viii. s.

undertook and discharged it, con. iv. 8. dence, according to the general rules of
By his perfect obedience, and facrifice of the word, con. i. 6.
himself, he purchased reconciliation and Circumcision, one of the ordinances by
eternal life for all the elect, con.

which the covenant of grace was admi-
cat. 38. To whom in all ages the bene. niftred under the law, con. vii. s. cat.
fits of his mediation are effcctually appli 34
ed, con. viii. 6,8. Christ's offices of Pro- Civil magistrate, or civil powers. See Magi-
phet, Priest, King, cat. 43, 44, 45. See strate.
acceptance, access, body of Christ, church, The Ten Commandments are the sum of
death of Christ, exaltation, expiation, hu the moral law, con. xix, 2. cat. 08.
miliation, imputation, intercession, judge, They are a perfect rule of righteousness,
merit, Messiah, name of Christ, personal con. xix. 2. Rules for understanding
union, propitiation, reconciliation, re them, cat. 99. The preface explained,
demption, resurrection, righteousness, sa cat. 101. The first commandment, cat.

crifice, salvation, fatisfaction, surety. 103,-106. The second, cat. 197,--110.
Christian liberty See liberty.

The third, cat, 111,--114. The fourth,
The church is the object of God's special cat. 115,--121. The fifth, cat. 123,

providence, con. vii. 5. cat 63. Christ 133. The fixth, cat. 134,-136. The
the only head of it, con. viii. 1. xxv. 6. seventh, cat. 137,--139. The eighth,
The catholic church invisible, what, con. cat. 149,--142. The ninth, cat. 143,-
XXV. I. cat. 64. Given to Christ from 145. The tenth, cat. 146,--148. The
all eternity, con. viii. 1. The benefits sum of the first four commandments,
which the members of it enjoy by Chrift, which contain our duty to God, cat. 102.
cat. 65, 66, 69, 82, 83, 84, 90. The ca The sum of the other fix which contain
tholick church visible, what, con. xxv. our duty to man, cat. 122. No man is
2. cat. 62. Out of it no ordinary poffi. able to keep the commandments of God
bility of salvation, con. xxv. 2. Its pri perfetly, cat. 149.
vileges, con. xxv. 3. cat. 63. Particular The Communion, See the Lord's Supper.
churches more or less pure, con. xxv.4. Communion of Saints, wherein it confills,
The purest subject to misturc and error, con, xxvi. 1, 2. The enjoyment of it is
con. xxv. 5. There Thall always be a one of the privileges of the visible church,
church on earth to worship God accord cat. 63. In the Lord's Supper, commu-
ing to his will, ibid.

nicants teftify their mutual love and fil-
Church.censures. See Cenfures.

lowship each with other, cat. 163. That
Church-government, appointed by the Lord facrament being a bond and pledge of be-

Jesus in the hand of church-officers, di lievers conimunion with Chrisk, and with
stinct from the civil magistrate, con. xxx. each other, as members of his mystical
1. cat. 45, 108. But they are not ex body, con. xxix. I. The communion of
empted from obedience to the magistrate, faints doth not infringe a man's proper-
con. xxiii. 4. They have the power of ty in his goods and pollektions, con, xxvi.
the keys committed to them, con. xxx.
2. What that power is, and its use, con. Cominunion which the elect have with
xxx. 2, 3, 4. They are not to be oppo Chrilt, con. xxvi. I. In this life, cat.
fed in the lawful exercise of their pow 69, 83. Immediately after death, cat.
ers, upon pretence of Christian liberty, 86. At the resurrection and day of judge
con. XX. 4

See Councils. There are ment, cat. 87, 90. It is a confequence
some circumstances concerning church of their union with him, con. xxvi. I.
government, which are to be ordered by. It doth not make them partakers of his
the light of nature and Chrillian pru Godhcad, nor equal with him, con xxvi.

cat. 168.

