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A familiar and easy guide to the understanding of the Church catechism, in question and answer - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... Can you mention any other instance in which this commandment is often broken? A. Yes: it is broken by persons who idly call upon the name of God, or mention it at all unnecessarily. Q. What are you particularly speaking of? A. I speak of the practice of those persons, who cry out, Good God! or, Good Lord! O God! or, O Lord! and of those who upon every trifling occasion say, God knows, the Lord knows, and the like. Q. Is there not even a worse way of breaking this commandment, which is very common? A. There are few things more wicked and shocking, than when people call upon God to damn and curse themselves, or others. A. Can you not be guilty of the sin, forbidden in this commandment, although you do not take the very name of God in vain? A. Yes, certainly, for my Saviour commands me: as the intention of this commandment, to "swear not at all1." Q. May you, without any harm, swear by Jesus or by Christ? A. No; for that is to swear by God himself. Q. May you swear by heaven, or any other of God's creatures? A. No; for they are entirely at his disposal. Q. May you swear by your life? A. No; my life is in God's hands; and to swear by it is the same thing as to swear by him who gave it and preserves it. Q. May you swear by your soul or your body? A. No; to swear by my soul or body is to swear by him who made them, and "who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell8." Q. You understand, then, that all such common oaths are wicked? A. I understand that, unless where the law calls upon me to take an oath for the furtherance of the Matt. v. 3, 4, and following verses. 8 Matt. x. 28. truth, every sort of swearing whatever is forbidden by God, and is sinful1. Q. Has God given us any reason to suppose, that vain swearing is...
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