The Ten Commandments Expounded: what changed

What special things are we to consider in Which is the ten commandments? We are to consider, in first commandment? The ten commandments, the preface, the substance of the commandments themselves, and several reasons annexed to some of them, the more to enforce them.first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

What is required in the preface first commandment? The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the ten commandments? The preface to the ten commandments is contained in these words, I am the Lord thy only true God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Wherein God manifesteth his sovereignty, as being JEHOVAH, the eternal, immutable, and almighty God; having his being in and of himself, and giving being to all his words and works: and that he is a God in covenant, as with Israel of old, so with all his people; who, as he brought them out of their bondage in Egypt, so he delivers us from our spiritual thraldom; and that therefore we are bound to take him for our God; alone, and to keep all his commandments.worship and glorify him accordingly.

What is forbidden in the sum of first commandment? The four commandments which contain our duty to first commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God The sum of the four commandments containing our duty to as God, is, to love the Lord and our God; with all our heart, and with all our soul, the giving of that worship and with all our strength, and with all our mind.glory to any other, which is due to him alone.

Which is What are we specially taught by these words, 'before me', in the first commandment? These words, before me, in the first commandment teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is Thou shall have no much displeased with, the sin of having any other gods before me.God.

What are Which is the duties required second commandment? The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the first commandment? The duties required earth beneath, or that is in the first commandment are, water under the knowing 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 acknowledging fourth generation of God to be the only true God, them that hate me; and our God; showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and to worship and glorify him accordingly, by thinking, meditating, remembering, highly esteeming, honoring, adoring, choosing, loving, desiring, fearing of him; believing him; trusting, hoping, delighting, rejoicing in him; being zealous for him; calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks, and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man; being careful in all things to please him, and sorrowful when in anything he is offended; and walking humbly with him.keep my commandments.

What are the sins forbidden is required in the first second commandment? The sins forbidden in second commandment requireth the first commandment are, atheism, in denying or not having a God; Idolatry, in having or worshiping more gods than one, or any with or instead of the true God; the not having receiving, observing, and avouching him for God, keeping pure and our God; the omission or neglect of anything due to him, required in this commandment; ignorance, forgetfulness, misapprehensions, false opinions, unworthy and wicked thoughts of him; bold and curious searching into his secrets; entire, all profaneness, hatred of God; self-love, self-seeking, and all other inordinate and immoderate setting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part; vain credulity, unbelief, heresy, misbelief, distrust, despair, incorrigibleness, and insensibleness under judgments, hardness of heart, pride, presumption, carnal security, tempting of God; using unlawful means, and trusting in lawful means; carnal delights and joys; corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal; lukewarmness, and deadness in the things of God; estranging ourselves, and apostatizing from God; praying, or giving any such religious worship to saints, angels, or any other creatures; all compacts and consulting with the devil, and hearkening to ordinances as God hath appointed in his suggestions; making men the lords of our faith and conscience; slighting and despising God and his commands; resisting and grieving of his Spirit, discontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us; and ascribing the praise of any good we either are, have, or can do, to fortune, idols, ourselves, or any other creature.Word.

What are we specially taught by these words before me is forbidden in the first second commandment? These words before me, The second commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or before my face, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh special notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God: that so it may be an argument to dissuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocation: as also to persuade us to do as way not appointed in his sight,: Whatever we do in his service.Word.

Which is What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment? The reasons annexed to the second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is are, God's sovereignty over us, his propriety in heaven above, or that is in us, and the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself zeal he hath 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 shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.his own worship.

What are Which is the duties required in the second third commandment? The duties required in the second third commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his word; particularly prayer and thanksgiving in is, Thou shalt not take the name of Christ; the reading, preaching, and hearing of Lord thy God in vain; for the word; the administration and receiving of the sacraments; church government and discipline; the ministry and maintenance thereof; religious fasting; swearing by the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name of God, and vowing unto him: as also the disapproving, detesting, opposing, all false worship; and, according to each one's place and calling, removing it, and all monuments of idolatry.in vain.

