The Book of Confessions - The Presbyterian Leader

profane, (1368) superstitious, (1369) or wicked mentioning or otherwise using the titles,
attributes, (1370) ordinances, (1371) or works; (1372) by blasphemy; (1373) perjury; (1374)
all sinful cursing, (1375) oaths, (1376) vows, (1377) and lots; (1378) violating our oaths
and vows, if lawful; (1379) and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful; (1380) murmuring and
quarreling at, (1381) curious prying into, (1382) and misapplying of God's decrees (1383)
and providence; (1384) misinterpreting, (1385) misapplying, (1386) or any way perverting
the Word, or any part of it, (1387) to profane jests, (1388) curious and unprofitable questions,
vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines; (1389) abusing it, the creatures, or anything
contained under the name of God, to charms, (1390) or sinful lusts and practices; (1391) the
maligning, (1392) scorning, (1393) reviling, (1394) or any way opposing of God's truth,
grace, and ways; (1395) making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister
ends; (1396) being ashamed of it, (1397) or a shame to it, by uncomfortable, (1398)
unwise, (1399) unfruitful, (1400) and offensive walking (1401) or backsliding from
it. (1402)
Q. 114. What reasons are annexed to the Third Commandment?
A. The reasons annexed to the Third Commandment, in these words, "the Lord thy
God," and, "for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain," (1403) are
because he is the Lord and our God, therefore his name is not to be profaned, or any way abused
by us; (1404) especially because he will be so far from acquitting and sparing the transgressors of
this Commandment, as that he will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment, (1405)
albeit many such escape the censures and punishments of men. (1406)
Q. 115. 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; 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." (1407)
Q. 116. What is required in the Fourth Commandment?
A. The Fourth Commandment requireth of all men the sanctifying or keeping holy to
God such set times as he hath appointed in his Word, expressly one whole day in seven; (1408)
which was the seventh from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, (1409) and
the first day of the week ever since, and so to continue to the end of the world; which is the
Christian Sabbath, (1410) and in the New Testament called "the Lord's Day."
Q. 117. How is the Sabbath or Lord's Day to be sanctified?
A. The Sabbath, or Lord's Day, is to be sanctified by an holy resting all that
day, (1411) not only from such works as are at all times sinful, but even from such worldly
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