and writing ; by an holy profeffion y, and anfwerable converfation z, to the glory of God a, and the good of ourselves b, and others c. Q113. What are the fins forbidden in the third command ment? 4. The fins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required d; and the abuse of it in an ignorante, vainƒ, irreverent, profane g, fuperftitious h, : x Pfal. cii. 18. This fhall be written for the generation to come and the people which fhall be created, fhall praife the Lord. 1 Pet, iii. 15. But fan&tify 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. Micah. iv. 5. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. z Phil. i, 27. Only let your converfation be fuch as becometh the gofpel of Chrift :—— a1 Cor. x. 31. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. b Jer. xxxii. 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. c1 Pet. ii. 12. Having your converfation honeft among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you. as evil doers, they may by your good works which they fhall behold, glorify God in the day of vifitation. 13. d Mal. ii, 2. If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, faith the Lord of Hofts, I will even fend a curfe upon you, and I will curfe your bleflings: yea, I have g Mal, i. 6. A fon honoureth his father, and a fervant his mafter: if, then I be a father, where is mine honour and if I be a mafter, where is my fear? faith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priefts, that defpife my name: and ye fay, Wherein have we defpifed thy name? v. 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye fay, Wherein have we pol-. luted thee? in that ye fay, The table of the Lord is contemptible., v. 12. But ye have profaned it, in that, ye fay, The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meat is contemptible. Mal. iii. 14. Ye have faid, it is vain to ferve God; and what profit is it, that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hofts? b1 Sam. iv. 3. And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Ifrael faid, Wherefore hath R 3. the or wicked mentioning or otherwife ufing his titles, attri butes i, ordinances, or works, by blafphemy m, perjury n 4. པ. the Lord fmitten us to day before the Philiftines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that when it cometh among us, it may fave us out of the hand of our enemy, v. 4. So the people fent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two fons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there, with the ark of the covenant of God. V. 5. And when the ark of the cove. nant of the Lord came into the camp, all Ifrael houted with a great shout, fo that the earth rang again. jer. vii. Truft ye not in lying words, faying, The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these. 7.9. Will ye fteal, murder, and commit adultery, and fwear falfy; and burn incenfe unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; v. 10. And come and stand before me in this houfe, which is called by my name, and fay, We are delivered to do all these abominations? v. 14. Therefore will I do unto this houfe which is called by my name, where in ye truft, and unto the place which I gave to you, and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. v. 31. And they have built the high places of Tochat, which is in the valley of the fon of Hinnom, to burn their fons and daughters in the Are, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. Col. ii. 20. Wherefore if ye be dead with Chrift from the rudiments of the world why as though living in the world, ere ye fubject to ordinances? v, 21. all (Touch not, tafte not, handle not: V. 22. Which all are to perish with the ufing) after the commandments. and doctrines of men. ¿ 2 Kings xviii. 30. Neither let Hezekiah make you truft in the Lord, faying, the Lord will furely deliver us, and this city fhall not be delivered into the hand of the king of af-` fyria. v. 35. Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord fhould deliver Jerufalem out of mine hand?, Exod, v. 2. And Pharaoh faid, Who is the Lord, that I fhould obey his voice, to let Ifrael go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Ifrael go. Pfal, cxxxix. 20. For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Pfal. 1. 16. But unto the wicked God faith, What haft thou to do to declare my ftatutes? or that they fhouldft take my covenant in thy mouth? v. 17 Seeing thou hateft instruction, and cafteft my words behind thee. Ifa. v. 12. And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feafts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither confider the operation of his hands. 2 Kings xix. 22. Whom haft thou reproached and blafphemed? and against whom haft thou exalt ed thy voice, and lift up thine eyes on high? even against the holy One of Ifrael. Lev. xxiv. 11. And the Ifraelitish woman's fon blafphemed the name of the Lord, and curfed: and they brought him unto Moles. Zech. v. 4. I will bring it forth, faith the Lord of hofts, and it fhall all finful curfings o, oaths p, vows q, and lots r; violating of our oaths and vows, if lawful; and fulfilling 'them, enter into the houfe of the thief, and into the house of him that fweareth falfly by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his houfe, and fhall confume it, with the timber thereof, and the ftones thereof. Zech, viii. 17. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against your neighbour, and love no falfe oath: for all these are things that I hate, faith the Lord. 1 Sam. xvii. 43. And the Philiftine faid unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comeft to me with flaves? and the Philiftine curfed David by his gods. 2 Sam, xvi. 5. And when king David came to Bahurim, be hold, thence came out a man of the family of the houfe of Saul, whofe name was Shimei the fon of Gerar, he came forth, and curfed ftill as he came. Jer. v. 7. How fhall I pardon thee for this: thy children have forfaken nie, and fworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and affen.oled themselves by troops in the harlots houfes. Jer, xxiii. 10. For the land is full of a dulteries, for because of fwearing the land mourneth: the pleafant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their courfe is evil, and their force is not right. q Deut. xxiii. 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog into the houfe of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Acts xxiii. 12. