Monday, 22 November 2010

Tenth Commandment

Q 147: What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?
A: The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition, and such a charitable frame of the whole soul toward our neighbor, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his.

Q 148: What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?
A: The sins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, discontentment with our own estate; envying and grieving at the good of our neighbor, together with all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.

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