The Book of Confessions - The Presbyterian Leader

flattering, (1672) vainglorious boasting, (1673) thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly
of ourselves or others; denying the gifts and graces of God; (1674) aggravating smaller
faults; (1675) hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession; (1676)
unnecessarily discovering of infirmities; (1677) raising false rumors; (1678) receiving and
countenancing evil reports, (1679) and stopping our ears against just defense; (1680) evil
suspicion; (1681) envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any; (1682) endeavoring or
desiring to impair it, (1683) rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy; (1684) scornful
contempt, (1685) fond admiration, (1686) breach of lawful promises; (1687) neglecting such
things as are of good report; (1688) and practicing or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering
what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name. (1689)
Q. 146. Which is the Tenth Commandment?
A. The Tenth Commandment is, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou
shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." (1690)
Q. 147. What are the duties required in the Tenth Commandment?
A. The duties required in the Tenth Commandment are: such a full contentment with
our own condition, (1691) and such a charitable frame of the whole soul towards our neighbor,
as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto and further all that good
which is his. (1692)
Q. 148. What are the sins forbidden in the Tenth Commandment?
A. The sins forbidden in the Tenth Commandment are: discontentment with our own
estate; (1693) envying, (1694) and grieving at the good of our neighbor, (1695) together with
all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his. (1696)
Q. 149. Is any man able perfectly to keep the Commandments of God?
A. No man is able, either of himself, (1697) or by any grace received in this life,
perfectly to keep the Commandments of God; (1698) but doth daily break them in
thought, (1699) word, and deed. (1700)
Q. 150. Are all transgressions of the law of God equally heinous in themselves,
and in the sight of God?
A. All transgressions of the law of God are not equally heinous; but some sins in
themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than
others. (1701)
Q. 151. What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than
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