; and...
- #AOC148 What is the fourth Petition? Give us this Day our daily bread; that is, give unto us all things which are needful for this Life, that by them we may acknowledg and confess thee to be the only Fountain from whence all good things...
- #AOC149 What is the fifth Petition? Forgive us our Trespaffes, as we forgive them that trespass against us. That is, even for the Blood of Christ do not impute unto us most miserable and wretched sinners all our Offences, neither that C...
- #AOC150 What is the sixth Petition? Lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from Evil. That is, because we our selves, are so feeble and weak by Nature, that we cannot stand so much as one Moment or Instant, and our most deadly Enem...
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