ģ. It is confirmed in the Loril's fupper, But it is pardoned and mortified through

Christ, con. vi. s.
Unchalte Company not to be kept, cat. 139. · Covenant. No enjoying of God, but by

Nor corrupt communications to be used way of covenant, con, vii. 1.
or listened to, ibid.

Covenant of Works, what, and with whom
Condition. Perfect, personal and perpetual made, con. iv. 2. vii. 2. xix. 1. cat. 20.

obedience the condition of the covenant 22. Perfect, personal and perpetual obe-
of works, con, vii. 2. xix. 1. cat. 20. God dience the condition of it, con. vii. 2.
requires faith as the condition to interest xix. 1. cat. 20. It is called a law and a
finners in the mediator of the covenant command, con. iv. 2. And a law giren
of grace, cat. 32.

as a covenant, con. xix. I. and a cove
Confeflion of fin always to be made in pri nant of life, of which the tree of life was

vate to God, con. xv. 6. And is to be a pledge, cat. 20.
joined with prayer, cat. 178. When to Covenant of Grace, What, con. vii. 3. cat.
be made to men, con. xv. 6. Upon con 30. 32. It was made with Christ as the
fellion the offended brother is to be re second Adam, and with all the elect in
ceived in love, ib.

him as his feed, cat. 31. In it God re.
Conscience, See liberty of conscience. Peace quireth of sinners faith in Christ, that

of conscience, a fruit of the sense of they may be justified and saved, con. vii.
God's love, con. xviii. 1, 3. cat. 83. Be 3. cat. 71. Faith being required as the
lievers may fall into sins which wound condition to interest them in Chrift, aat.
the conscience, con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. The 32. Who is the Mediator of this cove-
wicked are punillied with horror of con nant, con. viii. r. cat. 36. Why it is cal-
science, cat. 28.83.

led a testament, con. vii. 4. It was diffe-
Contentment, Submission to God is our du rently administred in the time of the

tý, cat. 104. Discontent at his dispensa law, and in time of the gospel, con. vii.
tions, is sinful, cat. 1os. A full content $. cat. 33. How it was administred un-
ment with our condition, is our duty,

der the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. How
cat. 147. Discontentment with our own under the gospel, con. vii. 6. cat. 35.
estate, a fin, cat, 148.

Councils or fynods ought to be, con. xxxi. 1.
Controversies. It belongs to fynods and They may be called by the civil magistrate,

councils ministerially to determine con con. xxiii. 3. xxxi. 2. When ministers
troversies of faith, and cases of consci may meet without the call of the civil
ence, con. xxxi. 3. The Spirit speaking magistratc, con. xxxi. 2. What power
in the scriptures, is the supreme judge of councils have, con. xxxi. 3. What fub-
all controversies in religión, con. i. 10. mission due to their decrees, ibid. Not
The original text of the scriptures is that infallible since the apostles times, con.
to which the church is finally to appeal, xxxi. 4. But there determinations are to
con. i.8.

be tried by the scriptures, con. i. 10.
Our conversation ought to be in holiness and How far they may meddle in civil affairs,

righteousness, answerable to an holy pro con. xxxi. s.
fession, cat. 112. 167.

Creation of the world, coni. iv. I. cat. 19. Of
Corruption of nature, What, con. vi. 2, man, con.iv.2.cat. 17. Of angels.cat. 16.

4. cat. 25. A consequence of the fall of Creaturcs. Dominion over the creatures
man, ibid. Actual sin a fruit of it, con. given to man, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. They
vi. 4. cat. 25. How it is propagated, cor. are cursed for our fakes, Goce the fall,
vi. 3. cat 26. It doth remain during this cat. 28. Religious worship to be given to
life in the regenerate, and all its motions no creature, con. xxi. 2. cat. 105.
are truly sin, con. vi. s. xiii, 2. cat. 78. Curiosity. Bold and curious searching into

God's

183

xxviii. 3.

