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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. 121. Why is the word Remember set in the beginning of the fourth Commandment?
A. The word Remember is set in the beginning of the fourth Commandment⟨p. 128⟩o, partly because of the great benefit of remembering it: we being thereby helped in our preparation to keep itp ▪ and in keeping it, •etter to keep all the rest of the Commandmentsq, and to continue a thankful remembrance of the two great benefits of Creation and Redemption which contain a short abridgement of Religionr, and partly because we are very ready to forget its, for that there is l•s light of •ature for itt, and yet it restraineth our natural liberty in things at other times lawfulu: that it cometh but once in seven days, and many worldly businesses come between, and too often take off our minds from thinking of it, either to prepare for it, or to sanctify itw, & that Satan with his instruments, much labour to blot out the glory and even the memory of it, to bring in all irreligion and impiety