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The Holy Ghoft equal with the Father, con. ii. 3. cat. 11. He is promifed to the elect in the covenant of grace, con. vii. 3. cat. 32. By him they are united to Christ, con. xxvi. . For by him the redemption purchased by Christ is applied to them, con. viii. 8. xi. 4. cat. 58, 59. By him they are effectually called, con. x. I. cat. 67. And have faith wrought in their hearts, con. xiv. 1. cat. 59, 72. He is given to them in adoption, con. xii. cat. 74. And applying the death and refurrection of Chrift to them, by his powerful operation, they are fanctified, con. xii. 1. cat. 75. Having repentance wrought, and all other faving graces infufed into their hearts, con. xiii. 1. cat. 32. 75, 76, 77. Thro' the continual fupply of ftrength from him, believers grow in grace, con. xiii. 3. cat. 75. The outward means are by him made effectual to the elect for falvation, con. vii. 5, 6. xxv. 3. cat. 155, 161 Prayer is to be made by his help. con. xxi. 3. cat 182. Ability to do good works is from him, con xvi. 3. Affurance of faith is attained by his witnefling with our fpirits that we are the children of God, con. xviij. 2. cat. 80. By his abiding within believers, they are fecured from falling totally away from the state of grace, and are kept by the power of God through faith unto falvation, con.

xvii. 2. cat 79.

latry ought to be removed, cat. 108. Jefts. Perverting the fcripture to profane jests, finful, cat. 113.

Jefus, Why fo called, cat 41. See Christ.
Ignorant, not to be admitted to the Lord's

Table, con. xxix. 8. cat. 173.

Image. Man made after the Image of God, in Knowledge, Righteousness and Holinefs, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. This Image is renewed by Sanctification, cat. 75. and fully perfected in Heaven, con. xxxÏÏ. 1. cat. 86, 90.

Image-Worship of all Kinds, discharged,

cat. 109.

Imputation. The Guilt of Adam's firft Sin is imputed to all his Posterity, con. vi. 3. The Obedience and Satisfaction of Chrift

is imputed to believers, xi. 1. cat. 70. His righteoufnefs is imputed to them, cat. 71, 77.

Incarnation of Christ, con. viii. a. cat. 37.

39.

Inceft difcharged, cat. 139. Incestuous marriages which are within the degrees of confanguinity or affinity, forbidden in the fcriptures, can never be made lawful, con. xxiv. 4.

Unjuft Inclosures and depopulations forbidden, cat. 142.

Increase of grace, is from a continual supply of ftrength from the fanctifying Spirit of Chrift, con. xiii. 1, 3. cat. 75, 77Innocency. The state of man in innocency, con. iv. 2. cat 17.20.

one or both believing parents are to be baptized, con. xxviii. 4. cat. 166. Ingroffing, commodities to inhance their price, unlawful, cat. 142. Infpiration. The books of the Old and New

Hape of Glory, con. xviii 1. cat. 83. The Infants, How faved, con. x. 3. Infants of hope of hypocrites, con. xviii. 1. Humiliation of Chrift, con. viii. 2. 4. cat, 46. In his conception and birth, cat. 47. In his life, cat 48. In his death, cat. 49. After death, cat. 50. Hypocrify, making profeffion of religion in hypocrify, or for sinister ends, finful, cat. 113. The hypocrites hope, con. xviii. 1.

Hypoftatical. See perfonal.

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IDLENESS, unlawful, cat. 139. 142. Idolatry, all the kinds of it forbidden, cat. 105, 109. All monuments of idola

Teftament are given by inspiration of God, con. i. 2. But the Apocrypha is not of divine infpiration, con i. 3. Interceffion. How Chrift makes interceffion, cat. 55. It is a part of his priestly office, cat. 44. He makes interceffion, that the redemption which he hath purchafed may be applied to all believers, con. viii. 8. cat 55. And their perfeve

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rance depends upon his contiuual interceffion for them, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79. Joy in the Holy Ghoft, the fruit of affurance, con. xviii. 1, 2. cat. 83. Believers, by falling iuto fome fins, may grieve the fpirit, and be deprived of fome meafure of their comfort, con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. Judge. Chrift the judge of the world, con.

viii. 1, 4. xxxiii. 1. How he fhall come at the last day, cat. 56.

The Judgments of God upon finners in this world. con. v. 6. cat. 28, 83. How believers may bring temporal judgments on themselves, con. xvii. 3. God is just and terrible in his judgments, con. ii. 1. The laft judgment, What, con. xxxiii. 1. Appoi red for angels and men, con. viii, 4. xxxiiiat. 88. The end of its appointment, is the manifeftation of God's mercy and justice, con. xxxiii. 2. Chrift fhall be the judge, con. viii. 4. xxxiii. 1. How he fhall come to judge the world, cat, 56. Why he would have us certainly perfuaded of it, con. xxxiii. 3. Why the time of it is concealed, con. xxxiii. 3. cat 88. The judgment of the righteous, cón. xxxiii. 2. cat. 90. The judgment of the wicked, con. xxxiii. 2. cat. 89.

