the communion of saints, overcoming the flesh, the world, and the devil, and living in hope of the coming of Christ, and of everlasting life.t

8. At death, the souls of the justified go to happiness with Christ, and the souls of the wicked to misery; and at the end of this world the Lord Jesus Christ will come again, and will raise the bodies of all men from the dead, and will judge all the world, according to the good or evil which they have done; and the righteous shall go into everlasting life, where they shall see God's glory, and, being perfected in holiness, shall love, and praise, and please him perfectly, and be loved by him for evermore, and the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment with the devil."

II. According to this belief, we do, deliberately and seriously, by unfeigned consent of will, take this one God, the infinite Power, Wisdom, and Goodness, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for our only God, our reconciled Father, our Saviour, and our Sanctifier, and resolvedly give up ourselves to him accordingly; entering into his church, under the hands of his ministers, by the solemnisation of this covenant, in the sacrament of baptism. And in prosecution of this covenant, we proceed to stir up our desires, by daily prayer to God, in the name of Christ, by the help of the Holy Spirit, in the order following: 1. We desire the glorifying and hallowing of the name of God, that he may be known, and loved, and honoured by the world, and may be well pleased in us, and we may delight in him, which is our ultimate end: 2. That his kingdom of grace may be enlarged, and his kingdom of glory, as to the perfected church of the sanctified, may come; that mankind may more universally subject themselves to God, their Creator and Redeemer, and be saved by him: 3. That this earth, which is grown too like to hell, may be made more like to the holy ones in heaven, by a holy conformity to God's will, and obedience to all his laws, denying and mortifying their own fleshly desires, wills, and minds: 4. That our natures may have necessary

* Acts xxvi. 17, 18; Rom. viii. 9—11; Acts xvi. 14; John vi. 44; Ezek. xxxvi. 26; Gal. v. 22; Col. ii. 19; Eph. v. 30-32, and iii. 17; 1 Cor. xii. 12, 13, 27; Rom. iii. 24, and iv. 24; John i. 12; Tit. ii. 14; Rom. v. 5; Matt. x. 37; 1 Cor. vi. 11; Luke i. 75; 1 John iii. 14; 1 Pet. i. 22; Acts xxiv. 2; Gal. v. 17, 24; 1 John ii. 15; 1 Cor. i. 7; 2 Pet. iii. 11, 12; Tit. i. 2, and iii. 7; Luke xxiii, 43, and xvi. 22; 2 Cor. v. 1, 8; Phil. i. 23; 2 Pet. iii. 19; Luke xvi. 28; Acts i. 11.

1 Cor. xv.; John v. 22, 29; Matt. xxv.; 2 Cor. v. 10; Matt. xxv., and xiii 41, 42, 43; 2 Tim. iv. 8, 18; 2 Thess. i, 8-10, and li. 12; John xvii. 24.

support, protection, and provision, in our daily service of God,
and passage through this world, with which we ought to be
content: 5. That all our sins may be forgiven us, through our
Redeemer, as we ourselves are ready to pardon wrongs: 6. That
we may be kept from temptations, and delivered from sin and
misery, from Satan, from wicked men, and from ourselves;
concluding our prayers with the joyful praises of God, our
Heavenly Father, acknowledging his kingdom, power, and glory,
for ever.

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III. The laws of christian practice are these: 1. That our
souls do firmly adhere to God, our Creator, Redeemer, and
Sanctifier, by faith, love, confidence, and delight; that we seek
him by desire, obedience, and hope; meditating on himself,
his word and works of creation, redemption, and sanctification,
of death, judgment, heaven, and hell; exercising repentance,
and mortifying sin, especially atheism, unbelief, and unholiness,
hardness of heart, disobedience, and unthankfulness, pride,
worldliness, and flesh-pleasing; examining our hearts, about
our graces, our duties, and our sins; watchfully governing our
thoughts, affections, passions, senses, appetites, words, and
outward actions; resisting temptations, and serving God with
all our faculties, and glorifying him in our hearts, our speeches,
and our lives. Y

2. That we worship God according to his holiness, and
his word, in spirit and truth, and not with fopperies and
imagery, according to our own devices, which may dishonour
him, and lead us to idolatry.

3. That we ever use his name with special reverence,
especially in appealing to him by an oath; abhorring pro-
faneness, perjury, and breach of vows and covenants to God.

* Luke xv. 21; Acts ii. 37, and iii. 19; Rom. viii. 13; Luke xiv. 33; 1
Thess. i. 9; Exod. xx. 3; Deut. xxvi. 17; Josh. xxiv. 16, 26; 2 Cor. viii. 5;
John xvii. 3; 1 Cor. viii. 6; 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18; 1 John i. 3; Eph. iv. 5, 6;
John xiv. 6; Luke v. 14, and xiv. 26; Acts ix. 6; Rom. vi. 13, 16; Luke xix.
27; John iii. 10; Matt. xxviii. 19; Eph. ii. 18, 22, and i. 13, 14, 18; Rom.
viii. 9, 13, 16, 26; 1 Cor. ii. 10; Eph. ii. 18, 22, and iii. 5, 16; 2 Cor. i. 22, and
v. 5; Isa. xliv. 3-5; Rom. xv. 6.

See the Lord's Prayer.

