Amid vivid lightnings, rolling thunders, raging fire, awful smoke, and terrific quaking of the mount, God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, which form the basis of the moral law. These commandments are given on the next page. Their principles must have a fixed place in every Christian's heart, or no enjoyment can accompany a profession of religion; and they must be adopted by the penitent sinner before he can obtain true and soul-saving religion. [15]

      1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, to serve them. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. 4. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. 5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.--Exodus 20:1-17. [16]

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