Judicial law. See Law.

The Juftice of God, fully fatisfied by Chrift's obedience and death, con. viii. 5. xi. 3. cat. 38, 71. It is manifefted in the works of providence, con. v. 1. In the justifi⚫cation of imners, con. xi. 3. In the laft judgment, con. xxxiii 2. Justice in contracts and commerce between

man and man, cat. 141, 142.

Juftification, What, con xi. 1. cat. 70. All the elect, and they only, are juflified, con. iii. 6. Whom God did from all eternity decree to justify, con. xi. 4. But they are not justified till the Holy Spirit doth in due time actually apply Christ unto them, ibid. How juftification is of God's free grace, con. xi. 3. cat. 71. Faith is neceffarily required for justification, cat. 71. But it justifies a finner only as it is an inftrument, by which he receiveth

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Chrift and his righteoufnefs, con. xi. I

2. cat 73. The exact justice, and ric grace of God, are both glorified in the justification of finners, con. xi. 3. Justification, the fame under the Old Testament as under the New, co. xi. 6. It is infeparably joined with fanctification, cat. 77. How they differ, ibid. Thofe that are justified, are perfectly freed in this life from the revenging wrath of God, that they never fall into condemnation, on xvii. 1. cat. 77. 79. But corruption remaining in them, con. vi. 5. xiii. 2. cat. 78. They fall into many Fins, con. xvii 3. cat. 78. Which God continues to forgive; upon their humbling themselves, confeffing their fins, begging pardon, and renewing their faith and repentance, con, xi. 5.

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Eys. The power of the keys, What,

KES

con. xxx. 2. Committed to churchofficers, ibid. The civil magiftrate may

not affume this power, con. xxiii. 3. King. Chrift the king of his church, con.

XXX. 1. How he executeth the office of a king, cat. 45. What meant by the coming of his kingdom, cat. 191. Knowledge. God's knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, con. i. 2. The knowledge which may be had of God and of our duty to him by the light of nature, con. i. 1. xxi. 1. cat. 1. The fcriptures are only fufficient to give that knowledge of God and of his will; which is neceffary unto falvation, ibid.

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LABOUR is to be moderately used, cat.

135, 136.

Land marks not to be remov'd, cat. 142. Law. The ceremonial law, what, con. xix. 3. It is abrogated now under the New Teftament, con. xix. 3. xx. 1. How the covenant of grace was adminiftred under

the law, con. vii. 5. viii. 6. cat. 34. The Judicial law expired with the state of the Jews, con. xix. 4. And obliges no further than the general equity of it requires,

quires, ibid.

The Moral Law, What, cat. 93. Given to Adam with a power to fulfil it, con. iv. 2. xix. 1. cat. 92. The ten commandments the fum of it, con. xix. 2. cat. 98. Tho believers are not under it as a covenant, con. xix. 6. And are not able perfectly to keep it, cat. 149. Yet it continues to be a perfect rule of righteoufnefs, con. xix. z. Binding all, as well justified persons as others, con. xix. 5. Chrift, in the gofpel, having not abolished, but much strengthened the obli gation to the obedience of it, ibid. And altho' no man fince the fall can, by the moral law, attain to righteoufness and life, con. xix. 6. cat. 94. Which Chrift alone hath purchafed for the elect by his perfect obedience, con. viii. 5. Yet it is of great ufe to all, Con. xix, 6 cat. 95. The ufe of it to the regenerate, con. xix. 6. cat. 97. The ufe of it to the unregenerate, cat. 9. Not contrary to the. grace of the gofpel, but doth sweetly comply with it, con xix. 7. The Spirit of Chrift fubduing and enabling the will of man unto a free and cheerful obedience to the will of God, con. xix. 7.

cat. 32

Unneceflary Law-fuits to be avoided, cat.

141, 142.

Liberty. Christian liberty, What, con. xx. 1. Wherein it is inlarged under the gofpel, ibid. The end of Christian liberty, con. xx. 3. Liberty to fin inconsistent with it, ibid. It is not intended to deftroy ecclefiaftical or civil powers, but to fupport and preferve them, con. xx 4. Neither are men thereby allowed to publish opinions, or maintain practices, that are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Chriftianity, or fuch as are destructive of the peace and order of the church, ibid. Liberty of confcience, what it is, and what

repugnant to it, con. xx. 2. Making men the lords of our faith and confcience, unlawful, con. xx. 2. cat. 105. Life. Eternal life purchased by Christ's per

fect obedience to the law, con. viii. 5.
The tree of life was a pledge of the co-
venant of works, cat. 20. The life of a-
ny not to be taken away, except in cafe
of publick juftice, lawful war, or necef-
fary defence, cat. 136.

