CALLING. See Effectual Calling. To have
a lawful calling, and to be diligent in it,
is a duty, cat. 141

Vows of celibacy unlawful, con. xxii. 7.
cat. 133.

Censures of the church, what, con. xxx. 2,
4. Their use, con. xxx. 3. Who are to
be proceeded against by the censures of
the church, con. xx. 4. xxix. 8. xxx. 2.
They are to be managed according to the
nature of the crime, and the demerit of
the person, con. xxx. 4. Penitent sinners
are to be absolved from censures, con.
XXX. 2.

Censuring. Rash, harsh, and partial cen-
suring sinful, cat. 145.

Ceremonial law. See Law.

Charity towards our neighbour, wherein it
consists, cat. 135, 141, 144, 147. What con-
trary to it, cat. 136, 142, 145, 148. Giving
and lending freely according to our ability,
and the necessities of others, is a duty,
con. xxvi. 2. cat. 141.
Charms unlawful, cat. 113.
Chastity, cat. 138.

Children that die in infancy, how saved,
con. x. 3. The children of such as pro-
fess the true religion are members of the
visible church, con. xxv. 2. cat. 62. And
are to be baptized, oon. xxviii. 4. cat. 166.
Christ, why so called, cat. 42. Is the only
Mediator between God and man, con. viii.
1. cat. 36. Who being very God, of one
substance, and equal with the Father, con.
viii. 2. cat. 11, 36 In the fulness of time
became man, con, viii. 2. cat. 36, 37. The
necessity of his being God and man, cat.
38, 39, 40. He was ordained by God from
eternity to be Mediator, con. viii. 1. He
was sanctified and anointed with the Holy
Spirit to execute the office of Mediator,
con. yiii. 3. cat. 42. To which he was
called by the Father, con. viii. 3. And
willingly undertook and discharged it, con.
iv. 8. By his perfect obedience and sa-
crifice of himself, he purchased reconcilia-
tion and eternal life for all the elect, con.
viii. 5. cat 38. To whom, in all ages, the
benefits of his mediation are effectually
applied, con. viii. 6, 8. Christ's offices of
prophet, priest, king, cat. 43, 44, 45. See
Acceptance, Access, Body of Christ, Church,
Death of Christ, Exaltation, Expiation,
Humiliation, Imputation, Intercession,
Judge, Merit, Messiah, Name of Christ,
Personal Union, Propitiation, Reconci
tiation, Redemption, Resurrection, Righ
teousness, Sacrifice, Salvation, Satisfac
tion, Surety.

Christian liberty. See Liberty.
The Church is the object of God's special
providence, con. v. 7. cat. 63. Christ the
only head of it, con. viii. 1. xxv. 6. The
catholick church invisible, what, con.
XXV. 1. cat. 64. Given to Christ from all
eternity, con. viii. 1. The benefits which
the members of it enjoy by Christ, cat.
65, 66, 69, 82, 83, 80, 90. The catholick

church visible, what, con. xxv. 2. cat. 02
Out of it no ordinary possibility of salva
tion, con. xxv. 2. Its privileges, con. xxv.
3. cat. 63. Particular churches more or
less pure, con. xxv. 4. The purest sub-
ject to mixture and error, con. xxv. 5.
There shall always be a church on earth
to worship God according to his will, ib.
Church-censures. See Censures.
Church-government appointed by the Lord
Jesus in the hand of church-officers, dis-
tinct from the civil magistrate, con. xxx.
1. cat. 45, 108. But they are not exempted
from obedience to the magistrate, con.
xxiii. 4. They have the power of the keys
committed to them, con. xxx. 2. What
that power is, and its use, con. xxx. 2, 3,
4. They are not to be opposed in the law.
ful exercise of their powers upon pretence
of Christian liberty, con. xx. 4 See Coun
cils. There are some circumstances con-
cerning church-government, which are to
be ordered by the light of nature and
Christian prudence, according to the gene-
ral rules of the word, con. i. 6.
Circumcision, one of the ordinances by
which the covenant of grace was admi-
nistered unto the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34.
Civil magistrate, or civil powers. See Ma-
gistrate.

