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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.
Q. 110. What are the reasons annexed to the second Commandment, the more to enforce it?
A The reasons annexed to the second Commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, [For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation, of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me & keep my Commandmentsc,] are besides Gods sovereignty over us, & propriety in usd, his fervent zeal for his own worshipe, & his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredomf; accounting the breakers of this Commandment ⟨p. 122⟩such as hate him & threatening to punish them unto divers generationsg, & esteeming the observers of it such as love him, and keep his Commandments & promising mercy to them unto many generationsh.
A The reasons annexed to the second Commandment, the more to inforce it, contained in these words, [For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation, of them that hate me, and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me & keep my Commandmentsc,] are besides Gods soveraignty over us, & propriety in us