saying, _I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the Land of
Egypt, out of the House of Bondage._
_Quest._ Which is the First?
Answ. _Thou shalt have no other gods before me._
_Quest._ Which is the Second?
Answ. _Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image, or any likeness
of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath,
or that is in the Water under the Earth: thou shalt not bow down thy
self to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the Iniquity 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 and keep my Commandements._
_Quest_. Which is the Third?
Answ. _Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain_.
_Quest_. Which is the Fourth?
Answ. _Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, six days shalt thou
labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattel, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six dayes the Lord made
Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day, and hallowed
it_.
_Quest_. Which is the Fifth?
Answ. _Honour thy father and thy Mother, that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee_.
_Quest._ Which is the Sixth?
Answ. _Thou shalt not kill._
_Quest._ Which is the Seventh?
Answ. _Thou shalt not Commit Adultery._
_Quest._. Which is the Eighth?
Answ. _Thou shalt not steal._
_Quest._ Which is the Ninth?
Answ. _Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour._
_Quest._ Which is the Tenth?
Answ. _Thou shalt not Covet thy Neighbour's House, thou shalt not Covet
thy Neighbours Wife, nor his Man-servant, nor his Maid-servant, nor his
Oxe, nor his Ass, nor any thing that is thy Neighbour's._
Quest. _Are you bound to keep all these Commandments?_
_Answ._ YES.
Quest. _Are you bound to keep them in Thought, Word, and Deed?_
_Answ._ YES.
Quest. _How are you bound to keep them?_
_Answ._ By my Baptism and by the Word of God.
Quest. _Are you able to keep them of your self?_
_Answ._ NO.
Quest. _Why so?_
_Answ._ Because I was conceived and
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