A. The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour's good name, especially in witness bearing.

Q78. What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?

A. The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatfoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbour's good name.

Q.79. Which is the tenth commandment ?

A. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-fervant, nor his maidfervant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's..

Q. 80. What is required in the tenth commandment?

A. The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition, with a right and charitable frame of fpirit toward our neighbour, and all that is his.

Q. 81. What is forbidden in the tenth command

ment ?

A. The tenth commandment forbiddeth all difcontentment with our own eftate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions or affections to any thing that is his.

Q. 82. Is any man able perfectly to keep the com mandments of God?

A. No mere man, fince the fall, is able, in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of God; but doth daily break them, in thought, word and deed.

Q. 83. Are all tranfgreffions of the law equally beinous?

A. Some fins in themselves, and by reason of feveral aggravations, are more heinous in the fight of God than others.

Q. 84. What doth every fin deferve?

A. Every fin deferveth God's wrath and curse, both in this life and that which is to come.

Q. 85. What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curfe, due to us for fin?

A. To efcape the wrath and curfe of God, due to us for fin, God requireth of us faith in Jefus Chrift, repentance unto life, with the diligent ufe of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption.

Q. 86. What is faith in Jefus Chrift?

A. Faith in Jefus Chrift is a saving grace, whereby we receive and reft upon him alone for falvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.

Q. 87. What is repentance unto life?

A. Repentance unto life is a faving grace, whereby a finner, out of a true sense of his fin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his fin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience.

Q. 88. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Chrift communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?

A. The outward and ordinary means, whereby Chrift communicateth to us the benefits of redemption, are, his ordinances, especially the word, facraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for falvation.

Q. 89. How is the word made effectual to ful vation ?

A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but efpecially the preaching of the word, an effectual mean of convincing and converting finners, and of building them up in holinefs, and comfort, through faith unto falvation.

Q. 90. How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to falvation?

A. That the word may become effectual to falvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practise it in our lives.

Q 91. How do the facraments become effectual means of falvation?:

A. The facraments become effectual means of falvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth adminifter them, but only by the bleffing of Chrift, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.

Q. 92. What is a facrament?

A. A facrament is an holy ordinance inflituted by Chrift; wherein, by fenfible figns, Chrift and the benefits of the new covenant are reprefented, fealed and applied to believers.

Q. 93. Which are the facraments of the New Teftament?

A. The facraments of the New Teftament are baptifm and the Lord's fupper.

Q. 94. Whatis baptifm?

A. Baptifm is a facrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, doth fignify and feal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's.

Q. 95. To whom is baptifm to be administered? A. Baptifm is not to be administered to any that are out of the vifible church, till they profefs their faith in Chrift, and obedience to him, but the infants of fuch as are members of the visible church, are to be baptized.

Q. 96. What is the Lord's fupper ?

A. The Lord's fupper is a facrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Chrift's appointment, his death is fhewed forth, and the worthy receivers are, not after à corporal and carnal manner, but by faith made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, totheir fpiritual nourishment and growth in grace.

Q. 97. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's fupper?

A. It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord's fupper, that they examine themselves, of their knowledge to difcern the Lord's body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; left coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

Q. 98. What is prayer ?

A. Prayer is an offering up of our defires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name, of Christ, with confeffion of our fins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.

Q. 99. What rule hath God given for our die rection in prayer?

A. The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer, but the fpecial rule of direction is