Question 55

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What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances, as God hath appointed in his word.^a

What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances, as God has appointed in his word.^a

a. Deuteronomy 32:46; Matthew 28:20; Acts 2:42
Deuteronomy 32:46
^32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
^32:46 he said to them, "Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
Matthew 28:20
^28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
^28:20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Acts 2:42
^2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
^2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
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Question 55, sung: The Baptist Catechism Set to Music, Jim Scott Orrick

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Changes from Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50

No change, but in spelling and punctuation.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50

What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances, as God hath appointed in his word.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50

What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word.

The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 55

What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances, as God hath appointed in his word.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50

What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances, as God has appointed in his word.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50

What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God has appointed in his Word.

The Baptist Catechism (modernized) (1695), Question 55

What is required in the second commandment?

The second commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances, as God has appointed in his word.

Related (1)

Westminster Larger Catechism (1647), parallel to this question

Question 108

What are the duties required in the second commandment?

The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his word; particularly prayer and thanksgiving in the name of Christ; the reading, preaching, and hearing of the word; the administration and receiving of the sacraments; church government and discipline; the ministry and maintenance thereof; religious fasting; swearing by the name of God, and vowing unto him: as also the disapproving, detesting, opposing, all false worship; and, according to each one’s place and calling, removing it, and all monuments of idolatry.

Commentaries (10)

Benjamin Beddome, 1752, A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism
May civil honour be given to creatures? Yes. Thy father’s children shall bow down before thee, Should all God’s ordinances be received? Yes. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his…
Benjamin Beddome’s text
Joseph Alleine, 1672, A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
What is required in the second Commandment? The second Commandment requireth, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and Ordinances as…
Joseph Alleine’s text
Thomas Lye, 1672, The Assemblies Shorter Catechism Drawn out into Distinct Propositions
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
What is required in the second Commandment? The second Commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious Worship and Ordinances, as…
Thomas Lye’s text
Thomas Vincent, 1673, An Explicatory Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
What is required in the second Commandment? The second Commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such Religious Worship, and Ordinances as…
Thomas Vincent’s text
1675, An Explicatory Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
What is required in the second Commandment? The Second Commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious Worship and Ordinances as…
Its text
John Flavel, 1692, An Exposition of the Assembly’s Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
Which is the second Commandment? The second Commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the…
John Flavel’s text
Thomas Watson, 1692, A Body of Practical Divinity
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
Exod. 20.4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any Graven Image, &c. In the First Commandment is forbidden the worshipping a False God, in this, the worshipping the true God in a false…
Thomas Watson’s text
Matthew Henry, 1703, A Scripture Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
What is required in the Second Commandment? The Second Commandment requires the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire all such Religious Worship and Ordinances as God…
Matthew Henry’s text
Ebenezer Erskine and James Fisher, 1753, The Assembly’s Shorter Catechism Explained, by Way of Question and Answer
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
What is required in the second commandment? The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as…
Ebenezer Erskine and James Fisher’s text
Alexander Whyte, 1883, A Commentary on the Shorter Catechism
On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 50, which this question adapts
The unity and sole supremacy of Jehovah is the subject of the first commandment, and in the same manner the spirituality of the Divine Nature is taught and guarded in the second.…
Alexander Whyte’s text