What are the sins forbidden is required in the second third commandment? The sins forbidden in third commandment requireth the second commandment are, all devising, counseling, commanding, using, holy and anywise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself; tolerating a false religion; the making any representation reverend use of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever; all worshiping of it, or God in it or by it; the making of any representation of feigned deities, God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and all worship of them, or service belonging to them; all superstitious devices, corrupting the worship of God, adding to it, or taking from it, whether invented and taken up of ourselves, or received by tradition from others, though under the title of antiquity, custom, devotion, good intent, or any other pretense whatsoever; simony; sacrilege; all neglect, contempt, hindering, and opposing the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.works.

What are is forbidden in the reasons annexed to the second third commandment? The more to enforce it? The reasons annexed to the second third commandment the more to enforce it, contained in these words, For I the Lord thy forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby 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 commandments; are, besides God's sovereignty over us, and propriety in us, his fervent zeal for his own worship, and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom; accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations; and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.maketh himself known.

Which What is the reason annexed to the third commandment? The reason annexed to the third commandment is, Thou shalt not take that however the name breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord thy our God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh suffer them to escape his name in vain.righteous judgment.

What Which is required in the third fourth commandment? The third fourth commandment requires, is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, 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 manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the name of God, his titles, attributes, ordinances, Lord made heaven and earth, the word, sacraments, prayer, oaths, vows, lots, his works, sea, and whatsoever else there all that in them is, whereby he makes himself known, be holily and reverently used in thought, meditation, word, rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and writing; by an holy profession, and Answerable conversation, to the glory of God, and the good of ourselves, and others.hallowed it.

What are the sins forbidden is required in the third fourth commandment? The sins forbidden fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required; and the abuse of it his Word; expressly one whole day in an ignorant, vain, irreverent, profane, superstitious, or wicked mentioning, or otherwise using his titles, attributes, ordinances, or works, by blasphemy, perjury; all sinful cursings, oaths, vows, and lots; violating of our oaths and vows, if lawful; and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful; murmuring and quarreling at, curious prying into, and misapplying of God's decrees and providences; misinterpreting, misapplying, or any way perverting the word, or any part of it, seven, to profane jests, curious or unprofitable Questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines; abusing it, the creatures, or anything contained under the name of God, be a holy sabbath to charms, or sinful lusts and practices; the maligning, scorning, reviling, or any wise opposing of God's truth, grace, and ways; making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends; being ashamed of it, or a shame to it, by unconformable, unwise, unfruitful, and offensive walking, or backsliding from it.himself.

What reasons are annexed Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath? From the beginning of the world to the third commandment? resurrection of Christ, God appointed the reasons annexed seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the third commandment, in these words, end of the Lord thy God, and, For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain, are, because he world, which is the Lord and our God, therefore his name is not to be profaned, or any way abused by us; especially because he will be so far from acquitting and sparing the transgressors of this commandment, as that he will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment, albeit many such escape the censures and punishments of men.Christian sabbath.

Which is the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day How is the sabbath of to be sanctified? The Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that sabbath is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in them the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.mercy.

What is required forbidden in the fourth commandment? The fourth commandment requires of all men forbiddeth the sanctifying omission or keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his word, expressly one whole day in seven; which was the seventh from the beginning careless performance of the world to the resurrection of Christ, duties required, and the first profaning the day of the week ever since, and so to continue to the end of the world; by idleness, or doing that which is the Christian sabbath, and in the New Testament called The Lord's day.itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.

How is What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment? The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath or the Lord's day.to be sanctified? The sabbath or Lord's day is to be sanctified by an holy resting all the day, not only from such works as are at all times sinful, but even from such worldly employments and recreations as are on other days lawful; and making it our delight to spend the whole time (except so much of it as is to betaken up in works of necessity and mercy) in the public and private exercises of God's worship: and, to that end, we are to prepare our hearts, and with such foresight, diligence, and moderation, to dispose and seasonably dispatch our worldly business, that we may be the more free and fit for the duties of that day.

