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 Q. What’s taught by what this preface doth record? A. That, since Jehovah is the only Lord, And our God and Redeemer, we are bound To keep unerringly his precepts sound a. a Deut- xi. 1. Luke i. 74, 75.

Q. Which is the first commandment in the code? A. Before me thou shalt have no other God.

Q. And what doth it require? To know a, and own Jehovah to be God the Lord alone. Aud our God also b, and as such to give Him worship due so long as we shall live c. a 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. b Deut. xxvi. 17. c Matt. iv. 10.

Q. And what doth it forbid? A. Or to deny a, Or not give glory due to the Most High, As God alone b, and our God c, or bestow On ought that worship which to him we owe d. a Psal. xiv. i. b Rom. i. 20, 21. c Psal. Ixxxi. 11. d Rom. i. 25

Q. What do these words, before me, chiefly teach? A. That all things are within Jehovah’s reach; And that his judgments he at last shall pour On all who other gods than him adore a. a Psalm xliv. 20, 21.

Q. Which is the second precept of the law? A. No graven image thou shalt make, nor draw Likeness of ought, whatever it may be, That doth inhabit heav’n, or earth, or sea; To them do any service shalt not thou, Nor worship them, nor down before them bow; For I, the Lord thy God, a jealous King, Will fathers’ sins upon their children bring, Ev’n to the third and fourth succeeding race Of them that hate me; and bestow my grace To many thousands who me love and serve, And from my righteous statutes never swerve.

Q. And what doth this command of us require? A. T’accept, observe a, keep pure, and quite entire,