Light of Nature, What may be known of
God and of our duty to him by it, con.
i. 1. xxi. 1. cat. 2. It is not fufficient to
make us wife urto falvation, con. i. 1.
x. 4. xxi. 1. cat. 2, 60. It is of the law
of nature, that a due portion of time be
fet apart for the worship of God, con.
xxi. 7.

Wanton Looks, finful, cat. 139.
Lord's prayer, See prayer.
Lord's Supper. The inftitution, nature and

ends of it, con. xxix. 1. cat. 167. Christ
not offered up to his Father, nor any real
facrifice for fin made in it, con. xxix. 2.
The mafs abomihably injurious to Christ's.
one only facrifice, ibid. The outward e-
lements in this facrament are not to be
adored, con. xxix. 4. They still remain
truly bread and wine, con. xxix. 5. The
doctrine of tranfubftantiation is repug-
nant not only to the Scripture, but even
to common Senfe, and has been and is
the Caufe of grofs Idolatries, con. xxix.
6. How Chrift hath appointed Bread and
Wine to be given and received in the Sa-
crament, con. xxix 3. cat. 169. It is
only to be adminiftred by a Minifter of
the Word lawfully ordained, con. xxvii.
4. Cat. 176. It is not to be received by
any one alone, con. xxix. 4. It is to be
received in both Kinds, ibid. What re-
lation the Elements in this Sacrament
have to Chrift crucified, con. xxix. 5.
How Chrift is prefent there, con. xxix.
7. cat. 170. How believers feed on him
therein, ibid. What Preparation is re-
quired for receiving it, cat. 171. Doubt-
ing may confift with an Interest in Christ,
con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. cat. 81. And there-
fore fhould not hinder from partaking of
the Lord's Supper, cat 172. But the Ig-
norant and Scandalous are not to be ad-
mitted, con. xxix. 8. cat. 173. What Du-

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ties required in the Time of receiving, cat. 174. What Duties after receiving, cat. 175. Frequent attendance on it, a duty, cat. 175. 177. The agreement and difference between the Lord's Supper and baptism, cat. 176. 177.

Lots, cat. 112. 113.

Love. Election is of God's free love, con. iii. 5. cat. 13. Which is unchangeable, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79. And therefore true believers can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, ibid. The fenfe of God's love is attainable in this life, cat. 83. See affurance. Love to God is a duty, cat. 104. Which the light of nature sheweth, con. xxi. 1. To love the Lord our God with all our heart, &c. is the fum of our duty to him, cat. 102. Love to God is neceffary to the right performance of the duty of prayer, con. xxi. 3. cat. 185. Love to God and the brethren is necessary to right communicating, cat. 168, 171, 174. True believers are never utterly deftitute of the love of Christ and the brethren, con. xviii. 4. Wherein love towards our neighbour confifts, cat. 135, 141, 144, 147. What contrary to it, cat. 136, 142, 145, 148. It is the fum of our duty to man, cat. 122. Lying, finful, cat. 145.

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MAGISTRATES, appointed by God,

con. xxiii. 1. For what end, ibid. Lawful for Chriftians to accept the office of a magistrate, con. xxiii. 2. The duty * of the civil magiftrate, con. xxiii. 2. cat. 129. con. xx. 4. Read the fcriptures letter r. The fins of the magiftrate, cat. 130. 145. He may wage war upon just and neceflary occasions, con. xxiii. 2. His power in church-affairs stated, con xxiii. 3. The duty of the people towards their magistrates, con. xxiii. 4. cat. 127. Their fins against them, cat. 128. Ecclefiaftical perfons not exempted from obedience to the civil magiftrate, con. xxiii. 4. The Pope hath no power or jurifdiction over magiftrates or their people, ibid. The magistrate is not to be opposed

in the lawful exercife of his power, upon pretence of Chriftian liberty, con. xx. 4. Infidelity or difference in religion doth not make void the magiftrate's just and legal authority, con. xxiii. 4.

Man, how created, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. His ftate before the fall, con. iv. 2. cat 17. 20. His fall, and the effects of it, con. vi. cat. 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. His state by the covenant of grace, con. vii. 3, 4, 5, 6. cat. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Man's chief end, cat. 1. Man-ftealing, difcharged, cat. 142. Marriage, the end of it, con. xxiv. 2. cat.

