{"number":48,"title":"What are we especially taught by these words, Before me?","part":null,"questions":[48],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"What are we especially taught by these words, Before me?","answer":"These words (Before me) in the First Commandment teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God.","segments":[{"text":"These words (Before me) in the First Commandment teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"How doth it appear that God seeth all things?","answer":"It doth appear that God seeth all things, because God is every where present, & is infinite in understanding, Can a man hide himself in secret places, and I shall not see him saith the Lord? Do not I fill both Heaven and Earth? His understanding is infinite.","segments":[{"text":"It doth appear that God seeth all things, because God is every where present, & is infinite in understanding, Can a man hide himself in secret places, and I shall not see him saith the Lord? Do not I fill both Heaven and Earth?","proofs":["Jeremiah 23:24"],"refs":[{"printed":"Jeremiah 23:24","osis":["Jer.23.24"]}],"note":null},{"text":"His understanding is infinite.","proofs":["Psalm 147:5"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 147:5","osis":["Ps.147.5"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Why doth God take such notice of, and is so displeased with the sin of having any other God?","answer":"Because the sin of having any other God, is a great affront unto the Holy and Jealous eye of God, who will not give his glory unto another, If we have stretched out our hands unto a strang God, shall not God search this out? I am the Lord, that is my name, and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to Graven Images.","segments":[{"text":"Because the sin of having any other God, is a great affront unto the Holy and Jealous eye of God, who will not give his glory unto another, If we have stretched out our hands unto a strang God, shall not God search this out?","proofs":["Psalm 44:20–21"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 44:20–21","osis":["Ps.44.20-Ps.44.21"]}],"note":null},{"text":"I am the Lord, that is my name, and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to Graven Images.","proofs":["Isaiah 42:8"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 42:8","osis":["Isa.42.8"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}],"text":null}