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An Explicatory Catechism

Question 48

On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 48

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What are we especially taught by these words [before me] in the first Commandment?

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.

What things are to be learn’d from these words [before me?]

Two things, 1. That God seeth all things.a 2. That God taketh notice of, and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God.b

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aHebrews 4:13; Jeremiah 23:24; Psalm 147:5
  2. bPsalm 44:20–21; Isaiah 42:8

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