The Ten Commandments are the sum of the
moral law, con. xix. 2. cat. 98. They are
a perfect rule of righteousness, con xix.
2. Rules for understanding them, cat. 99.
The preface explained, cat. 101. The first
Commandment, cat. 103-106. The second,
cat. 107-110. The third, cat. 111-114
The fourth, cat. 115-121 The fifth, cat.
123-133. The sixth, cat. 134-136. The
seventh, cat. 137-139. The eighth, cat.
140-142. The ninth, cat. 143-145. The
tenth, cat. 146-148. The sum of the first
four commandments, which contain our
duty to God, cat. 102. The sum of the
other six, which contain our duty to man,
cat. 122. No man is able to keep the com-
mandments of God perfectly, cat. 149.
The Communion. See The Lord's Supper.
Communion of Saints, wherein it consists,
con. xxvi. 1, 2. The enjoyment of it is one
of the privileges of the visible church, cat.

63

In the Lord's supper communicants
testify their mutual love and fellowship
each with other, cat. 168. That sacrament
being a bond and pledge of believers'
communion with Christ, and with each
other, as members of his mystical body,
con. xxix. 1. The communion of saints
doth not infringe a man's property in his
goods and possessions, con. xxvi. 3.
Communion which the elect have with
Christ, con. xxvi. 1. In this life, cat. 69,
83. Immediately after death, cat. 86. At
the resurrection and day of judgment, cat.
67, 90. It is a consequence of their union
with him, con. xxvi. 1. It doth not make
them partakers of his Godhead, nor equal
with him, con. xxvi. 3. It is confirmed in
the Lord's supper, cat. 168.
Unchaste company not to be kept, cat. 139.
Nor corrupt communications to be used or
listened to, ib.

Condition. Perfect, personal, and perpetual
obedience, the condition of the covenant
of works, con. vii. 2. xix. 1. cat. 20. God
requires faith as the condition to interest

Discontent at the dispensations of God's
providence sinful, cat. 105, 113. Discon-
tentment with our own estate sinful, cat.
148.

Divorce, lawful in case of adultery after
marriage, or of such wilful desertion as
cannot be remedied, con. xxiv. 5, 6. A
publick and orderly course of proceeding
is to be observed in it, con. xxiv. 6
Dominion. See Sovereignty, Creatures, Sin.
Doubting of being in Christ, may consist
with a true interest in him, con. xvii. 3.
xviii. 4. cat. 81, 172. And therefore should
not hinder from partaking of the Lord's
supper, cat. 172.

Drunkenness forbidden, cat. 139.

Duty to God by the light of nature, con. xxi.
1. Duties required in the first command-
ment, cat. 101. In the second, cat. 108.
In the third, cat. 112. In the fourth, cat.
116. Duties of inferiors to their superiors,
con. xxiii. 4. cat. 127. What is required
of superiors, con. xxiii. 2. cat. 129. Duties
of equals, cat. 131. Duties of the sixth
commandment, cat. 13). Of the seventh,
cat. 138. Of the eighth, cat. 141. Of the
ninth, cat. 144. Of the tenth, cat. 147.

E

ECCLESIASTICAL powers not to be opposed
upon pretence of Christian liberty, con.
XX. 4. Ecclesiastical persons not exempted
from obedience to the civil magistrate,
con. xxiii. 4.

Effectual calling, what, con. x. 1. cat. 67. It
is of God's free grace, not from any thing
foreseen in man, con. x. 2. cat. 67. All the
elect, and they only, are effectually called,
con. x. 1, 4, cat. 68. The elect united to
Christ in their effectual calling, cat. 66.
Election, out of God's mere free grace, con.
iii. 5. cat. 13. From all eternity in Christ,
ib. Election not only to eternal life and
glory, but also to the means thereof, con.
ii. 6. cat. 13. All the elect, and they only,
are effectually called and saved, con. iii.
6. x. 1, 4. cat. 68. Though others may be
outwardly called by the word, and have
some common operations of the Spirit, ib.
Elect infants, and other elect persons who
are incapable of being called by the word,
how saved, con. x. 3. What use to be made
of the doctrine of election, con. iv. 8. And
how men may be assured of their eternal
election, ib. See Assurance.
Envy sinful, cat. 128, 136, 142, 145, 148.
Equals, their duties and sins, cat. 131, 132.
Equivocation. Speaking the truth in doubt-

ful and equivocal expressions, to the pre-
judice of truth or justice, sinful, cat. 145.
Eucharist. See Lord's Supper.
Exaltation of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 51. In
his resurrection, cat. 52. In his ascension,
cat 53. In his sitting at the right hand
of God, cat. 54. In his coming to judge
the world, cat. 56.

Self-examination, cat. 171.