The Ten Commandments. Jude 21; Gal. v. 22; Luke x. 27; 1 Tim. iv.
7; Isa. Ixiv. 7; Acts xxiv. 16; Col. iii. 5; Rom. viii. 13; Heb. iii. 11, 13;
Matt. xv. 18, 19; Luke xii. 15; Rom. xiii. 13, 14; 1 Cor. iii. 18; 2 Pet. i. 10;
2 Cor. xiii. 5; Gal. vi. 3, 4; Psalm iv. 4; civ. 34 ; i. 2, and cxix. 97, 99; Gen.
xxiv. 63; Eph. iii. 18, 19; Psalm xc. 12; Luke xii. 36; 2 Pet. iii. 11, 12;
Luke xxi. 36; Psalm cxli. 1; 1 Cor. x. 12; Psalm xxxix. 1; Prov. iv. 23; Eph.
vi. 10, 19; 1 Pet. v. 9; Jam. iv. 7; Psalm xxxiv. 3, and cxlv. 2; 1 Thess. iii.
17; Phil. iv. 6.

4. That we meet in holy assemblies for his more solemn worship; where the pastors teach his word to their flocks, and lead them in prayer and praise to God, administer the sacrament of communion, and are the guides of the church in holy things; whom the people must hear, obey, and honour; especially the Lord's day must be thus spent in holiness."

5. That parents educate their children in the knowledge and fear of God, and in obedience of his laws; and that princes, masters, and all superiors, govern in holiness and justice, for the glory of God, and the common good, according to his laws; and that children love, honour, and obey their parents, and all subjects their rulers, in due subordination unto God."

6. That we do nothing against our neighbour's life, or bodily welfare, but carefully preserve it as our own. b

7. That no man defile his neighbour's wife, or commit fornication; but preserve our own and others' chastity in thought, word, and deed.c

8. That we wrong not another in his estate, by stealing, fraud, or any other means; but preserve our neighbour's

9. That we pervert not justice by false witness, or otherwise; nor wrong our neighbour in his name, by slanders, backbiting, or reproach; that we lie not, but speak the truth in love, and preserve our neighbour's right and honour as our own.

10. That we be not selfish, setting up ourselves and our own, against our neighbour and his good, desiring to draw from him unto ourselves; but that we love our neighbour as ourselves, desiring his welfare as our own; doing to others as, regularly, we would have them do to us; forbearing, and forgiving one another; loving even our enemies, and doing good to all, according to our power, both for their bodies and their souls.f

* John iv. 23, 24: Matt. xv. 9; Isa. i. 13; Deut. vi. 13, and x. 20; Jer. iv. 2, and xii. 16; Jam. v. 12; Acts v. 42; vi. 2, and xx. 7, 28, 30, 31, 36; 1 Cor. xiv. 16, 26; Jam. v. 14; Phil. i. 4; 1 Cor. xi. 24, and x. 16; Heb. vii. 7; Rev. i. 10; Acts xx. 7 1 Cor. xvi. 2.

Eph. vi. 4. 9; Deut. vi. 11, 12; Dan. vi. 10; Acts x. 30; Psalm ci.; I Sam. ii. 23, 29; Gen. xviii. 19; Josh. xxiv. 15; Col. iii. 20, 22; Deut. xxi. 18.

b Matt. v. 21-23, 25, 38, 39.

c Matt. v. 27-30.

d 1 Thess. iv. 6; Eph. iv. 28.

• Prov. xix. 5, 9, and xxi. 28; Rom. xiii. 9; Rev. xvi. 19, and xxiv. 17 ; Prov. xvii. 23, and xxxi. 5; Col. iii. 9; Prov. xii. 22; vi. 17, and xiii. 5.

Rom. vii. 7, and xiii. 4; Matt. xix. 19, and xxii. 36; Luke xiv. 22, 23 ; Jam. ii. 8, and iii. 13; 1 Cor. xiii.; Matt, vii, 12; Eph. iv. 32; Col. iii. 13 z

This is the substance of the christian religion.

Sect. 15. II. The sum, or abstract, of the christian religion, is contained in three short forms; the first, called the Creed, containing the matter of the christian belief; the second, called the Lord's Prayer, containing the matter of christian desire and hope; the third, called the law, or decalogue, containing the sum of moral duties; which are as followeth.

The Belief.

1. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth; 2. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, and buried, descended to hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come again to judge the quick and the dead: 3. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

The Lord's Prayer.

Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us and lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.

The Ten Commandments.

God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.h

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any

1 John iv. 16; Rom. xiii. 9; 1 Thess. iv. 9; 1 Pet. i. 22; iii. 8, and ii. 17; Gal. vi. 10; Eph. ii. 10; Tit. ii. 14.

Hades, of which read Bishop Usher, in his 'Answer to the Jesuits' Challenge.' De totis Scripturis, hæc breviatim collecta sunt ab Apostolis, ut quia plures credentium literas nesciuat, vel qui sciunt præoccupationibus seculi Scripturas legere non possunt, hæc corde retinentes habeant sibi sufficientem scientiam salutarem.-Isidor. de Eccl. Offic. lib. 2. cap. 22. p. (in Bibl. Patr.)

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Exod. xx.; Deut. v.

likeness of any thing 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 iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to 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. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. 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, 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.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Sect. 16. The ten commandments are summed up by Christ into these two: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and soul, and might; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Sect. 17. These commandments, being first delivered to the Jews, are continued by Christ as the sum of the law of nature; only, instead of deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, he hath made our redemption from sin and Satan, which was thereby typified, to be the fundamental motive; and he hath removed the memo

i De die septimo qui inter omnes mortales celebris est, magna apud plerosque ignorantia est. Hic enim dies qui ab Hebræis Sabbatum vocatur, Græcè siquis interpretetur, Septimana, dicitur. Hoc nomine mortales omnes diem istum appellant; at nominis causam nesciunt plerique.-Theophil. Antioch, ad Autol. lib. 1. p. (mihi) 121. in B. P. Gr. L. T. 1.