Questions 79-82

Question 1

Question 79:

Answer 1

Which is the Tenth Commandment?
the Tenth Commandment is, “Thou shalt not covet the neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet the neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.”

Question 2

Question 80:

Answer 2

What is required in the Tenth Commandment?
the Tenth Commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition, with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbor, and all this is his.

Question 3

Question 81:

Answer 3

What is forbidden in the Tenth Commandment?
the Tenth Commandment forbbideth all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbor, and all inordinate motions and affections to any thing that is his.

Question 4

Question 82:

Answer 4

Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.