Q. 61. What is forbidden in the third commandment?
A. The third commandment forbids all profaning and abusing of any thing whereby God makes Himself known.
(Malachi 1:6,7; Lev. 20:3;19:12; Matt. 5:34-37; Isa. 52:5)
Q. 62. What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
A. The reason annexed to the third commandment is, that howsoever the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will
not suffer them to escape His righteous judgment.
(Deut. 28:58,59; Malachi 2:2)
Q. 63. Which is the fourth commandment?
A. 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 maid servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who 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)
Q. 64. What is required in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment requires the keeping holy to God such set times as He
has appointed in His Word, expressly one whole day in seven to be a holy Sabbath to Himself.
(Lev. 19:30; Deut. 5:12)
Q. 65. Which day of the seven has God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
A. From the creation 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.
(Gen. 2:3; John 20:19; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1,2; Rev. 1:10)
Q. 66. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
A. The Sabbath is to sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly
employments and recreations as are lawful on other days, and spending the 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.
(Lev. 23:3; Isa. 58:13,14; Isa. 66:23; Matt. 12:11,12)
Q. 67. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment forbids the ommission or careless performance of the
duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about worldly employments or
recreations.
(Ezekiel 22:26; 23:38; Jer. 17:21; Neh. 13:15,17; Acts 20:7)
Q. 68. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
A. The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days
of the week for our own employments, His challenging a special propriety in the seventh, His own example and His blessing the Sabbath day.
(Exodus 34:21; 31:16,17; Gen. 2:2,3)
Q. 69. Which is the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment is, "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may
be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
(Exodus 20:12)
Q. 70. What is required in the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honor, and performing the
duties, belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.
(Lev. 19:32; 1 Peter 2:17; Rom. 13:1; Eph. 5:21,22; Eph. 6:1,5,9; Col. 3:19-22; Rom. 12:10)
Q. 71. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment forbids the neglecting of, or doing anything against the
honor and duty which belongs to every one in their several places and relations.
(Prov. 30:17; Rom. 13:7,8)
Q. 72. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
A. The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is a promise of long life and
prosperity (as far as it shall serve God's glory and their own good), to all such as keep this commandment.
(Eph. 6:2,3; Prov. 4:3-6; 6:20-22)
Q. 73. Which is the sixth commandment(continued)
