Do I acknowledge that I am bound by the rule of God's commandments, as one of the conditions on which I was admitted to the privileges of holy Baptism; which privileges are to be renewed in the Communion to which I seek to be admitted? And am I prepared to examine myself honestly and without reserve, as regards my whole life and conversation, by this rule, as being that by which I shall finally be judged?

and whereinsoever ye shall perceive yourselves to have offended, either by will, word, or deed, there to bewail your own sinfulness, and to confess yourselves to Almighty God, with full purpose of amendment of life.

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The Ten Commandments.

1. Thou shalt have none other gods but

2. Thou shalt not make to 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 to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. 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.

4. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and 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 seventh day, and hallowed it.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long in the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt do no murder.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Question. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments?

Answer. I learn two things: my duty towards God, and my duty towards my Neighbour. Catechism.

1-4. My duty towards God, is to believe

in him, to fear him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength; to worship him, to give him thanks, to put my whole trust in him, to call upon him, to honour his holy Name and his word, and to serve him truly all the days of my life.-Catechism.

5-10. My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men, as I would they should do unto me: To love, honour, and succour my father and mother: To honour and obey the Queen, and all that are put in authority under her: To submit myself to all my governors, teachers, spiritual pastors, and masters: To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters: To hurt no body by word or deed: To be true and just in all my dealings: To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart: To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering: To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity: Not to covet nor desire other men's goods; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.-Catechism.

¶ Thus plainly reminded of his duty to God and his neighbour, let the penitent rehearse in order each Commandment separately, trying

himself after every one, with these questions following, and specially noting his failures.

In will, word, or deed, have I sinned against this law?

How often have I sinned consciously against it?

Am I conscious of any secret offence in reference to this law, in which, as only known to God and myself, I have been content to proceed, satisfied with being free from the censure of the world?

Such ascendancy of worldly influence over my conduct indicates a preference of the world to God: am I seriously resolved, by God's help, to correct so evil and perilous an inclination 1?

1 Should these questions, repeated after the rehearsal of each commandment, as directed in the Rubrick, not be found sufficiently explicit for the unburdening of the penitent's conscience, he may then proceed further, after this sort :

1. Do I reverence the Godhead as revealed by Christ?

2. Do I reverence God's Person, presuming to liken Him to nothing? And have I no idol in my heart?

3. Do I reverence His Name ?

4. Do I reverence His Day?

5. Do I respect the subordinations of age and society, as a member of the Church, of a nation, and a family?

6. Do I, besides abhorring murder, abstain from all evil and malicious thoughts and deeds?

7. Do I, besides abhorring adultery, entirely renounce the flesh and its lusts, and keep myself pure in body and in mind?

8. Do I, besides abhorring direct robbery and theft, endeavour strictly to adhere to justice in all my dealings?

What other obligations have I on me besides obedience; as repentance and faith, the remaining obligations of my Baptism? Have I delayed repentance? Do I believe all the articles of the Christian faith?

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

Have I any special vows or resolutions which, in time past, I have found necessary to make, but which I have not diligently observed?

And if ye shall perceive your offences to

9. Do I, besides abhorring perjury, refrain my tongue from evil, and my lips that they speak no guile?

10. Do I envy none a lot superior to my own; and am I content in the station in which God has placed me?

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