God's secrets, discharged, cat. 105, Cu Curious prying into God's decrces, for
rious prying into God's decrees forbida bidden, cat. 113.
den, cat. 113. Curious or unprofitable Desertion. Wilful desertion, unlawful, cat.
questions are to be avoided, ibid.

139. Such as cannot be remedied, by the
The Curse and wrath of God, man liable to church or civil magistrate, is cause suffi-

it, both by original and actual lin, con. cient of dissolving the bond of marriage,
vi. 6. cat. 27. How it may be escaped, con. xxiy 6.
con. vii. 3. cat. 153.

Despair, sinful, cat. 105. Believers always
Cursing, knful, cat. 113.

fupported from utter despair, con. xviii.
D

4. cat. 81.
DANCING. Lascivious dancing forbide Devil, all compacts and consulting with him.
den, cat. 139.

finful, cat. 105.
Dead, not to be prayed for, con. xxi. 4. cat. Diligence in our calling, a duty, cat. 141.

Dipping in baptism, not necessary, con
Death, being the wages of sm, con. vi. 6.

cat. 28. 84. It is appointed for all men, Discontent at the dispensations of God's prom
cat. 84. How it is an advantage to the vidence, sinful, cat, 105, 113 Discontent-
righteous, caat. 85. The state of believers ment with our own estate, finful, cat. 148,
immediately after death, con. xxxii. 1. Divorce, lawful in case of adultery after
cat. 86. Of the wicked, ibid.

marriage, or of such wilful desertion as
The death of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 49. cannot be remedied, con. xxiy, s. 6. A

In it he saw no corruption, con. viii. 4. publick and orderly course of proceeding
cat. 52. The divine nature having fuf is to be observed in it, con. xxiv. 6.
tained the human from finking under the Dominion. See sovereignty, creatures sin.
power of death, cat. 38. By his obedience Doubting of being in Christ, may conlist
and death, he made a proper, real and with a true interest in him, con. xvii. 3.
full satisfaction to the justice of the Fa xviii. 4. cat. 81, 172. And therefore
ther, con. xi. 3. cat. 71. Thro' the vir should not hinder from partaking of the
tue of his death and resurrection, belie. Lord's Supper, cat. 173.
vers are sanctified, con. xiii. 1. Believers Drunkennels forbidden, cat. 139:
have tellowhip with Christ in his death, Duty to God by the ligltt of nature, con.
con. xxvi. 1. And from his death and re xxi. 1. Duties required in the first
surrection they draw strength for the more commandment, cat. 104. In the se-
tifying of sin and quickning of grace, cat. cond, cat. 108. In the third, cat. 112.
167. The Lord's supper is a memorial of In the fourth, cat. 116. Duties of infe-
his death, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. And in riors to their superiors, con. xxiii. 4.
that facrament, worthy communicants me cat. 127. What is required of superiors,
ditate affectionately on his deathand suffer con. xxiii. 2. cat. 129 Duties of equals,
ings, cat. 174. and receive and feed upon

31. Duties of the sixth command-
all the benefits of his death, con. xxix. 7. ment, cat. 135. Of the seventh, cat. 138.
The Decalogue, Sec Commandments.

Of the eighth, cat. 141. Of the ninth,
The Decrees of God, the nature, end, cat. 144. Of the tenth, cat. 147.
extent and properties of them, con. iii. 1,

E
2. cat. 12. The decree of predestination, ECclesiastical powers not to be opposed up-
con. iii. 3, 4. Of election and reprobati. on pretence of Christian liberty, con.
on, con. iii. 5, 6, 7. cat. 13. How God xx. 4. Ecclesiastical perfons not exempt-
executeth bis decrees, cat. 14. How the ed from obedience to the civil magistrate,
doctrine of decrees is to be handled, and con. xxi. 4.
what use to be made of them, con, iii. 8. Effectual Calling, What, con. X. 1. cat. 67.

cat.