Excommunication, con. xxx. 2, 3, 4.

be justified, but faith in Christ, con. xi. 1.
cat. 71. Which he requireth as the con-
dition to interest them in the Mediator of
the covenant of grace, cat. 32. It justifies
a sinner in the sight of God only as it is
an instrument by which he receiveth
Christ and his righteousness, con. xi. 2.
cat. 73. Faith is the gift of God, con. xi.
1. cat. 71. It being the work of the Spirit,
con. xiv. 1. cat. 59, 72. It is ordinarily
wrought by the ministry of the word, con.
xiv. 1. Increased and strengthened by the
word, sacraments, and prayer, ib. Often
weakened, but always gets the victory,
con. xiv. 3. Growing up in many to a
full assurance, con. xiv. 3. cat. 80. Good
works the fruit and evidence of true faith,
con. xvi. 2. cat. 52. Which is never alone,
but always accompanied with all other
saving graces, and is no dead faith, but
worketh by love, con. xi. 2. cat. 73.
Fall of man, the nature and effects of it,
con. vi. cat. 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29. Why
permitted, con. vi. 1. How all mankind
concerned in it, con, vi. 3. cat. 22.
Falling away. See Perseverance.
Family worship daily, required of God, con.
xxi. 6.

Fasting. Religious fasting a duty, cat. 108.
Solemn fasting a part of religious worship,
con. xxi. 5.

Fellowship. See Communion.
Foreknowledge. All things come to pass
infallibly according to the foreknowledge
of God, con. v. 2.

Forgiveness. See Pardon.
Fornication committed after contract of
marriage, a just ground of dissolving the
contract, con. xxiv. 5.

Fortune. To ascribe any thing to fortune is
sinful, cat. 105.
Free-will. See Will.
Frugality a duty, cat. 141.

G

GAMING. Wasteful gaming forbidden, cat.
142.

Glory. The communion in glory with Christ,
which believers enjoy in this life, con.
xviii. 1, 2, 3. cat. 83. Immediately after
death, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. At the re
surrection and day of judgment, con.xxxii.
3. xxxiii. 2. cat. 87, 90.

The Glory of God the end of his decrees, con.
iii. 3. cat. 12. The glory of his grace the
end of election, con. iii. 5. cat. 13. The
glory of his justice the end of the decree
of reprobation, con. iii. 7. cat. 13. The
glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and
goodness, the end of the creation, con. iv.
1. The manifestation of the glory of his
wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and
mercy, is the end of all God's works of
providence, con. v. 1. cat. 18. The end of
God's appointing the last judgment is the
manifestation of the glory of his mercy
and justice, con. xxxii. 10. To glorify
God is the chief end of man, cat. 1. God i
glorified by good works, con. xvi. 2.
Gluttony a sin, cat. 139.

the blood of Christ, cat. 152.

F

FAITH, what, con. xiv. 2. cat. 72. God re-
quireth nothing of sinners that they may

is a God, con. xxi. 1. cat. 2. What it de-
clares concerning him, and of our duty to
him, con. i. 1. xxi. 1. It is not sufficient
to give that knowledge of God, and of his
will, which is necessary unto salvation,

om 1. 1. cat. 2 The attributes or perfec-
tions of God, con. ii. 1, 2. cat. 7, 101. There
is but one only God, con. ii. 1 cat. 8.
There are three persons in the Godhead,
distinguished by personal properties, con.
ii. 3. cat. 9, 10. The co-equality of the
persons proved, cat. 11. To him is due
from all his creatures, whatsoever worship,
service, or obedience, he is pleased to re-
quire, con. ii, 2. Our duty to God, cat.
104, 108, 112, 116. What contrary to it,
cat. 105, 109, 113, 119. Religious worship
is to be given to God the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost, and to him alone; and that
only in the mediation of Christ, con. xxi.
2. cat. 179, 181. God is to be worshipped
in that way only which he hath instituted
in the scriptures, con. xxi. 1. cat. 109. To
glorify God, and fully to enjoy him for
ever, is the chief end of man, cat. 1.
Good works. See Works.
Gospel. How the covenant of grace is ad-
ministered under the gospel, con. vii. 6.
cat. 35. Without the gospel no salvation,
con. x. 4. cat. 60. In it Christ doth not
dissolve but strengthen the obligation to
the obedience of the moral law, con. xix.
5. Believers under the gospel have a
greater boldness of access to the throne of
grace, than believers under the law did
ordinarily partake of, con. xx. 1.
Government. See Church, Magistrate.
The Grace of God. Election is of God's
mere free grace, con. iii. 5. cat. 13. How
the grace of God is manifested in the
second covenant, con. vii. 3. cat. 32. Effec-
tual calling is of God's free and special
grace, con. x. 2. cat. 67. Justification is
only of free grace, con. xi. 3. cat. 70, 71.
Adoption is an act of free grace, con. xii.
cat. 74. The communion in grace which
believers have with Christ, cat. 69. All
saving graces are the work of the Spirit,
con. xiii, xiv, xv. cat. 32, 72, 75, 76, 77.
And do always accompany faith, con. xi.
2. cat. 73. Perseverance in grace, con.
xvii. cat. 79. Increase in grace, con. xiii.
1, 3. cat. 75, 77. Assurance of grace, con.
xviii. cat. 80, 81.