Why Which is the charge of keeping fifth commandment? The sabbath more specially directed to governors of families, fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and other superiors? thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the charge of keeping land which the sabbath is more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors, because they are bound not only to keep it themselves, but to see that it be observed by all those that are under their charge; and because they are prone ofttimes to hinder them by employments of their own.Lord thy God giveth thee.

What are the sins forbidden is required in the fourth fifth commandment? The sins forbidden in fifth commandment requireth the fourth commandment are, all omissions of preserving the honor, and performing the duties, required, all careless, negligent, belonging to everyone in their several places and unprofitable performing of them, and being weary of them; all profaning the day by idleness, and doing that which is in itself sinful; and by all needless works, words, and thoughts, about our worldly employments and recreations.relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

What are is forbidden in the reasons annexed to the fourth fifth commandment? The more fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing anything against, the honor and duty which belongeth to enforce it? The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it, are taken from the equity of it, God allowing us six days of seven for our own affairs, everyone in their several places and reserving but one for himself, in these words, Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: from God's challenging a special propriety in that day, The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: from the example of God, who in six days made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: and from that blessing which God put upon that day, not only in sanctifying it to be a day for his service, but in ordaining it to be a means of blessing to us in our sanctifying it; Wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.relations.

Why What is the word Remember set in reason annexed to the beginning of the fourth fifth commandment? The word Remember reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, set in the beginning a promise of the fourth commandment, partly, because of the great benefit of remembering long life and prosperity (as far as it we being thereby helped in our preparation to keep it, and, in keeping it, better to keep all the rest of the commandments, and to continue a thankful remembrance of the two great benefits of creation and redemption, which contain a short abridgment of religion; and partly, because we are very ready to forget it, shall serve for that there is less light of nature for it, and yet it restraineth our natural liberty in things at other times lawful; that it comesthbut 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 it; and that Satan with his instruments much labor to blot out the God's glory and even the memory of it, their own good) to bring in all irreligion and impiety.such as keep this commandment.

What Which is the sum of sixth commandment? The six commandments which contain our duty to man? The sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man sixth commandment is, to love our neighbor as ourselves, and to do to others what we would have them to do to us.Thou shalt not kill.

Which What is required in the fifth sixth commandment? The fifth sixth commandment is, Honor thy father requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.life of others.

Who are meant by father and mother What is forbidden in the fifth sixth commandment? By father and mother, in The fifth sixth commandment are meant, not only natural parents, but all superiors in age and gifts; and especially such as, by God's ordinance, are over us in place forbiddeth the taking away of authority, whether in family, church, our own life, or commonwealth.the life of our neighbour, unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto.

Why are superiors styled Father and Mother? Superiors are styled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations; and to work inferiors to a greater willingness and cheerfulness in performing their duties to their superiors, as to their parents.Which is the seventh commandment? The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

What is required in the general scope of the fifth seventh commandment? The general scope seventh commandment requireth the preservation of the fifth commandment is, the performance of those duties which we mutually owe our own and our neighbour's chastity, in our several relations, as inferiors, superiors, or equals.heart, speech, and behavior.

What is forbidden in the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors? seventh commandment? The honor which inferiors owe to their superiors is, seventh commandment forbiddeth all due reverence in heart, word, unchaste thoughts, words, and behavior; prayer and thanksgiving for them; imitation of their virtues and graces; willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels; due submission to their corrections; fidelity to, defense and maintenance of their persons and authority, according to their several ranks, and the nature of their places; bearing with their infirmities, and covering them in love, that so they may be an honor to them and to their government.actions.

What are Which is the sins of inferiors against their superiors? eighth commandment? The sins of inferiors against their superiors are, all neglect of the duties required toward them; envying at, contempt of, and rebellion against, their persons and places, in their lawful counsels, commands, and corrections; cursing, mocking, and all such refractory and scandalous carriage, as proves a shame and dishonor to them and their government.eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.