It is of God's free grace, not from any

work of the Spirit, con. xiv. 1. cat. 59, thing foreseen in man, con. X. 2. cat. 67. 72. It is ordinarily wrought by the miAll the elect, and they only are effec nistry of the word, con. xiv. 1. Increaftually called, con. X. 1, 4. cat. 08. The ed and strengthned by the word, facra. clect united to Christ in their effectual ments and prayer, ibid. Often weakened, calling, cat. 06.

but always gets the victory, con. xiv. 3. Election, out of God's mere free grace, con. Growing up in many to a full alsurance,

iii. 5. cat. 13. From all eternity in Chrift, con. xiv. 3. cat. 80. Good works the ibid. Elcction not only to eternal life

fruit and evidence of true faith, con. xvi. and glory, but also to the means there 2. cat 52. Which is never alone, but alof, con. iii. 6. cat. 13. All the elect, and ways accompanied with all other faving they only, are effectually called and sav. graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh ed, con. iii. 6. X. 1, 4. cat. 68. Tha' by love, con. xi. 2. cat. 73. others may be outwardly called by the Fall of man, the nature and effets of it, word, and have some common operati con. vi. cat. 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29: Why ons of the Spirit, ibid. Elect infants, and permitted, con. vi. 1. How all mankind other elect persons who are incapable of concerned in it, con. vi. 3. cat. 22. being called by the word, how faved, Falling away. Sce Perseverance. con. x. iii. What use to be made of the 'Family-worship daily, required of God, con. doctrine of election, con. iv. 8. And xxi. 6. how men may be assured of their eter Fasting. Religious fasting, a duty, cat. 108, nal election, ibid. See Anurance.

Solemn fasting a part of religious wor. Envy, livful, cat. 128, 136, 142, 145, 148. Thip, con, xxi. s. Equals, their duties and sins, cat. 131, 132. Fellowship. See Communion. Equivocation, speaking the truth in doubt. Foreknowledge, all things come to pass in

ful and equivocal expresions, to the pre fallibly according to the foreknowledge

judice of truth or justice, sinful, cat. 145. of God, con. V. 2. Eucharist. See Lord's Supper.

Forgiveness, See Pardon. Exaltation of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 51. Fornication committed after contract of

In his rcfurrection, cat. 52. In his ascen. marriage, a just ground of dissolving the sion, cat. 53. In bis fitting at the right contract, con. xxiv. s. hand of God, cat. 54. In his coming to Fortune. To ascribe any thing to fortune, judge the world, cat. 56.

is sinful, cat. 105. Self-Examina:ion, cat, 171.

Free-Will, See Will. Excommunication, con. XXX. 2, 3; 4. Frugality, a duty, cat. 141. Expiation. Sin cannot be expiated but by the blood of Christ, cat. 152. GAMING. Wasteful gaming forbidden, F

cat. 142. FAITH, What, con. xiv. 2. cat. 72. God Glory. The communion in glory witk

requireth nothing of finners that they Christ, which believers enjoy in this may be justified, but faith in Chrift, con. life, cat. 83. con. xviii. 1, 2, 3. Immexi. 1. cat. 71. Which be requireth as diately after death, con. xxxü. 1. cat. 86. the condition to interest them in the At the resurrection and day of judgment, Mediator of the covenant of grace, cat. con. xxxii. 3. xxxii. 2. cat. 87, 90. 32. It justifies a finner in the light of The glory of God, the end of his decrees, God only as it is an instrument by which con. iii. 3. cat. 12. The glory of his he receiveth Christ and his righteousness, grace the end of election, con. ii. s. cat. con. xi. 2. cat. 73. Faith is the gift of 13. The glory of his justice the end of God, con. xi. 1. cat. 71. It being the the decree of reprobation, con, iii. 7. cat.

