Excerpt from The Christian Advocate, Vol. 7: For the Year 1829 When God from mount Sinai, delivered the moral law, as com prehended in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments, he introduced it, as we are informed, Exodus xx. 2, with these solemn and emphatic words - I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egy t, out of the house of bondage. Ese words our Cate chism, with reat propriety, deno minates the Preface of the Ten Commandments. A preface is something spoken introductory to the main and is intended to prepare the bearer or reader to receive what follows, with better understanding, and with more at tention and regard, than he might otherwise do: And it will appear that the words with which the De calogue was introduced are most admirably calculated to produce these effects, when we consider, as our Catechism afirms, that The Preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us, that because God is the Lord, and our God, and Re deemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.