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themfelves under a carfe, faying, That they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. v. 14. And they came to the chief. priests and elders, and faid, We: have bound ourselves under a great curfe, that we will eat nothing un* til we have flain Paul. Efth. iii. 7. In the first month (that is, the month Nifau) in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they caft 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. Efth ix. 24. Because Haman the fon of Hamedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had caft Pur, (that is, the lot) to confume them, and to destroy. them. Pfal. xxii. 18. They part my · garments among them, and caft lots upon my vesture, /Pfal. xxiv. 4. He that hath clean + hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lift up his foul unto vanity, nor fworn deceitfully. Ezek. xvii. 16. AS I live, faith the Lord God, furely in the place where the king dwelleth,. that made him king, whose oath he defpifed, and whofe covenant he brake, even with him, in the midst of Babylon he fhall die. v. 18. See-T ing he defpifed the oath, by break ing the covenant, (when lo, he had given his hand) and hath done all thefe things, he fhall not escape. v 9. Therefore thus faith the Lord God, As I live, furely mine oath that he hath defpifed, and my com venant that he hath broken, even it will I recompenfe upon his own head. R 4 + Mark them, if of things unlawful t; murmuring and quarreling. at v, curious prying into w, and mifapplying of God's decrees, and providences y: mifinterpreting z, mifapplying a, or any way perverting the word, or any part of it b, to pro 1 Mark vi. 26. And the king was exceeding forry, yet for his oath's fake, and for their fakes who fat with him, he would not reject her, 1 Sam. xxv. 22. So and more alfo do God unto the enemies of David, if leave of all that pertain to him, by the morning light, any that piffeth against the wall. V. 32. and David faid to Abigail, Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael who fent thee this day to meet me : . 33. And bleffed be thy advice, and bleffed be thou who haft kept me this day from coming to fhed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. v. 34. For in very deed, as the Lord God of Ifrael liveth, who hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadft hafted and come to meet me, furely there had not been left unto Nabal, by the morning light, any that piffeth against the wall. v Rom. ix. 14. What fhall we fay then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. v. 19. Thou wilt fay then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath refifted his will? v. 20. Nay, but, O man, who art thou that re plieft against God? fhall the thing formed fay to him that formed it, Why haft thou made me thus ? Deut. xxix. 29. The fecret things belong unto the Lord our sod, 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. Rom. iii. 5. But if our unrighteoufnels commend the righteoufnefs of god; what fhall we fay? is cod : fane unrighteous who taketh vengeance? fpeak as a man. v. 7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I alfo judged as a finner? Rom, vi. 1. What fhall we fay then? fhall we continue in fin, that grace may abound? God forbid. y Eccl. viii, 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed fpeedily; therefore the heart of the fons of men is fully fet in them to do evil. Eccl. ix. 3. This is an evil among all things that are done under the fun, that there is one event unto all: Yea, alfo the heart of the fons of men is full of evil, and mad❤ nefs is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead. Pfal, xxix. Throughout. I faid, I will take heed to my ways, that I fin not with my tongue. z Mat. v. 21. To the end. (See Quest. 99. letter o.) a Ezek. xiii. 22. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous fad, whom I have not made fad, and strengthened the hands of the vicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promifing him life. 2 Pet. iii. 16. As alfo in all bis epiftles, fpeaking in them of thefe things: in which are fome things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wreft, as they do alfo the other fcriptures, unto their own deftruction. Mat. xxii. 24. to the 31. Saying, Mafter, Mofes faid, if a man die, having no children, his brother fall marry his wife, and raise up feed fane jefts c, curious and unprofitable queftions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of falfe doctrines d; abufing it, the creatures, or any thing contained under the name of God, to charms e, or finful lufts and practices f; the malign=" ing, unto his brother. v. 25. Now there were with us feven brethren, and the first-v. 28. Therefore in the refurrection, whofe wife fhall fhe be of the feven? for they all had her. v. 29. Jefus answered and faid unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the fcriptures, nor the power of God, V. 30. For in the refurrection e Ifa. xxii. 13. And behold, joy, and gladness, flaying oxen and killing theep, eating flefh, and drinking wise; let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Jer. xliii. 34. And as for the prophet, ard the priest, and the people that fhall fay, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that ruan and his houfe. v. 36. And the burden of the Lord fhall ye mention no more: for every man's word fhall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hofls our God. v. 38. But fith ye fay, The burden of the Lord; therefore thús faith the Lord, Because ye fay this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have fent unto you, faying, Ye fhall not fay, the burden of the Lord. d1 Tim. i. 4. Neither give heed to fables, and endless genealogies, which minifter questions, rather than godly edifying, which is in faith: fo do. v. 6.From which (faith) fome having fwerved, have turned afide unto vain jangling; v. 7, Defiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they fay, nor whereof they affirm. 1 Tim, vi. 4. He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and frifes of words, whereof cometh envy, ftrife, railings, evil furmifings, v. 5. Perverfe difputings of men of corrupt minds, and deftitute of the truth, fuppofing that gain is godlinefs : from fuch withdraw thyfelf. v. 20, O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy truft, avoiding profane and vain bablings, and oppofitions of fcience, falfly fo called. 2 Tim. ii. 14. Of thefe things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, but to the fubverting of the hearers. Tit. iii. 9. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and ftrivings about the law; for they are unprofitable, and vain. V. 12. e Deut. xviii. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. There fhall not be found among you any one that maketh his fon or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that ufeth divination, or an obferver of times, or an inchanter, or a witch, v. 11, Or a charmer, or a confulter with familiar fpirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord, &c. Acts xix. 13. Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcifts, took upon them to call over them who had evil fpirits, the name of the Lord Je-. fus, faying, We adjure you by Je, fus whom Paul preacheth. f2 Tim, vi. 3. For the time will come when they will not endure found doctrine; but after their own lufts fhall they heap to themselves. teachors, having itching cars. v. 41. And they shall turn away their ears from |