13. The glory of his eternal power, er boldness of access to the throne of wisdom, and goodness, the end of the

grace, than believers under the law did creation, con. iv. I. The manifestation

ordinarily partake of, con. xx. 1. of the glory of his wisdom, power, jus Government. See Church, Magistrate. tice, goodness and mercy, is the end of The grace of God. Election, of God's mere all God's works of providence, con. v. 1. free grace, con iii. s. cat. 13. How the cat. 18. The end of God's appointing grace of God is manifested in the fecond the last judgment is the manifestation of covenant, con vii. 3. cat. 32. Efectual the glory of his mercy and justice, con. calling is of God's free and special grace, xxxii. 10. To glorify God is the chief con. X. 2. cat. 67. Jastification is only end of man, cat. 1. God is glorified by of free grace, con. xi 3. cat. 70, 71. Agood works, con. xvi. 2.

doption is an act of free grace, con. xii. Gluttony, a sin, cat. 139.

cat. 74. The communion in grace which God. The light of nature sheweth that believers have with Christ, cat. 69. All there is a God, con. xxi. 1. cat. 2. What

saving graces are the work of the Spirit, it declares' concerning him, and of our con xiii. xiv. and xv. cat. 32, 72, 75, duty to him, con. i. 1. xxi. 1. It is not 75,77. And do always accompany faith, foficient to give that knowledge of God con. xi. 2. cat. 73. Perseverance in grace, and of his will, which is necessary unto con xvii. cat. 79. Increase in grace, con. salvation, con. i. 1. cat. 2. The attri

xiii. 1, 3.cat. 75.77. Allurance of grace, butes or perfections of God, con. ii. 1, con. xviii. cat. 80, 81. 2. cat. 7. 101. There is but one only

H God, con. ii. 1. cat 8. There are three HARDEN. Why and how finners are persons in the Godhead, distinguished by hardened, con. v. 6. Believers may personal properties, con ii. 3, cat. 9. io. have their hearts hardened, con. xvii. 3. The co-equality of the persons proved, Head. The elect are inseparably nnited to cat. 11. To him is due from all his crea. Christ as their head, con. XXV. I. xxvi. 1. tures, whatsoever worship, service or obe cat. 64. 66, He is the only bead of the dience he is pleased to require, con. ii 2. church, con xxv. 6. Our duty to God, cat. 104, 108, 112, Hearing. What is required of those that hear 116. What contsary to it, cat. 105, 109, the word preached, con. xxi. s. cat. 100. 113, 119. Religions worship is to be Heaven, the state of the blesed, con. xxxii. given to God the Father, Son, and Holy 1. xxxiii. 2. cat. 86. go. Ghost, and to him alone; and that only Hell, the state of the damned, con. xxxii. s. in the mediation of Christ, con. xxi. 2. xxxiii, 2. cat. 29, 86, 89. The mcaping cat. 199.181. God is to be worshipped of these words in the creed, He descendin that way only which he hath institut

ed into hell, cat. 50. ed in the scriptures, con. xxi. 1. cat. Hereticks to be rejccted, cat. 105. 109. To glorify God, and fully to en Holiness. God is most holy in all his counjoy him for ever, is the chief end of sels, works and commands, con. ii. 2. man, cat. 1.

Man was created holy after the image of Good works. See Works.

God, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. But by the fall Gospel. How the covenant of grace is ad he became wholly defiled, con vi. 2. Be

ministred under the gospel, con. vii 6. lievers are by the fan&iifying spirit of cat. 35. Without the gospel no falvation, Christ, quickened and strengthened to the cat. 6o. con. *.4. In it Christ doth not practice of holiness, con. xiii. 1, 3. cat. dissolve, but strengthen the obligation to 75. And are made perfectiy holy in heathe obedience of the moral law, con. xix. ven, con. xxxii. I. cat. 86, 20. See Sanc. s. Believers under the gospel have a great tification,

The