#43 Question: What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?
Answer: The preface to the Ten
Commandment are these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Answer: The preface to the Ten
Commandments teacheth us that because God is the Lord, and our God, and
Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all of his commandments.
Answer: The first commandment
is this, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Answer: The first commandment
requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God;
and to worship and glorify him accordingly.
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