What is required in the eighth commandment? The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth and outward estate of superiors towards their inferiors? It is required of superiors, according to that power they receive from God, ourselves and that relation wherein they stand, to love, pray for, and bless their inferiors; to instruct, counsel, and admonish them; countenancing, commending, and rewarding such as do well; and discountenancing, reproving, and chastising such as do ill; protecting, and providing for them all things necessary for soul and body: and by grave, wise, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God, honor to themselves, and so to preserve that authority which God hath put upon them.others.

What are the sins of superiors? The sins of superiors are, besides the neglect of the duties required of them, an inordinate seeking of themselves, their own glory, ease, profit, or pleasure; commanding things unlawful, or not is forbidden in the power of inferiors to perform; counseling, encouraging, eighth commandment? The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth, or favoring them in that which is evil; dissuading, discouraging, may, unjustly hinder our own, or discountenancing them in that which is good; correcting them unduly; careless exposing, our neighbour's, wealth or leaving them to wrong, temptation, and danger; provoking them to wrath; or any way dishonoring themselves, or lessening their authority, by an unjust, indiscreet, rigorous, or remiss behavior.outward estate.

What are Which is the duties of equals? ninth commandment? The duties of equals are, to regard the dignity and worth of each other, in giving honor to go one before another; and to rejoice in each other's gifts and advancement, as their own.ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

What are is required in the sins ninth commandment? The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of equals? The sins truth between man and man, and of equals are, besides the neglect of the duties required, the undervaluing of the worth, envying the gifts, grieving at the advancement of prosperity one of another; our own and usurping preeminence one over another.our neighbour's good name, especially in witness bearing.

What is forbidden in the reason annexed to the fifth ninth commandment? The more ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to enforce it? The reason annexed truth, or injurious to the fifth commandment, in these words, That thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, is an express promise of long life and prosperity, as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their our own, or our neighbour's, good to all such as keep this commandment.name.

Which is the sixth tenth commandment? The sixth tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

What are the duties is required in the sixth tenth commandment? The duties required in the sixth tenth commandment are, all careful studies, requireth full contentment with our own condition, with a right and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life of ourselves and others by resisting all thoughts and purposes, subduing all passions, and avoiding all occasions, temptations, and practices, which tend to the unjust taking away the life of any; by just defense thereof against violence, patient bearing of the hand of God, quietness of mind, cheerfulness charitable frame of spirit a sober use of meat, drink, physic, sleep, labor, toward our neighbour, and recreations; by charitable thoughts, love, compassion, meekness, gentleness, kindness; peaceable, mild and courteous speeches and behavior; forbearance, readiness to be reconciled, patient bearing and forgiving of injuries, and requiting good for evil; comforting and succoring the distressed, and protecting and defending the innocent.all that is his.

What are the sins is forbidden in the sixth tenth commandment? The sins forbidden in tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the sixth commandment are, good of our neighbour, and all taking away the life of ourselves, or of others, except in case of public justice, lawful war, or necessary defense; the neglecting or withdrawing the lawful inordinate motions and necessary means of preservation of life; sinful anger, hatred, envy, desire of revenge; all excessive passions, distracting cares; immoderate use of meat, drink, labor, and recreations; provoking words, oppression, quarreling, striking, wounding, and: Whatsoever else tends affections to the destruction of the life of any.anything that is his.

Which Is any man able perfectly to keep the seventh commandment? commandments of God? No mere man, since the seventh commandment fall, is Thou shalt not commit adultery.able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.

What Are all transgressions of the duties required law equally heinous? Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the seventh commandment? The duties required in the seventh commandment are, chastity in body, mind, affections, words, and behavior; and the preservation sight of it in ourselves and God than others.watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses; temperance, keeping of chaste company, modesty in apparel; marriage by those that have not the gift of continency, conjugal love, and cohabitation; diligent labor in our callings; shunning all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting temptations thereunto.

What are the sins forbidden doth every sin deserve? Every sin deserveth God's wrath and curse, both in the seventh commandment? The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, adultery, fornication, rape, incest, sodomy, this life, and all unnatural lusts; all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections; all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto; wanton looks, impudent or light behavior, immodest apparel; prohibiting of lawful, and dispensing with unlawful marriages; allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting that which is to them; entangling vows of single life, undue delay of marriage; having more wives or husbands than one at the same time; unjust divorce, or desertion; idleness, gluttony, drunkenness, unchaste company; lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays; and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.come.

