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Larger Catechism Q 127. What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors? A. The honor which inferiors owe to their superiors is, all due reverence in heart, 1 word, 2 and behavior; 3 prayer and thanksgiving for them; 4 imitation of their virtues and graces; 5 willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels; 6 due submission to their corrections; 7 fidelity to, 8 defense, 9 and main...

Shorter Catechism Q 64. What is required in the fifth commandment? A. The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals. 1 Larger Catechism Q 126. What is the general scope of the fifth commandment? A. The general scope of the fifth commandment is, the performance of t...

Larger Catechism Q 125. Why are superiors styled father and mother? A. Superiors are styled father and mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations; 1 and to work inferiors to a greater willingness and cheerfulness in performing their duties to their superiors, as to their parents...

Larger Catechism Q 124. Who are meant by father and mother in the fifth commandment? A. By father and mother, in the fifth commandment, are meant, not only natural parents, 1 but all superiors in age 2 and gifts; 3 and especially such as, by God's ordinance, are over us in place of authority, whether in family, 4 church, 5 or commonwealth. 6 Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father who gave you life,...

Shorter Catechism Q 63. Which is the fifth commandment? A. The fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 1 Larger Catechism Q 123. Which is the fifth commandment? A. The fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 2 Exodus...

Shorter Catechism Q 42. What is the sum of the ten commandments? A. The sum of the Ten Commandments is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves. 1 Larger Catechism Q 122. What is the sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man? A. The sum of the six commandments which contain our duty...

Larger Catechism Q 121. Why is the word Remember set in the beginning of the fourth commandment? A. The word Remember is set in the beginning of the fourth commandment, 1 partly, because of the great benefit of remembering it, we being thereby helped in our preparation to keep it, 2 and, in keeping it, better to keep all the rest of the commandments, 3 and to continue a thankful remembrance of the...

Shorter Catechism Q 62. 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 employments, 1 his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day. 2 Larger Catechism Q 120. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enf...

Shorter Catechism Q 61. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission, or careless performance, of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or recreations. 1 Larger Catechism Q 119. What are the sins forbidden in the...

Larger Catechism Q 118. Why is the charge of keeping the Sabbath more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors? A. The charge of keeping the Sabbath is more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors, because they are bound not only to keep it themselves, but to see that it be observed by all those that are under their charge; and because they are pron...

Shorter Catechism Q 60. How is the sabbath to be sanctified? A. The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; 1 and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, 2 except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy. 3 Larger Catechism Q 117. How is...

Shorter Catechism Q 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath? A. From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath; 1 and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath. 2 Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God finished his work...

Shorter Catechism Q 58. 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 116. What is required in the fourth commandment? A. The fourth commandment requireth of all men the sanctifying or keeping holy to God...

Shorter Catechism Q 57. 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, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...

Shorter Catechism Q 56. 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. 1 Larger Catechism Q 114. What reasons are annexed to the third commandment? A. The reasons annexed to the third comma...

Shorter Catechism Q 55. What is forbidden in the third commandment? A. The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known. 1 Larger Catechism 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; 2 and the abuse of it in an ignorant, 3 vain, 4 i...

Shorter Catechism Q 54. What is required in the third commandment? A. The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God's names, titles, 1 attributes, 2 ordinances, 3 Word, 4 and works. 5 Larger Catechism Q 112. What is required in the third commandment? A. The third commandment requires, that the name of God, his titles, attributes, 6 ordinances, 7 the Word, 8 sacraments, 9 prayer,...

Shorter Catechism Q 53. 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. 1 Larger Catechism 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...

Shorter Catechism Q 52. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment? A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God's sovereignty over us, 1 his propriety in us, 2 and the zeal he hath to his own worship. 3 Larger Catechism Q 110. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it? A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enfor...

Shorter Catechism Q 51. What is forbidden in the second commandment? A. The second commandment forbiddeth the worshiping of God by images, 1 or any other way not appointed in his Word. 2 Larger Catechism Q 109. What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment? A. The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising, 3 counseling, 4 commanding, 5 using, 6 and anywise approving, any r...

Shorter Catechism Q 50. What is required in the second commandment? A. The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word. 1 Larger Catechism Q 108. What are the duties required in the second commandment? A. The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, an...

Shorter Catechism Q 49. 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 up...

Shorter Catechism Q 48. What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment? A. These words, before me, in the first commandment teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God. 1 Larger Catechism Q 106. What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment? A. These words b...

Shorter Catechism Q 47. What is forbidden in the first commandment? A. The first commandment forbiddeth the denying, 1 or not worshiping and glorifying, the true God as God, 2 and our God; 3 and the giving of that worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone. 4 Larger Catechism Q 105. What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment? A. The sins forbidden in the first commandment...

Shorter Catechism Q 46. What is required in the first commandment? A. The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly. 1 Larger Catechism Q 104. What are the duties required in the first commandment? A. The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only...