creations; by charitable thoughts, love, compaffion", meeknefs, gentleness, kindness,; peaceable', mild and courteous fpeeches and behaviour"; forbearing, readiness to be reconciled, patient bearing and forgiving of injuries, and requiting good for evila; comforting and fuccouring the diftreffed, and protecting and defending the innocent".

Q. 136. What are the fins forbidden in the fixth commandment?

A. The fins forbidden in the fixth commandment are, all taking away the life of ourselves or

fore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humblenefs of mind, meekness, long-fuffering.

y Rom. 12. 18. If it be poffible, as much as in you lieth. live peaceably with all men.

z i Pet. 3. 8, 9. Be pitiful, be courteous ; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, but contrariwife bleffing. I Cor. 4. 12. 13. Being reviled, we blefs; being perfecuted, we fuffer it; being defamed, we intreat.

a Col. 3. 13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any; even as Chrift forgave you, fo alfo do ye. Jam. 3. 17. The wifdom that is from above is,-gentle and easy to be entreated. I Pet. 2. 20. If when ye do well and fuffer for it ye take it patiently; this is acceptable with God. Rom. 12. 20. If thine enemy

hunger, feed him if he thirst, give him drink; for in fo doing thou fhalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Mat. 5. 24.

b Theff. 5. 14. Comfort the feeble minded, fupport the weak. Mat. 25. 35, 36. I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was fick, and ye

vifited me; I was in prifon, and ye came unto me. Job 31. 19, 20. Ifa. 58. 7. Prov. 31. 8,9. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the caufe of all fuch as are appointed to deftruction. Plead the cause of the poor and needy.

c Acts 16. 28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, faying, Do thyfelf no harm, for we are all here. Prov. 1. 18.

of othersa; except in cafe of public justice, lawful warf or neceffary defences; the neglecting or withdrawing the lawful or neceffary means of prefervation of life"; finful anger', hatred, envy, defire of revenge"; and exceffive passions", diftracting cares"; immoderate use of meat,

drink', labour, and recreations"; provoking words'; oppreffion', quarrelling", ftriking, wounding", and whatsoever elfe tends to the deftruction of the life of any*.

Q. 137. Which is the feventh commandment? A. The feventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery?

Q. 138. What are the duties required in the leventh commandment?

A. The duties required in the feventh commandment are, chastity in body, mind, affections, words"; and behaviour; and the preferva

of hofts. Exod. 1. 14.

v Gal. 5. 15. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not confumed one of another.

w Num. 35. 16. And if he fmite him with an inftrument of iron, so that he die; he is a murderer; the murderer fhall furely be put to death, &c. &c.

x Prov. 28. 17. A man that doeth violence to the blood of any perfon, fhall flee to the pit; let no man ftay him. Exod. 21. 18. to the end.

y Exod. 20. 14.

Z I Theff. 4. 4. 5. Every one of you should know how to poffefs his veffel in fanctification and honour; not in the luft of concupifcence. Job 31. 1.

a Eph. 4. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying. Col. 4. 6.

bi Pet. 3. 2: While they

tion of it in ourselves and others, watchfulness over the eyes and all the fenfes"; temperance, keeping of chafte company, modesty in apparel"; marriage by those that have not the gift of continency, conjugal love', and cohabitation*; diligent labour in our callings'; fhunning all occafions of uncleannefs, and refifting temptations thereuntoTM.

behold your chafte converfa tion, coupled with fear.

c 1 Cor. 7. 2. Nevertheless to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own hufband. Tit. 2. 4, 5. That they may teach the young women to be difcreet, chaste, keepers at home.

Mat. 5. 28. Whofoever looketh on a woman to luft after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Job 31. 1.

e Prov. 23. 31, 33. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red-Thine eyes fhall behold ftrange women. Jer. 5. 7. When I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and affembled themfelves by troops in the harlots' houses.

f Prov. 2. 16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the ftranger which flattereth with her words; &c. 1 Cor. 5. 9. I wrote unto you in an epiftle, not to company with fornicators.

g1 Tim. 2. 9. In like man

ner also, that the women adorn themselves in modeft apparel, with fhamefacedness and fobriety.

hi Cor. 7. 9. But if they cannot contain let them marry.

i Prov. 5. 18, 19. Rejoice with the wife of thy youth; let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe; let her breafts fatisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

k Pet. 3. 7. Likewife, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge.-1 Cor. 7. 5. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with confent for a time-and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Q. 139. What are the fins forbidden in the Seventh commandment?

A. The fins forbidden in the feventh commandment, befide the neglect of the duties required", are adultery, fornication, rape, incest", sodomy, and all unnatural lufts; all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes and affections"; all corrupt or filthy communications, or liftening thereunto'; wanton looks', impudent or light

n Prov. 5. 7. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Prev. 4. 23, 27.

o Heb. 13. 4. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Eph. 5. 5. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean perfon-hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Chrift and of God. Gal. 5. 19.

p 2 Sam. 13, 14. Howbeit he would not hearken to her voice but being ftronger than fhe, forced her, and lay with her. Mark 6. 18. John had faid unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. 1 Cor. 5. 1, 13.

q Rom. 1. 26, 27. For this caufe God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change the natural ufe into that which is against nature; and likewife alfo the men, leaving the natural ufe of the woman burned in their luft, one towards another. Lev. 20. 15, 16. If a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to

death; and ye fhall flay the beaft. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou fhalt kill the woman and the beast; they fhall furely be put to death; their blood fhall be upon them.

r Mat. 15. 19. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications. Col. 3. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleannefs, inordinate affec.. tion, evil concupifcence, and covetoufnefs, which is idolatry. Mat. 5. 28.

f Eph. 5. 3, 4. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetoufnefs let it not be once named among you, as becometh faints; neither filthiness, nor, foolish talking, nor jefting, which

are not convenient. Prov. 7.5, 21. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words, &c. Prov. 19. 27.

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t Ifa, 3. 16. The daughters Zion are haughty, and