Westminster Shorter Catechism
Copywork for questions 51 to 60
Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 51
Name ____________ Date ________What is forbidden in the second commandment?
The second commandment forbiddeth the worshiping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in his word.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 52
Name ____________ Date ________What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God’s sovereignty over us, his propriety in us, and the zeal he hath to his own worship.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 53
Name ____________ Date ________Which is the third commandment?
The third commandment is, 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.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 54
Name ____________ Date ________What is required in the third commandment?
The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, word and works.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 55
Name ____________ Date ________What is forbidden in the third commandment?
The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 56
Name ____________ Date ________What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
The reason annexed to the third commandment is that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 57
Name ____________ Date ________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 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 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.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 58
Name ____________ Date ________What is required in the fourth commandment?
The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 59
Name ____________ Date ________Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath.
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Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 60
Name ____________ Date ________How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
The sabbath is 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 the public and private exercises of God’s worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.
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