A. To take away what is another man's; to receive, or conceal any stolen goods.

Q. What is required of us in this commandment?

A. To be just and honest in all our dealings, and to give every one his due.

Q. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment ?

A. Every unlawful or indirect way of taking or withholding from any person, that which justly belongs to him.

Q. Are there not other sins forbidden under this commandment?

A. Yes extortion, oppression, detaining the wages of the labourer or servant, unlawfulness, running in debt beyond our ability to pay, or refusing to pay just debts, as soon as we are able; using false weights and measures; deceits in bargains and contracts; resisting human laws to screen wicked practices.

. Are there not more ways of breaking this commandment?

A. Yes: All cheating and uncharitableness, grinding the faces of the poor; that is, by using their labour for less than its value, &c. By depriving ourselves or our families of their support, through our extravagance, inattention, and idleness. Which is the ninth commandment?

A. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

What are you taught in this commandment? A. To keep my tongue from evil-speaking, lying, and slandering.

What do you mean by slandering?

A. The hurting our neighbour's good name, by raising or spreading any ill reports of him. Q. Who were struck dead for lying? A. Ananias and Sapphira.

Q. Whence came the wicked practice of lying? A. From the Devil; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Q. What will be the punishment of liars in the other world?

A. They will have their part in the lake that burueth with fire and brimstone.

Q. What other duties are forbidden in the ninth commandment?

A. All manner of lying or inducing other persons to lie, &c. Slandering, evil-speaking, backbiting, tale-bearing, whispering and censure, or any thing that may serve to injure the character of any person, and this may be done by a wink, a nod, a look, and even by silence as effectually as by the worst of expressions.

Q. Which is the tenth commandment?

A. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, &c.

Q. What is meant by not coveting?

A. Not eagerly desiring, or being too fond of other men's goods.

Q. What virtue is necessary to prevent this? A. Contentedness, or the being satisfied with such things as we have.

Q. What should you learn to do in order to keep this commandment?

A. To labour diligently to get my own ling, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.

Q. What may you observe from God's forbidding all covetous desires of the heart?

A. That God knows all our thoughts, as well as our outward actions, and will judge for them at the last day.

Q. What other sins are forbidden in the tenth commandment?

A. Every inordinate desire of wealth, greediness in getting, and in keeping a too great anxiety about things of this world, also cherishing the desire of y sinful lust.

SECT. IX.

Of the Lord's Prayer.

Q. Are you able of yourself to keep the commandments of God?

A. Not by my own strength alone.

Q. What help do you stand in need of?
A. The grace of God.

Q. What do you mean by the grace of God?
A. The assistance of his Holy Spirit.
Q. How are you to seek for God's grace?
A. By diligent prayer.

Q. What is the first thing you should do when you rise in the morning?

A. Pray to God to keep me from all sin and mischief, and to vouchsafe me his blessing the rest of the day.

Q. What is the last thing you should do every night before you go to bed?

A. Pray to God to keep me from the dangers of the night.

Q. Which is the best of all your prayers?
A. The Lord's prayer.

Q. By what means is the especial grace of God to be obtained?

A. By diligent prayer at all times.

Q. Is it then necessary that we should call upon God at all times?

A. It is our duty to be very frequent in our addresses to the throne of grace, to be constan at the house of God; to pray with the family in which we are; never to omit morning and evening prayer, and in leisure moments to lift up our souls in pious ejaculation to God.

Q. Ought we not to be careful in what words we express our desires to God?

A. As to private concerns the Almighty looks to the heart more than the very words; but in all solemn, and especially public devotions, great care ought to be taken as to the manner and matter of the prayer.

Q.Is there any prayer which will suit all sorts of persons, and in all conditions of life?

A. Yes: Our Lord himself has given us a prayer which includes every thing necessary for mortals, both here and hereafter. In which every praise is shewn, every desire made known, every want expressed, every grace prayed for, every protection requested, every safety sought for, both of soul and body.

Q. Why do you call it the Lord's prayer?
A. Because our Lord Jesus made this prayer
Q. Who is your heavenly Father?

A. God Almighty.

Q. Why do you call God your Father,?

A. Because he is able and willing to give us all the good things we ask Him for.

Q. Why do you say our Father, and not my Father?

A. We are taught to pray for our brethren, that is for all mankind and not for ourselves alone.

Q. Why do you add which art in Heaven ? Is not God every where ?

A. Yes: God is every where present, and near to every one of us.

Q. How then may He be said to be in Heaven? A. Because Heaven is the place where He most shews forth His majesty and glory,

SECT. X.

Q. What is meant by hallowing God's name? A. Using the name of God in the most holy and reverent manner, and highly esteeming all things that belong to him.

Q. What are those things that we are to esteem highly because they belong to God?

A. His word and Sacraments, His Day, His House, and Ministers.

Q. What do you mean when you pray, Thy Kingdom come ?

A. I mean three things.

Q. What do you mean first?

A. That God would convert all men to be Christians.

Q. What do you mean secondly?

A. That God would so rule in our hearts, that we may worship and serve Him as we ought to do. Q. What is the third thing vou mean?