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44 The Larger Catechiſm. Q. That are the Sims forbidden in the Fourth Com- mandment ? A. The Sins forbidden in the Fourth Command- ment are, all Omiſſions of the Duties required g, all careleſs, negligent and unprofitable performing of them, and being weary of them b; all profaning the Day by Idleness. and doing that which is in it- ſelf ſinful i, and by all nedleſſ Works, Word, and Thoughts, about our worldly Employments and Re- creations k. g Ezek. xxii, 26, h Acts xx 7.9 Ezek. xxxii. 30, 31, 32. Amos viii. 5. Mal i.13. i Ezek. xxiii. 38. k Jer. xvii. 24. 27. Iſa. lviii. 13. Q. What are the Reaſonſ annexed to the fourth Com- mandment, the more enſorce it? A. The Reaſons annexed to the Fourth Command- ment the more to enforce it, are taken from the E- quity of it, God allowing us ſix Days of ſeven for our own Affairs, and reſerving but one for himſelf in theſe words. [Six Days ſhalt thou labour and do all thy Work ] from God's challenging a ſpecial Pro- priety in that Day,[The ſeventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God m] from the Example of God, who in ſix Days made Heaven and Earth, the Sea and all that in them it, 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 n.] I Exod. xx. 9. m Exod. xx. 10. n Exod. xv. II. Q. Why is the word Remember ſet in the Begin- ing the Fourth Commandment? A. The Word Remember is ſet in the Beginning of the Fourth Commandment o, partry becauſe of the great Benefit of Remembering it, we being thereby helped