A34242:438
The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. These words, before me, or before my face, in the first Commandment, teach us, that God who seeth all things, takes special notice of, and is much displeased with the si• ⟨p. 119⟩of having any other God; that so it may be an argument to dissuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocationl: as also to persuade us to do, as in his sight, whatever we do in his servicem.
A. These words, before me, or before my face, in the first Commandment, teach us, that God who seeth all things, takes special notice of, and is much displeased with the si• ⟨p. 119⟩of having any other God; that so it may be an argument to disswade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocationl: as also to perswade us to do, as in his sight, whatever we do in his servicem.
- lEzek. 8.5. to the end
- m1 Chyon. 38, 9.
Q. 207. Which is the second Commandment?