Answer. God spake all these words, Exod. 20, Deut. 5, saying: I am the Lord thy God, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
First Commandment
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Second Commandment
Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Third Commandment
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Fourth Commandment
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Fifth Commandment
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Sixth Commandment
Thou shalt not kill.
Seventh Commandment
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Eighth Commandment
Thou shalt not steal.
Ninth Commandment
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
TENTH COMMANDMENt
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Exposition
The doctrine concerning the Law, which is the rule of good works, next claims our attention, in relation to which we shall enquire:
I. What is the law in general?
II. What are the several parts of the divine law?
III. To what extent has Christ abrogated the law, and to what extent is it still in force?
IV. In what does the moral law differ from the gospel?
V. How is the Decalogue divided?
VI. What is the true meaning of the Decalogue, and of every commandment separately considered?
VII. To what extent can those who are regenerated keep the law?
VIII. What is the use of the law?
We shall now proceed to the consideration of the first four questions here proposed. The fifth belongs to the 93d Question of the Catechism; the sixth, to the 94th, and those which follow, down to the 114th; the seventh, to the 114th, and the eighth to the 115th Question.