A plain and profitable exposition of, and enlargement upon, the church-catechism by way of questions and answers for the more ample instruction of the more adult children and other elderly persons that need it, and divided into so many parts as there are Lords-days by Simon Ford ...

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A plain and profitable exposition of, and enlargement upon, the church-catechism by way of questions and answers for the more ample instruction of the more adult children and other elderly persons that need it, and divided into so many parts as there are Lords-days by Simon Ford ...
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Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.
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London :: Printed by T.B. for T. Sawbridge,
1686.
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Lord's day 32.

Q. Which is the sixth Commandment?

A. Thou shalt not kill, or Thou shalt do no murder.

Q. What are the Duties required in this Com∣mandment?

A. It requires all due care, in all Persons, to preserve their own, n and others o lives: and to nourish in themselves, those inward affections and gracious dispositions, that tend thereunto. p

Q. What are the Sins forbidden in this Command∣ment?

A. All actual Murder, committed either on our selves, q or others; r and whatever, thoughts, words, or actions, tending thereunto.

2. Together with all outragious Passions, or vicious Dispositions of any kind, which occasion or encline Men to the Commission of this foul sin. s

Q. Is it in no case lawful to take away anothers Life?

A. It is only Lawful in three cases.

1. In the way of publick Justice, for capital Offences. t

2. In lawful War, and in heat of Battle. u

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3. And for our own necessary defence; when the danger of our own lives is otherwise unavoid∣able. w

Q. Which is the seventh Commandment?

A. Thou shalt not commit Adultery.

Q. What Duties are required in this Command∣ment?

A. 1. The living chastly our selves; x and preserving (as much as in us lies) the chastity of all others: y whether in single Estate, or Ma∣trimony. z

2. And the ordering of our thoughts, looks, a Speeches, b Gestures, Behaviour, c and Apparrel, d so, as may most promote it.

Q. And what are the Sins here forbidden?

A. All sorts of lasciviousness, wantonness, or fleshly uncleanness; by which our own bodies, or the bodies of others (whether married, e or single Persons,) f are any way defiled. g

2. All Thoughts, Looks, h Speeches, i Ge∣stures, k Apparel, l and Behaviour, m that tend to the begetting or exciting of filthy incli∣nations, either in our selves, or others.

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