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The Larger Catechiſm. 45 helped in our Preparation to keep it p, and, in keep- ing it, better to keep all the reſt of the Command- ments, and to continue thankful remembrance of the two great Benefits of Creation and Redempti- on, which contain a ſhort Abridgement of Religion and partly becauſe we are very ready to forget it ſ, for that there is leſs light of Nature for it, and yet it reſtraineth our natural Liberty in Tings at other Times lawful us that it cometh but once in fever Days, and many worldly Baſineſſes come between and too often take off our Minds from thinking of it, either to prepare for it, or to ſanctify it w ; and that Satan, with his Inſtruments, much labour to blot out the Glory, and even the Memory of it, to bring in all irreligion and impiety x. o Exod. xx. 8. p Exod. xvi. 23. Luke xxiii. 54, 56. with Mark xv. 42 Neb, xii. 19. q Pſal. xvii. Title, with v. 13. 14. Ezek, XX. 18, 19, 20. r den. ii. 2, 3. Pſal. cxviii. 22, 24. Acts iv. 10, 11, Rev. I. 10. f Ezek. xxii. 26. t Neh. ix. 14. v Exod. xxxiv. 21. w Deut. v. 14, 15. Amos viii. 5. x Lam. i. 7. Jer. xvii. 21, 22, 23. Neb. xiii. 15, to 23. Q. What is the sum of the Six Commandments, which contain our Duty to Man ? A. The Sum of the Six Commandments, which contain our Duty to Man, is, To love our Neigh- bout, as ourſelves y, and in do to others what we would have them to do to us. y Mat. xxii. 39. z Mat. vii. 12. Q. Which is the Fifth Commandment? A. The Fifth Commandment is, Honour thy Fa- ther and thy Mother that the Day may belong up- son the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee a. a Exodus xx. 12 Q. Who are meant by Father and Mother in the Fifth Commandment ? A. Ву