Application. Oppose in good time that pernicious self-love by which a person, in all that he thinks, speaks, and does, has not in view the honor of God or the welfare of his neighbor, but only his own self, and his pretended advantages over others.
CHAPTER II.
On the Ten Commandments of God.
(See Short Hist. of Revealed Religion, 11.)
1. Where is our duty of loving God and our neighbor more fully contained?
In the Ten Commandments, which God gave to Moses written on two tables of stone.
2. What are the Ten Commandments?
1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me; thou shalt not make to thyself any graven thing to adore it.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor his field, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his.
3. Why are we Christians also bound to keep these Commandments of the Old Law?
1. Because Christ is not come 'to destroy the law,
