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keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations (h).

Q. 111. Which is the third commandment?

A. The third commandment is, 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 (i).

Q. 112. What is required in the third commandment? A. The third commandment requires, That the name of God, his titles, attributes (k), ordinances (1), the word (m), sacraments (n), prayer (o), oaths (p), vows (q), lots (r),

her adulteries from between her breasts.

(h) Deut. 5. 29. O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

(i) Exodus 20. 7.

(k) Matthew 6. 9. After this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Deut. 28. 58. If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law, that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD. Psal. 29. 2. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

(1) Mal. 1. 15. But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing; for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. Eccl. 5. 1. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools; for they consider not that they do evil.

(m) Psal. 138. 2. I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name, for thy lovingkindness, and for thy truth: for

thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

(n) 1 Cor. 11. 28, 29. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

(0) 1 Tim. 2. 8. I will, therefore, that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

(P) Jer. 4. 2. And thou shalt swear, the Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

(9) Eccl. 5. 2. 4, 5. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few. When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it for he hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

(r) Acts 1. 24. 26. And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen. And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell

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his works (s), and whatsoever else there is whereby he makes himself known, be holily and reverently used in thought (t), meditation (v), word (w), and writing (x); by an holy profession (y), and answerable conversation (z), to the glory of God (a), and the good of ourselves (b), and others (c).

Q. 113. What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?

A. The sins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required (d); and the abuse of it in an ignorant (e), vain (f), irreve

upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. (s) Job 36. 24. Remember that thou magnify his work, which

men behold.

(t) Mal. 3. 16. Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

(v) Psal. 8. 1-9. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

(w) Col. 3. 17. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

(x) Psal. 102. 18. This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord. (y) 1 Peter 3. 15. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh

you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.

(z) Phil. 1. 27. Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.

(a) 1 Cor. 10. 31. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

(b) Jer. 32. 39. And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them.

(c) 1 Peter 2. 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

(d) Mal. 2. 2. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

(e) Acts 17. 23. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye igno rantly worship, him declare to you.

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(f) Prov. 30. 9. Lest I be full

rent (g), profane (h), superstitious (i), or wicked mentioning or otherwise using his titles, attributes, ordinances (k), or works (1), by blasphemy (m), perjury (n), all sinful cursings (o), oaths (p), vows (y), and lots (r), violating of our

and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

(g) Mal. 1. 6. A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. (h) Mal. 1. 12. But ye have prophaned it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meat is contemptible. Mal. 3. 14. Ye have said, It is in vain to serve God; and what profit is it, that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts.

(i) Jer. 7. 4. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these. Col. 2. 20. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world; why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

(k) Psal. 50. 16. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth?

(i) Isa. 5. 12. And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

(m) 2 Kings 19. 22. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lift up thine eyes on high? even against the holy one of Israel. Lev. 24.

11. And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed: and they brought him unto Moses.

(n) Zech, 5. 4. I will bring it forth, said the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof. Zech. 8. 17. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

(0) 1 Samuel 17. 43. And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? and the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 2 Sam. 16. 5. Ad when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei the son of Gerar; he came forth, and cursed still as he

came.

(p) Jer. 5. 7. How shall 1 pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods; when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and as sembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

(q) Deut. 23. 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Acts 22. 12. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves

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oaths and vows, if lawful (s), and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful (t); murmuring and quarrelling at (v), curious prying into (w), and misapplying of God's decrees (x), and providences (y); misinterpreting (z), misapplying (a), or any way perverting the word, or any part of it (b), to profane jests (c), curious or unprofitable questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines (d); abusing it, the creatures, or any thing contain

⚫ under a curse, saying, That they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

(r) Esth. 3. 7. In the first month (that is, the month Nisan) in the, twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is the month Adar. Psal. 22. 18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

(8) Psal. 24. 4. He that hath elean hands and a pure heart: who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. Ezek. 17. 19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompence upon his own head.

(t) Mark 6. 26. And the king was exceeding sorry, yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.

(v) Rom. 9. 14. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

(w) Deut. 29. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: But those things which are revealed, belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

(x) Rom. 3. 5, 7. But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who

taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man). For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Rom. 6. 1. What shall we say then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.

(y) Eccl. 8. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully

set in them to do evil.

(z) Mat. 5. 21. To the end. (See Question 99, letter o.)

(a) Ezek. 13. 22. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.

(b) 2 Peter 3. 16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of those things in which

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some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

(c) Isa. 22. 13. And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

(d) 1 Timothy 1. 4. Neither give heed to fables, and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying, which is in faith.

ed under the name of God, to charms (e), or sinful lusts and practices (f); the maligning (g), scorning (h), reviling (i), or any wise opposing of God's truth, grace, and ways (k); making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends (1); being ashamed of it (m), or a shame to it, by uncomfortable (n), unwise (o), unfruit

(e) Deut. 18. 10-14. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord, &c. Acts 19. 13. Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

(f) 2 Tim. 4. 3. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.

(g) Acts 13. 45. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Ch) Psal. 1. 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 Pet. 3. 3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. (i) 1 Pet. 4. 4. Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.

(k) Acts 19. 9. But when divers were hardened, and believ

ed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 1 Thess. 2. 16. Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. Heb. 10. 29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

(1) 2 Tim. 3. 5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away. Mat. 23. 14. Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

(m) Mark 8. 38. Whosoever, therefore, shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

(n) Psal. 73. 14, 15. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. If I say, I will speak thus: behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children,

Co) 1 Cor. 6. 5. I speak to. your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man amongst you? no

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