The Marrow of Modern Divinity

sentation and Petition in all points; and so much the rather, that we have already observed the sad fruits, and bad improvement made of the Assembly's deed, therein complained of

These answers, contained in this and the sixteen preceeding pages, (viz. of the manuscript given in) are subscribed at Edinburgh, March 12th, 1722, by us,

JAMES HOG,
THOMAS BOSTON,
JOHN WILLIAMSON,
JAMES KID,

GABRIEL WILSON,
EBENEZER ERSKINE,
RALPH ERSKINE,
JAMES WARLAW,

HENRY DAVIDSON,
JAMES BATHGATE,
WILLIAM HUNTER,

Minister of the Gospel at

Carnock.

Etterick.
Innerask.
Queensferry.

Maxton.
Portmoak.

Dumfermline.
Galashiels.

Orwel.
Lillisleaf.

N. B. Mr. John Bonar, Minister of the Gospel at Torphichen, being detained by indisposition, could neither attend when the Queries were given, nor the Answers returned.

OF PART II.

IGNORANT men confine the meaning of the ten com-

mandments into a very narrow compass,

The ten commandments are but an epitome of the

law of God,

Six rules for the right expounding of the ten com-
mandments,

The sum of the first commandment, and what du-

ties are required in it,

What sins are forbidden in the first commandment,

Examination of the heart by the first commandment,

Wherein the first and second commandments differ,

Duties required in the second commandment,

Sins forbidden in the second commandment,

What the worship of God is,

The spiritual worship of God,

Examination of the heart by the sec. commandment,

Wherein the second and third commandments differ,

with the sum of the third commandment,

Duties required in the third commandment,

Sins forbidden in the third commandment,

Examination of the heart and life by the third com-

mandment,

Difference between the third and fourth command.

ments, with the sum of the fourth,

Duties required in the fourth commandment,

Sins forbidden in the fourth commandment,

Examination of the heart and life by the fourth com-
mandment,

The sum of the fifth commandment,

The duty of children towards their parents,

The duty of parents towards their children,

The duty of servants towards their masters,

The duty of masters towards their servants,

The duty of wives towards their husbands,

The duty of husbands towards their wives,

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ib.

ib.

The duty of subjects towards their magistrates,

The duty of magistrates towards their subjects,

The duty of people towards their ministers,

The duty of ministers towards their people,

The duty of equals,

Examination of the heart and life by the fifth com-
mandment,

Sins forbidden in the sixth commandment,

The sum of the sixth commandment,

Duties required in the sixth commandment,

Examination of the heart and life by the sixth com-

mandment,

The sum of the seventh commandment,

Sins forbidden in the seventh commandment,

Duties required in the seventh commandment,

Examination of the heart and life by the seventh
commandment,

The sum of the eighth commandment,

Sins forbidden in the eighth commandment,

Duties required in the eighth commandment,

Examination of the heart and life by the eighth com-
mandment,

The sum of the ninth commandment,

Sins forbidden in the ninth commandment,

Duties required in the ninth commandment,

Examination of the heart and life by the ninth com-

mandment,

The sum of the tenth commandment,

What is forbidden in the tenth commandment,

What is required in the tenth commandment,

The examination of the heart by the tenth com-
mandment,

The Lord requireth perfect obedience to all the ten

PAGE.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

No man keepeth the law perfectly,

340

The Lord may justly require perfect obedience of

every man, and conclude all men under the curse

for want of it,

341

All men by nature under sin, wrath, and eternal
death,

ib.

Christ hath redeemed believers from the curse of

the law,

What it is to be of the works of the law,

The justice of God requires a perfect personal obe-

dience,

Why the Lord gave the law,

PAGE.

The special use of the law,

ib.

How to make a special use of the law,

344

Every man's best actions are corrupted and defiled

with sin,

345

There is a motion of heart and inclination of will
in all men unto all sin,

ib.

The least sinful thought makes man liable to eter-

nal damnation,

347

Though a man could yield a perfect active obedi-

ence to the law, yet should he not be thereby jus-

tified,

348

Man is as unable to yield a perfect passive obedi.

ence, as he is to yield an active

349

Though man cannot be justified by his obedience to

the law, yet shall not his obedience be in vain,

What good a man that shall never be justified and

saved, may get by his obedience to the law,

How a man may apply the curse of the law to him-

Man naturally is apt to think he must do something

towards his own justification and to act accor

dingly,

353

Of what use the law is to believers who are already

justified,

355

After what manner Jesus Christ gives the law

to believers, who are already justified,

Christ requireth that believers do desire and endea-

vor to yield perfect obedience to all the ten

commandments,

356

God in Christ doth pity and spare believers, though
they yield not perfect obedience to the law,
Believers shall be rewarded for their obedience, and
with what,

357

ib.

If believers do transgress the law, though they shall

not be condemned for it, yet shall they be chas-

tised with temporal chastisements, and what those

chastisements are,

Believers must at all times take notice how they fail

and come short of keeping the commandments

perfectly, and more especially when they are to

humble themselves in fasting and prayer, and up-

on occasion of receiving the sacrament of the

Lord's supper,