hird commandment?
A. The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning and abusing of any thing whereby God makes himself known. (z)
z Mal. 1:6, 7, 12; 2:2; 3:14
Q. 61. What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
A. The reason annexed to the third commandment is, that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment. (a)
a 1 Sam. 2:12, 17, 22, 29; 3:13; Deut. 28:58, 59
Q. 62. Which is the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy: six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. (b)
b Ex. 20:8-11
Q. 63. What is required in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as He hath appointed in His word, expressly, one whole day in seven to be a holy sabbath to Himself. (c)
c Ex. 20:8-11; Deut. 5:12-14
Q. 64. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
A. Before the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath; (d) and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath. (e)
d Ex. 20:8-11; Deut. 5:12-14 e Ps. 118:24; Mt. 28:1; Mk. 2:27, 28; Jn. 20:19, 20, 26; Rev. 1:10; Mk. 16:2; Lk. 24:1, 30-36; Jn. 20:1; Acts 1:3; 2:1, 2; 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2
Q. 65. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, (f) even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; (g) and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship, (h) except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy. (i)
f Ex. 20:8, 10 g Ex. 16:25-28; Neh. 13:15-22 h Lk. 4:16; Acts 20:7; Ps. 92, title; Is. 66:23 i Mt. 12:1-13
Q. 66. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, (j) and the profaning the day by idleness, (k) or doing that which is in itself sinful, (l) or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about worldly employments or recreations. (m)
j Ez. 22:26; Amos 8:5; Mal. 1:13 k Acts 20:7, 9 l Ez. 23:38 m Jer. 17:24-27; Is. 58:13
Q. 67. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
A. The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, are God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own lawful employments, (n) his challenging a special propriety in a seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day. (o)
n Ex. 20:9 o Ex. 20:11
Q. 68. Which is the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment is, Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (p)
p Ex. 20:12
Q. 69. 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, (q) inferiors, (r) or equals. (s)
q Eph. 5:21 r 1 Pet. 2:17 s Rom. 12:10
Q. 70. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglect of, or doing any thing against the honour and duty which belongeth to every one in their several places and relations. (t)
t Mt. 15:4-6; Ez. 34:24; Rom. 13:8
Q. 71. 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. (u)
u Deut. 5:16; Eph. 6:2, 3
Q. 72. Which is the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill