bold and curious searchings into his secrets; (1) all profaneness, (2) hatred of God, (3) self-love, (4) self-seeking, (5) and all other inordinate and immoderate setting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part; (6) vain credulity, (7) unbelief, (8) heresy, (9) misbelief, (10) distrust, (11) de

(1) Deut. xxix. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

(2) Tit. i. 16. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Heb. xii. 16.

(3) Rom. i. 30. ful, proud, boasters. (4) 2 Tim. iii. 2. For men shall be lovers of their ownselves, covetous, &c.

Backbiters, haters of God, despite

(5) Phil. ii. 21. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

(6) 1 John ii. 15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 Sam. ii. 29.And honourest thy sons above me. Col. iii. 2, 5. (7) 1 John iv. 1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

(8) Heb. iii. 12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

(9) Gal. v. 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. Tit. iii. 10.

(10) Acts xxvi. 9. I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

(11) Ps. lxxviii. 22. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

spair; (1) incorrigibleness, (2) and insensibleness under judgments, (3) hardness of heart, (4) pride, (5) presumption, (6) carnal security, (7) tempting of God: (8) using unlawful means, (9) and trusting in lawful means; (10) carnal delights and joys; (11) corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal; (12) luke

(1) Gen. iv. 13. And Cain said,-My punishment is greater than I can bear.

(2) Jer. v. 3.-Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

(3) Isa. xlii. 25.-Yet he knew not;—yet he laid it not to heart.

(4) Rom. ii. 5. But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

(5) Jer. xiii. 15. Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken.

(6) Ps. xix. 13. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;-then shall I be-innocent from the great transgression.

(7) Zeph. i. 12.-And punish the men that are settled on their lees; that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.

(8) Matt. iv. 7.-Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

(9) Rom. iii. 8. And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come?

(10) Jer. xvii. 5. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

(11) 2 Tim. iii. 4. Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

(12) Gal. iv. 17.

well. ́ ́ Rom. x. 2.

They zealously affect you, but not For I bear them record, that they

warmness, (1) and deadness in the things of God; (2) estranging ourselves, and apostatizing from God; (3) praying, or giving any religious worship to saints, angels, or any other creatures; (4) all compacts and consulting with the devil, (5) and hearkening to his suggestions; (6) making men the lords of our faith and conscience; (7) slighting and despising God, and

have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. John xvi. 2. Luke ix. 54, 55.

(1) Rev. iii. 16. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

(2) Rev. iii. 1.-I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

(3) Ezek. xiv. 5.-Because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Isa. i. 4, 5.-They have forsaken the Lord, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more.

(4) Hos. iv. 12. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them. Rev. xix. 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not; I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God. Col. ii. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. Rom. i. 25.

(5) Lev. xx. 6. And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 1 Sam. xxviii. 7, 11. Compared with 1 Chron. x. 13, 14.

(6) Acts v. 3. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

(7) 2 Cor. i. 24. Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. Matt. xxiii. 9.

his commands; (1) resisting and grieving of his Spirit, (2) discontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us; (3) and ascribing the praise of any good, we either are, have, or can do, to fortune, (4) idols, (5) ourselves, (6) or any other creature. (7)

Q. 106. What are we especially taught by these words (before me) in the first command ment?

A. These words (before me) or before my face, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh special notice

(1) Deut. xxxii. 15.-Then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Prov. xiii. 13. Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. 2 Sam. xii. 9.

(2) Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. Eph. iv. 30. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.

(3) Ps. lxxiii. 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 22. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked, &c.

(4) 1 Sam. vi. 9. But if not, when we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

(5) Dan. v. 23.-And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

(6) Deut. viii. 17. And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. Dan. iv. 30.

(7) Hab. i. 16. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag.

of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other god: that so it may be an argument to dissuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocation; (1) as also to persuade us to do as in his sight, whatever we do in his service. (2)

Q. 107. Which is the second commandment?

A. The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; 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. (3)

Q. 108. What are the duties required in the second commandment?

(1) Ps. xliv. 20, 21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god: Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Ezek. viii. 5 to the end of the chapter.And, behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.-But turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations, &c.

(2) 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind; for the Lord searchetn all hearts, and understandeth all the imagina'ions of the thoughts.

(3) Ex. xx. 4, 5, 6.