Sunday

Day 74: Reasons Annexed to the Second Commandment

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q. 52
Larger Catechism Q. 110


Shorter Catechism
Q. 49. Which is the second commandment?
A. The second commandment is, "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 commandments [p]. "

Q. 52. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God’s sovereignty over us [t], his propriety in us [v], and the zeal he hath to his own worship [w].

[t] Psalm 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Ver.3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.Ver.6 O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.

[v] Psalm 45:11 So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

[w] Exodus 34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.Ver.14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.


Larger Catechism
Q. 110. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?
A. The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, 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 commandments [c]; are, besides God’s sovereignty over us, and propriety in us [d], his fervent zeal for his own worship [e], and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom [f]; accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations [g]; and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations [h].

[c] Exodus 20:5-6

[d] Psalm 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Revelation 15:3-4 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Ver.4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

[e] Exodus 34:13-14 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: Ver.14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

[f] 1 Corinthians 10:20-22 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ver.21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Ver.22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Jeremiah 7:18-20 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.Ver.19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Ver.20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Ezekiel 16:26-27 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Ver.27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Deuteronomy 32:16-20 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. Ver.17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Ver.18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. Ver.19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. Ver.20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

[g] Hosea 2:2-4 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Ver.3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Ver.4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

[h] Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!


End of Lesson, Day 74


Scenes from Coming Attractions

Shorter Catechism
Q. 49. Which is the second commandment?
Q. 50. What is required in the second commandment?
Q. 51. What is forbidden in the second commandment?
Q. 52. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
Chapter XXI Of Religious Worship, (sections 1-2)
Chapter XX Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty Of Conscience
WCF 21.5 + WLC 153ff - The Preaching of the Word
Chapter XXVII Of the Sacraments
Chapter XXVIII Of Baptism
Chapter XXIX Of the Lord's Supper
Chapter XXVI Of the Communion Of Saints (1-3)
Q. 53. Which is the third commandment?
Q. 54. What is required in the third commandment?
Q. 55. What is forbidden in the third commandment?
Q. 56. What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
Chapter XXII Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
Q. 57. Which is the fourth commandment?
Q. 58. What is required in the fourth commandment?
Q. 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
Q. 60. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
Q. 61. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
Q. 62. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
Chapter XXI [Of Religious Worship] and the Sabbath Days
Q. 63. Which is the fifth commandment?
Q. 64. What is required in the fifth commandment?
Q. 65. What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
Q. 66. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
Chapter XXIII Of the Civil Magistrate
Chapter XXV Of the Church
Chapter XXX Of Church Censures
Chapter XXXI Of Synods and Councils
Q. 67. Which is the sixth commandment?
Q. 68. What is required in the sixth commandment?
Q. 69. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
Q. 70. Which is the seventh commandment?
Q. 71. What is required in the seventh commandment?
Q. 72. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
Chapter XXIV Of Marriage and Divorce
Q. 73. Which is the eighth commandment?
Q. 74. What is required in the eighth commandment?
Q. 75. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
Q. 76. Which is the ninth commandment?
Q. 77. What is required in the ninth commandment?
Q. 78. What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
Q. 79. Which is the tenth commandment?
Q. 80. What is required in the tenth commandment?
Q. 81. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
James 4:2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
James 5:1 Come now, you rich, 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, 16 The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much
WLC Exposition of the Lord's Prayer
WCF 21:3-4

Communion of Saints: Larger Catechism 82ff.
Chapter XXXII Of the State Of Men after Death, and Of the Resurrection Of the Dead
Chapter XXXIII Of the Last Judgment


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