What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?

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The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, 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 showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments; are, besides God’s sovereignty over us, and propriety in us, his fervent zeal for his own worship, and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom; accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations; and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.

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  • The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, 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 showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments; (Exodus 20:5–6)
  • are, besides God’s sovereignty over us, and propriety in us, (Psalm 45:11; Revelation 15:3–4)
  • his fervent zeal for his own worship, (Exodus 34:13–14)
  • and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom; (1 Corinthians 10:20–22; Deuteronomy 32:16–20)
  • accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations; (Hosea 2:2–4)
  • and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations. (Deuteronomy 5:29)