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ingy, defiringz, fearing of hima; believing himb; trusting c, hoping d, delighting e, rejoicing in himf; being zealous for himg; calling upon him; giving all praise and thanks h, and yielding all obedience and fubmiffion to him with the whole mani; being careful in all things to please himk, and forrowful when in any thing he is offended/; and walking humbly with himm.

Q.105. What are the fins forbidden in the first commandment?

And they faid, We are witneffes. Deut. vi. 5. And thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy might.

z Pfal. Ixxiii. 25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I defire besides thee.

Ifa. viii. 13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Exod. xiv. 31. And Ifrael faw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his fervant Mofes.

Ifa. xxvi. 4. Truft ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

d Pfal. cxxx. 7. Let Ifraèl hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

e Pfal. xxxvii. 5. Delight thyfelf alfo in the Lord, and he fhall give thee the defires of thine heart.

ƒ Pfal. xxxii. 11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice ye righteous: and fhout for joy all ye that are upright in heart.

Rom. xii. 11. Not flothful in bufinefs; fervent in spirit; ferving the Lord. Compared with Num. IXV. 11. Phineas the fon of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron the priest, hath

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turned my wrath away from the children of Ifrael (while he was zealous for my fake among them) that I confumed not the children of Ifrael in my jealousy.

b Phil. iv. 6. Be careful for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.

i Jer. vii. 23. But this thing commanded I them, faying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye fhall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. Jam. iv. 7. Submit yourfelves therefore to God; refift the devil, and he will flee from you.

k 1 John iii. 22. And whatsoever we afk, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do thofe things that are pleafing in his fight.

Jer. xxxi. 18. I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou haft chastised me, and I was chaflifed, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I fhall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God, Pfal. cxix. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes: because they keep not thy law.

m Mic. vi. 8. He hath fhewed thee, Oman, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do

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A. The fins forbidden in the first commandment are, atheism in denying, or not having a God n; idolatry, in having or worshipping more gods than One, or any with or instead of the true Godo; the not having and avouching him for God, and our Godp; the omiflion or ́neglect of any thing due to him, required in this commandment q; ignorancer, forgetfulness, mifapprehenfions t, falfe opini

justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

105. Pfal. xiv. 1. The fool hath faid in his heart, there is no God: they are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doth good. Eph. ii. 12. That at that time ye were without Chrift, being aliens from the common-wealth of Ifrael, and ftrangers from the covenants of promife, having no hope, and without God in the world.

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Jer. ii. 27. Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou haft brought me forth: for they have turned their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will fay, Arife, and fave us. v. 28. But where are thy gods that thou haft made thee? let them arife if they can fave thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah. Compared with 1 Theff. i. 9. For they themselves fhew of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye returned to God from idols, to ferve the living and true God.

Pfal. lxxxi. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice: and Ifrael would none of me.

9 Ifa. xliii. 22. But thou haft not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou haft been weary of me, O Ifrael. v. 23. Thou haft not brought me the fmall cattle of thy burnt-offerings, neither haft thou honoured me with

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thy facrifices. I have not caused thee to ferve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense: v. 24. Thou halt bought me no fweet cane with money, neither haft thou filled me with the fat of thy facrifices: but thou haft made me to ferve with thy fins, thou haft wearied me with thine iniquities."

r Jer. iv. 22, For my people is foolish, they have not known me, they are fottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wife to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Holea iv. 1. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Ifrael; for the Lord hath a controverfy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. v. 6. My people are deftroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou haft rejected knowledge, I alfo will reject thee, that thou fhalt be no prieft to me: feeing thou haft forgotten the law of thy God, I will alfo forget thy children.

Jer. ii. 32. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Acts xvii. 23. For as I paffed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this infcription, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. v. 29. For as much then as we are the offspring of God,

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ous v, unworthy and wicked thoughts of him w; bold and curious fearching into his fecrets x; all profanenessy, hatred of Godz; felf-love a, felf seekingb, and all other inordinate and immoderate fetting of our mind, will or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in parte; vain credulity d, unbeliefe, herefyf, misbeliefg, dif

we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or filver, or ftone graven by art and man's de

vice.

Ifa. xl. 18. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?,

Pfal. 1. 21. These things haft thou done, and I kept filence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether fuch an one as thyfelf: but I will reprove thee, and fet them in order before thine eyes.

x Deut. xxix. 29. The fecret things belong unto the Lord our God: but thofe things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Tit. i. 16. They profefs that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and difobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Heb. xii. 16. Left there be any fornicator, or profane perfon, as Efau, who for one morfel of meat fold his birth-right.

z Rom. i. 30. Backbiters, haters of God,defpiteful, proud, boafers,

2 Tim. iii. 2. For men fhall be lovers of their own felves, covetous, boafters, proud, blafphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.

b Phil. ii. 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are Jefus Chrift's.

e 1 John ii. 15. Love not the world, neither the things that age

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in the world, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. v. 16. For all that is in the world, the luft of the flesh, and the luft of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 Sam. ii. 29. Wherefore kick ye at my facrifice, and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation, and honoureft thy fons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefeft of all the offerings of Ifrael my people? Col. iii. 2.. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. v. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleannefs, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetoufnefs, which is idolatry.

d1 John iv. 1. Beloved, believo not every fpirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many falfe prophets are gone out into the world.

