XIV. What are the duties more especially contained under this Fourth Commandment?

1. To rest from our ordinary occupations, as God
rested from the work of creation on the seventh
day. Gen. ii. 2.

2. To rise, by prayer and holy meditation, from the
things of earth, as Christ rose from the dead,
on the first day of the week. Luke xxiv. 1.
3. To be "all with one accord in one place," that
we may receive the gifts of the Spirit on the
Lord's day. Acts ii. 1.

4. To perform acts of mercy and charity (Matt. xii.
7); and especially to make an offering for the
poor on this day, according to the ordinance of
the Apostles; the same who had authority to
change the Sabbath-day from the last to "the
first day of the week." See Cor. xvi. 1, 2; and
the Offertory in the Communion Service.

5. To regard this day as a type of the everlasting Sabbath that remaineth for the people of God. See Heb. iv. 9. 11.

CHAPTER VII.

OF OBEYING-DUTY TOWARDS MAN.

I. WHAT do you chiefly learn by the latter division (i. e. the six last) of the Ten Commandments?

II. In what respect does this division of our duty, which succeeds in order, precede in practice?

See 1 John iv. 20, 21. ibid. 12.

III. What are the two golden rules in which the Bible sums up this division of our duty?

1. To love every man, neighbour or stranger, as my-
self. Lev. xix. 18. 34. Matt. xxii. 39. Rom.
xiii. 8, 9. Gal. v. 14. James ii. 8.

2. To do unto all men as I would they should do
unto me.
Matt. vii. 12.

IV. What is the Fifth Commandment, as delivered in the Law, and fulfilled in the Gospel?

"To honour all men" with all humility (1 Pet. ii. 17); especially my Parents, and all to whom I am bound to look up in a domestic, political, or spiritual relation. See Matt. xviii. 4.

V. What are the duties more especially contained under this Fifth Commandment?

1. To "love, honour, and succour" my natural Parents. Matt. xv. 4. Eph. vi. 2, 3. 1 Tim. v. 4. Col. iii. 20.-Example of Christ. Luke ii. 51.

2. To honour and obey the Queen, as my political Parent, and all that are put in authority under her. I Pet. ii. 13, 14. 17. Rom, xiii, 1—7. Tit. iii. 1.

3. To submit myself to the Church, as my spiritual Parent, observing her orders for public prayer, for the keeping of fasts and festivals, &c., and all other her rites and ordinances-and, under her, to all my governors, teachers, spiritual pastors, and masters. 1 Pet. ii. 13. Heb. xiii. 17. 1 Thess. v. 12, 13. Luke x. 16. 2 Thess. iii. 6.—See Tables and Rules for the Feasts and Fasts through the whole year, prefixed to Prayer-Book, Rubric

2nd after the Nicene Creed, and Canons of the Church of England, LXXVII.-LXXIX. 4. To "render to all their due" share of honour, as unto fellow-members of one body in Christ. Rom. xiii. 7.—the aged. Levit. xix. 32.

VI. What is the Sixth Commandment, as delivered in the Law, and fulfilled in the Gospel?

To live in perfect charity (aɣán) with all men.

VII. What are the duties more especially contained under this Sixth Commandment?

1. To do no murder, or any acts akin to it-as of violence, cruelty, striking another, &c. Luke iii. 14.

2. To abstain from all passion and feelings that tend towards murder, and are in kind murderous, as anger (ein), hatred, malice, revenge, &c. Matt. v. 22. 1 John iii. 15. Eph. iv. 26. 31. Rom. xii. 17. 19. Col. iii. 8.

3. To abstain from all hurtful and abusive language, which in kind is murderous of the good name of others-as calling bad names, insult, ridicule, &c. Matt. v. 22. Eph. iv. 31.

4. "To follow peace with all men." Heb. xii. 14.

Rom. xii. 18.-" Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another." Col. iii. 12, 13. See also 15.

5. To love all Christians as brethren in the Lord, even my enemies and persecutors. John xiii. 34. xv. 12. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Matt. v. 44. 1 Cor. xiii. passim.

6. To pray for all men, even for my enemies and persecutors. 1 Tim. ii. 1. Matt. v. 44.

VIII. What is the Seventh Commandment, as delivered in the Law, and fulfilled in the Gospel? To follow after perfect purity.

IX. What are the duties more especially contained under this Seventh Commandment?

1. Not to commit adultery, or any act akin to it, as

fornication, self-pollution, &c. 1 Thess. iv. 2. 5. Eph. v. 3-7. Col. iii. 5, 6. 1 Cor. vi. 9--18. Rev. xxi. 8. Rom. i. passim.

2. To abstain from all thoughts, desires, words, gestures, sights, books, &c., that tend towards adultery, and are in their kind adulterous. Matt. v. 28. Eph. v. 4. Rom. vi. 12-23.

3. To abstain from all intemperance and excess in
eating and drinking, as in kind allied to adultery,
and tending towards it. Rom. xiii. 13. 1 Pet.
iv. 3.

4. To cut off my hand, or pull out my eye, rather
than allow it to offend, by breaking this Command-
ment. Matt. v. 27–30. Comp. ch. III. v111. 2,
5. To keep my body chaste for the Lord, and as
being the temple of the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. vi.
13. ibid. 19. iii. 16.

6. To keep my heart pure, in hope of the promised
blessing, "to see God." Matt. v. 8. 2 Cor. vii. 1.

X. What is the Eighth Commandment, as delivered in the Law, and fulfilled in the Gospel?

To be perfectly honest, just (díkalos), and bountiful.

XI. What are the duties more especially contained under this Eighth Commandment?

1. Not to steal, or defraud another. Eph. iv. 28. Mark x. 19. 1 Cor. vi. 10.

2. To abstain from all acts and practices that are

akin to stealing-as all kinds of dishonest dealing, running into debt, &c. Lev. xix. 13. 35, 36. xxv. 14. 2 Cor. iv. 2.

3. To abstain from all habits and inclinations that tend to stealing, or other dishonesty-as idleness, waste of time, unprofitableness in my calling, undue dependence upon others, &c. Matt. xxv. 9. 4. To learn and labour to maintain myself creditably in that station of life in which God has placed me. 1 Thess. iv. 11. 2 Thess. iii. 8-13. 5. "To be ready to distribute, willing to communicate." Levit. xix. 9, 10. 1 Tim. vi. 18, 19. Eph. iv. 28. Gal. vi. 10. Matt. xxv. 31-46.Duty, motive, measure, and reward of Almsgiving. 1 John iii. 15-18. Heb. xiii. 16. 2 Cor. viii. 12. ix. passim. See ch. IX. XVIII. 1. XII. What is the Ninth Commandment, as delivered in the Law, and fulfilled in the Gospel?

To keep my tongue with all diligence. Matt. xii. 36.

XIII. What are the duties more especially contained under this Ninth Commandment?

1. Not to witness, or speak evil of another, falsely. 2. To abstain from all speaking evil of others, which

tends to false witness-as slander, backbiting, &c. Levit. xix. 16. 1 Pet. ii. 1. Tit. iii. 2. Eph. iv. 31. Ps. ci. 5.

3. To abstain from all falsehood. Levit. xix. 11.
Eph. iv. 25. Col. iii. 9. 1 Pet. xiii. 10. Rev.
xxi. 8.

4. To speak the truth boldly at whatever risk.
5. To speak charitably of all men. 1 Cor. xiii. 6, 7.
6. To govern my tongue. James i. 26. iii. passim,