20. Between more than one man and one woman at a time, unlawful, con xxiv. 1. cat. 139. Lawful for all forts of people who are capable to give their confent, con. xxiv. iii. And who are without the degrees of confanguinity or affinity forbidden in the fcriptures, con. xxiv. 4.. But marriages within thofe degrees can never be made lawful, ibid. Proteftahts should not marry with infidels, papists or other idolaters, con. xxiv. 3. Nor fuch as are godly, with thofe that are notoriously wicked, ibid. A contract of marriage may be diffolved for adultery or fornication committed after the contract, con. xxiv 5. The bond of marriage can only be diffolved for adultery after marriage, and fuch wilful defertion as cannot be remedied, con. xxiv. 5, 6. Undue delay of marriage, prohibiting of lawful, and dispenfing with unlawful marriages, are finful, cat. 139. Vows of perpetual fingle life, are finiful fares in which no Chriftian may intangle himself, con. xxii. 7. cat. 119. Those who have not the gift of continency ought to marry, cat. 138 The duties of married perfons, cat. 139. 141. The mafs abominably injurious to Chrift's one only facrifice, con. xxix. 2. Means. God in his ordinary providence maketh ufe of means; yet is free to work without, above and against them at his pleasure, con. v. 3. The outward and ordinary means of falvation under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. Under the gofpel, con. 29 vii 6.

vii. 6. cat. 35, 154. The diligent ufe of them is required in order to cfcape the wrath of God, cat. 153. How they are made effectual, con XXV. 3. cat. 155. 161. 182. Tufting in means finful, cat. 105. Unlawful means not to be used, ibid. Falfe measures unlawful, cat. 142. Meat to be moderately used, cat 135, 136. Mediator. See Chrift.

The mercy of God, con. ii. 1. cat 7. It is manifefted in his works of providence, con. v. 1. It is of God's free love and mercy that the elect are delivered from fin and mifery, and brought to an estate of falvation by the fecond covenant, cat. 30. God is merciful to penitent finners in Chrift, con xv. 2. cat. 76. For whose fake mercy is to be prayed for, cat. 180. Works of mercy are to be done, even on the Lord's day, con. xxi. 8. cat. 117. Merit. No merit in good works, for pardon of fin or eternal life; and why, con xvi. 5. Nor can we merit the outward bleffings of this life, cat 193 But we are to truft in the merits of Christ, cat. 174. Who appearing in the merit of his' obedience and facrifice, maketh interceffion for his people, cat 55. Meffiah. The elect under the Old Teftament believed in the promised Meffiah, by whom they had full remiffion of fins, and eternal falvation, con. vii. 5. viii. 6. cat. 34. The Ministry given by Chrift to the visible church, con. xxv. 3. The maintenance thereof, a duty, cat. 108. A minister of the gospel is one fufficiently gifted, and alfo duly approved and lawfully called and ordained to that office, con. xxvii. 4. xxviii. 2. cat 158. By fuch only the word is to be read publickly and preached, and the facraments difpenfed, con. xxvii 4 xxviii. 2. cat. 156, 158, 159, 169. Moral law, See law,

Mortification. The regenerate have the

corruption of nature mortified through Christ, con. vi. 5. And the feveral lufts of the body of Sin, con. xiii 1. Believers draw ftrength from the death and re

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furrection of Christ for the mortifying of fin, cat. 167.

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THE Name of Christ. That prayer be

accepted, it is to be made in the name of Chrift, con. xxi. 3. cat. 178. What it is to pray in the name of Christ, cat 180. Why prayer is to be made in his nante,

cat. 181.

The name of God is only that by which men ought to fwear, and therein it is to be ufed with all holy fear and reverence, con. xxii. 2. How the name of God ought to be used, and how it is profaned, cat. 112, 113, 114, 190.

Nature. See corruption, original fin, light of nature.

The two natures of Christ. See Christ, incarnation, perfonal union.

The New Teftament in Greek is that to

which the church is finally to appeal in
controverfies of religion, con. i. 8. The
adminiftration of the covenant of grace
under the gofpel, is called the New Tef-
tament, con vii. 6.

Neighbour. See charity, love.
Niggardlinefs, finful, cat. 142.

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AN Oath, what it is, cón. xxii. 1. It is a part of religious worship, ibid. The name of God is that by which men ought only to fwear, con xxii. 2. cat 108. Vain or rafh fwearing by his name is to be abhorred, cop. xxii. 2. cat 113. Yet in matters of weight and moment an oath is warrantable under the New Teftament, con. xxii. 2. A lawful oath impofed by lawful authority, ought to be taken, ibid. It is a fin to refuse it, con. xxii. 3. A man must swear nothing but what he is fully perfwaded is truth; neither may he bind himself by oath to any thing, but what he believes to be just and good, and what he is able to per form, ibid. An oath is to be taken in the plain and common fenfe of the words; and, in things not finful, it binds to performance, though to a man's own hurt, or made to hereticks, con. xxii. 4.

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