Question 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
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
What 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 upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”1
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
What is required in the First Commandment?
A. The First Commandment requireth us1 to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God;2 and to worship and glorify him accordingly.3
1. The exposition of the Ten Commandments found in answers to Questions 46–81 are deductions from the commandments themselves and the rules set forth in the Larger Catechism, Q.99. The texts under the specifications are given to show that they are in accord with the general teaching of the Scriptures.
Which is the First Commandment?
A. The First Commandment is, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”1
What doth the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us?
A. The preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us that because God is the Lord, and our God and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments.
What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?
A. The preface to the Ten Commandments is in these words: “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”1
Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
A. The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments.1
What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience was the moral law.1