Which is the eighth commandment? The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.

What are the duties required in the eighth commandment? The duties required in the eighth commandment are, truth, faithfulness, and justice in contracts and commerce between man and man; rendering to everyone his due; restitution of goods unlawfully detained from the right owners thereof; giving and lending freely, according to our abilities, and the necessities of others; moderation of our judgments, wills, and affections concerning worldly goods; a provident care and study to get, keep, use, and dispose these things which are necessary and convenient for the sustentation of our nature, and suitable to our condition; a lawful calling, and diligence in it; frugality; avoiding unnecessary lawsuits and suretyship, or other like engagements; and an endeavor, by all just and lawful means, to procure, preserve, and further the wealth and outward estate of others, as well as our own.

What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment? The sins forbidden in the eighth commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, theft, robbery, man-stealing, and receiving anything that is stolen; fraudulent dealing, false weights and measures, removing land marks, injustice and unfaithfulness in contracts between man and man, or in matters of trust; oppression, extortion, usury, bribery, vexatious lawsuits, unjust enclosures and depopulations; engrossing commodities to enhance the price; unlawful callings, and all other unjust or sinful ways of taking or withholding from our neighbor what belongs to him, or of enriching ourselves; covetousness; inordinate prizing and affecting worldly goods; distrustful and distracting cares and studies in getting, keeping, and using them; envying at the prosperity of others; as likewise idleness, prodigality, wasteful gaming; and all other ways whereby we do unduly prejudice our own outward estate, and defrauding ourselves of the due use and comfort of that estate which God hath given us.

Which is the ninth commandment? The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

What are the duties required in the ninth commandment? The duties required in the ninth commandment are, the preserving and promoting of truth between man and man, and the good name of our neighbor, as well as our own; appearing and standing for the truth; and from the heart, sincerely, freely, clearly, and fully, speaking the truth, and only the truth, in matters of judgment and justice, and in all other things whatsoever; a charitable esteem of our neighbors; loving, desiring, and rejoicing in their good name; sorrowing for, and covering of their infirmities; freely acknowledging of their gifts and graces, defending their innocency; a ready receiving of a good report, and unwillingness to admit of an evil report, concerning them; discouraging talebearers, flatterers, and slanderers; love and care of our own good name, and defending it when need requireth; keeping of lawful promises; studying and practicing of whatsoever things are true, honest, lovely, and of good report.

What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment? The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our neighbors, as well as our own, especially in public judicature; giving false evidence, suborning false witnesses, wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause, outfacing and overbearing the truth; passing unjust sentence, calling evil good, and good evil; rewarding the wicked according to the work of the righteous, and the righteous according to the work of the wicked; forgery, concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause, and holding our peace when iniquity calleth for either a reproof from ourselves, or complaint to others; speaking the truth unseasonably, or maliciously to a wrong end, or perverting it to a wrong meaning, or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice; speaking untruth, lying, slandering, backbiting, detracting, tale bearing, whispering, scoffing, reviling, rash, harsh, and partial censuring; misconstructing intentions, words, and actions; flattering, vainglorious boasting, thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly of ourselves or others; denying the gifts and graces of God; aggravating smaller faults; hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession; unnecessary discovering of infirmities; raising false rumors, receiving and countenancing evil reports, and stopping our ears against just defense; evil suspicion; envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any, endeavoring or desiring to impair it, rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy; scornful contempt, fond admiration; breach of lawful promises; neglecting such things as are of good report, and practicing, or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering: What we can in others, such things as procure an ill name.

Which is the tenth commandment? The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

What are the duties required in the tenth commandment? The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition, and such a charitable frame of the whole soul toward our neighbor, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his.

What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment? The sins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, discontentment with our own estate; envying and grieving at the good of our neighbor, together with all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.