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e Heb. iii. 12. Take heed, brethren, left there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

ƒGal. v. 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ftrife, feditions, heresies. Tit.iii. 10. A man that is an heretic, after the first and fecond admonition, reject.

g Acts xxvi. 9. I verily thought with myfelf, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jefus of Nazareth.

truft h, defpairi; incorrigiblenessk, and infenfibleness under judgments, hardness of heart m, priden, prefumptione, carnal fecurity, tempting of Godq; ufing unlawful means r, and trusting in lawful means; carnal delights and joyst; corrupt, blind, and indifcreet zealo; lukewarmness w, and dead

Pfal. vii. 7. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his falvation.

i Gen. iv. 13. And Cain faid unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear,

k Jer. v. 3. O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou haft ftricken them, but they have not grieved; thou haft confumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refused to re

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1 Ifa. xlii. 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the ftrength of battle; and it hath fet him on fire round about, yet he knew not: and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

m Rom. ii. 5. But after thy hardnefs and impenitent heart, treafureft up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Jer. xiii. 15. Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud; for the Lord hath fpoken.

• Pfal. xix. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, let them not have dominion over me: then fhall I be upright, and fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreflion.

p Zeph. i. 12. And it shall come to pafs at that time, that I will fearch Jerufalem with candles, and punish the men that are fettled on their lees, that fay in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will

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Mat. iv. 7. Jefus faith unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Rom. iii. 8. And not rather, as we be flanderously reported, and as fome affirm that we fay, Let us do evil, that good may come? whofe damnation is just.

Jer. xvii. 5.Thus faith the Lord, Curfed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whofe heart departeth from the Lord.

12 Tim. iii. 4. Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

v Gal. iv. 17. They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. John xvi. 2. They fhall put you out of the fynagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whofoever killeth you, will think that he doth God fervice. Rom. x. 2. For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Luke ix. 54. And when his difciples James and John faw this, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that wẹ command fire to come down from heaven, and confume them, even as Elias did? v. 55. But he turned, and rebuked them, and faid, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

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

deadness in the things of God x; eftranging ourselves, and apoftatizing from Gody; praying, or giving any religious worship, to faints, angels, or any other creatures z; all compacts and confulting with the devil a, and hearkening to his fug

Rev. iii. 1. And unto the angel of the church in Sardis, write, These things faith he that hath the seven spirits of God, and the feven ftars; I know thy works, that thou hall a name that thou liveft, and art dead.

y Ezek. xiv. 5. That I may take the houfe of Ifrael in their own heart, because they are all eftranged from me through their idols. Ifa. i. 4. Ah finful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a feed of evil doers, children that are corrupters, they have forfaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of Ifrael unto anger, they are gone away backward. v. 5. Why should ye be ftricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is fick, and the whole heart faint.

z Rom. x. 13. For whofoever fhall call upon the name of the Lord, fhall be faved. v. 14. How then fhall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how fhall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how fhall they hear without a preacher? Hof. iv. 12. My people afk counfel at their ftocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. Acts x. 25. And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. v. 26. But Peter took him up, faying, stand up; I myself alfo am a man. Rev. xix. 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him: and he faid unto me, See thou do it

not: I am thy fellow-fervant, and of thy brethren that have the teftimony of Jefus; worship God: for the teftimony of Jefus is the fpirit of prophecy. Mat. iv. 10. Then faid Jefus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve. Col. ii. 18. Let no man beguile you of your re. ward, in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels, intruding into thofe things which he hath not feen, vainly puft up by his fleshly mind. Rom. i. 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worfhipped and ferved the creature more than the Creator, who is bleffed for ever. Amen.

a Lev. xx. 5. And the foul that turneth after fuch as have familiar fpirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even fet my face against that foul, and will cut him off from among his people.

1 Sam. xxviii. 7. Then faid Saul unto his fervants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar fpirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his fervants faid to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar fpirit at En-dor. v. 11. Then faid the woman, Whom fhall I bring up unto thee? and he said, bring me up Samuel, Compared with Chronicles x. 13. So Saul died for his tranfgreffion which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord which he kept not, and alfo for asking counfel of one that had a familiar fpirit, to enquire of it; v. 14. And inquired

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