Memory cards for questions 51 to 60

Answer 51

The second commandment forbiddeth the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his word.

Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Exodus 32:5, 8; Deuteronomy 12:31-32

Answer 52

The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God’s sovereignty over us, his propriety in us, and the zeal he hath to his own worship.

Psalm 95:2-3, 6; Psalm 45:11; Exodus 34:13-14

Answer 53

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.

Exodus 20:7

Answer 54

The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, word and works.

Matthew 6:9; Deuteronomy 28:58; Psalm 68:4; Revelation 15:3-4; Malachi 1:11, 14; Psalm 138:1-2; Job 36:24

Answer 55

The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.

Malachi 1:6-7, 12; Malachi 2:2; Malachi 3:14

Answer 56

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 Samuel 2:12, 17, 22, 29; 1 Samuel 3:13; Deuteronomy 28:58-59

Answer 57

The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, 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.

Exodus 20:8-11

Answer 58

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.

Deuteronomy 5:12-14

Answer 59

From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath.

Genesis 2:2-3; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2; Acts 20:7

Answer 60

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; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.

Exodus 20:8, 10; Exodus 16:25-28; Nehemiah 13:15-19, 21-22; Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7; Psalm 92 (title); Isaiah 66:23; Matthew 12:1-13