{"number":110,"question":"What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?","answer":"The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, 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; are, besides God’s sovereignty over us, and propriety in us, his fervent zeal for his own worship, and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom; accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations; and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.","segments":[{"text":"The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, 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;","proofs":["Exodus 20:5–6"],"refs":[{"printed":"Exodus 20:5–6","osis":["Exod.20.5-Exod.20.6"]}],"note":null},{"text":"are, besides God’s sovereignty over us, and propriety in us,","proofs":["Psalm 45:11","Revelation 15:3–4"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 45:11","osis":["Ps.45.11"]},{"printed":"Revelation 15:3–4","osis":["Rev.15.3-Rev.15.4"]}],"note":null},{"text":"his fervent zeal for his own worship,","proofs":["Exodus 34:13–14"],"refs":[{"printed":"Exodus 34:13–14","osis":["Exod.34.13-Exod.34.14"]}],"note":null},{"text":"and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom;","proofs":["1 Corinthians 10:20–22","Deuteronomy 32:16–20"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 10:20–22","osis":["1Cor.10.20-1Cor.10.22"]},{"printed":"Deuteronomy 32:16–20","osis":["Deut.32.16-Deut.32.20"]}],"note":null},{"text":"accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations;","proofs":["Hosea 2:2–4"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hosea 2:2–4","osis":["Hos.2.2-Hos.2.4"]}],"note":null},{"text":"and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.","proofs":["Deuteronomy 5:29"],"refs":[{"printed":"Deuteronomy 5:29","osis":["Deut.5.29"]}],"note":null}],"section":null,"relations":{"bc1695":["57"],"wlc-modernized":["110"],"wsc":["52"]},"diffs":[{"source":"bc1695","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"the more to enforce it, contained in these words, 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;","position":null},{"text":"besides","position":null},{"text":"and","position":7},{"text":"his fervent","position":null},{"text":"for","position":2},{"text":"and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom; accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations; and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.","position":null}]}],"page":"108","leaf":56}