Lesson 19: On tlbe Ninth and Tenth Commandments

1. Say the ninth commandment.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.

2. What is forbidden by the ninth commandment 1

All immodest thoughts and desires, and wilfu leasures in them.

3. What else is forbidden by the ninth command uaent!

All immediate occasions of immodest thoughts and desires.

4. What are the immediate occasions of immodest thoughts and desires 1

Unchaste words and discourses; immodest books and pictures; and all amusements dangerous to chastity.

5. What else may be deemed immediate occasions of immodest thoughts and desires?

Lascivious looks and touches; idleness; bad company; all excess in eating and drinking; and whatever tends to inflame the passions.

6. Is it sinful to have unchaste thoughts, when there is no desire or intention to indulge them, by any criminal action?

They are always very dangerous, and when entertained deliberately and with pleasure, they defile the soul like criminal actions. Matt. v. 28.

7. Say the tenth commandment.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.

8. What is forbidden by the tenth commandment?

All covetous thoughts and unjust desire of our eighbour's goods or profit.

9. To how many commandments may the ten commandments be reduced 1

To these two principal commandments: Tltcu slbult love the Lord thy God, with thy whole Iteart, and

with thy tvholt soul, and with all thy strength, and with ill thy mind, and thy neighbour as thyself. This do and thou sluj.lt live. Luke, x. Mark, xii.

10. And who is my neighbour? Luke, x. 29.

Mankind of every description, and without any exception of persons, even those who injure us, or differ from us in religion.

11. How am I to love my neighbour as myself?

As you would, says Christ, tlmt men should do to you, Jo yon also to them in like manner. Luke, vi. 31.

12. What particular duties are required of me by that rule?

Never to injure your neighbour by word or deed, n his person, property, or character: to wish well to lim, and to pray for him; and always to assist him, as far is you are able, in his spiritual and corporal necessities.

13. Am I also obliged to love my enemies 1

Most certainly. Love your enemies, says Christ, lo good to them that hate you, bless them tluit curse you, ind pray for tliem that persecute and calumniate you. Luke, vi. Matt. v.