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The Larger Catechiſm. 29 unconceivable Joys k, made perfectly holy and hap- py both in Body and Soul, in the Company of in- numerable Saints and holy Angels I, but eſpecially in the immediate Vision and Fruition of God the Fa- ther of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and of the Holy Spi- rit, to all Eternity m. And this is the perfect and full Communion, which the Members of the invi- ſible Church ſhall enjoy with Chriſt in Glory, at the Reſurrection and Day of Judgment. e I Theſſ. iv. 17. f Mat xxv. 33. & x. 32 g I Cor. vi. 2,3 h Mat. xx. 34446. i Eph. v. 27. Rev. xiv. 13. k Pſal. xvi. 11. I Heb. xii. 22, 23. m I John iii. 2. I Cor. xiii. 12. I Theſſ. iv. 17, 18.

Haeving ſeen what the Scriptures principally teacher to believe concerning God, it follows to confider what they require as the Duty of Man.

Q. WHAT is the Duty that God requireth of Man ? A. The Duty which God requireth of Man, Is Obedience to his revealed Will n. n Rom. xii, I, 2. Micah vi. 8. I Sam. xv. 22, Q. What did God at first reveals Man as the Rule of his obedience ? A. The Rule of Obedience revealed to Man in the State of innocince, and to all Mankind in him, beſides a ſpecial Command, not to eat of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, was the Moral Law o Gen. i. 26, 27. Rom. ii. 14,15. & x. 5. Gen. iii 17. Q. What is the Moral Law ? A. The Moral Law is the Declaration of the Will of God to Mankind, directing and binding every one to perſonal, perfect, and perpetual Conformity and Obedience