H

HARDEN. Why and how sinners are har-
dened, con. v. 6. Believers may have their
hearts hardened, con. xvii. 3.
Head. The elect are inseparably united to
Christ as their head, con. xxv. 1. xxvi. 1.
cat. 64, 66. He is the only head of the
church, con. xxv. 6.

Hearing. What is required of those that
hear the word preached, con. xxi. 5. cat.
160.

Heaven, the state of the blessed, con. xxxii.
1. xxxiii. 2. cat. 86, 90.

Hell, the state of the damned, con. xxxii. 1.
xxxiii. 2. cat. 29, 86, 89. The meaning of
these words in the Creed, He descended
into hell, cat. 50.

Hereticks to be rejected, cat. 105.
Holiness. God is most holy in all his coun-
Hereticks to be rejected, cat. 105.
Holiness. God is most holy in all his coun-
sels, works, and commands, con. ii. 2.
Man was created holy after the image of
God, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. But by the fall he
became wholly defiled, con. vi. 2. Be-
lievers are, by the sanctifying Spirit of
Christ, quickened and strengthened to the
practice of holiness, con. xiii. 1, 3. cat. 75.
2 D

And are made perfectly holy in heaven,
con. xxxii. 1. cât. So, 90. See Sanctifica
tion.

The 1toly Ghost equal with the Father, con.
ii. 3. cat. 11. He is promised to the elect
in the covenant of grace, con, vii. 3. cat.
32. By him they are united to Christ,
con. xxvi. 1. 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. 1. 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. Ana
applying the death and resurrection of
Christ to them, by his powerful operation,
they are sanctified, con. xiii. 1. cat. 75.
Having repentance wrought, and all other
saving graces infused into their hearts,
con. xiii. 1. cat. 32, 75, 76, 77. Through
the continual supply of strength from him,
believers grow in grace, con. xiii. 3. cat.
75. The outward means are by him made
effectual to the elect for salvation, 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. Assurance of faith is
attained by his witnessing with our spirits
that we are the children of God, con. xviii.
2. cat. 80. By his abiding within believers,
they are secured from falling totally away
from the state of grace, and are kept by
the power of God through faith unto sal
vation, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79.

Hope of glory, con. xviii. 1. cat. 83. The
hope of hypocrites, con. xviii. 1.
Humiliation of Christ, 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.

Hypocrisy. Making profession of religion
in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends, sinful,
cat. 113. The hypocrite's hope, con.

xviii. 1.

Hypostatical. See Personal.

I

IDLENESS unlawful, cat. 139, 142. Idolatry,
all the kinds of it forbidden, cat. 105, 109.
All monuments of idolatry ought to be re-
moved, cat. 108.

Jests. Perverting the scripture to profane
jests, sinful, cat. 113.

Jesus, why so 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 holiness,
con. iv. 2. cat. 17. This image is renewed
by sanctification, cat. 5. And fully per-
fected in heaven, con. xxxii. i. cat. 86, 90.
Image-worship of all kinds discharged, cat.

109.

Imputation. The guilt of Adam's first sin
is imputed to all his posterity, con. vi. 3.
The obedience and satisfaction of Christ
is imputed to believers, con. xi. 1. cat. 70.
His righteousness is imputed to them, cat.
is imputed to believers, con. xi. 1. cat. 70.
His righteousness is imputed to them, cat.
71, 77.

Incarnation of Christ, con. viii. 2. cat. 37, 39.
Incest discharged, cat. 129. Incestuous

marriages, which are within the degrees
of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in
the scriptures, can never be made lawful,
con. xxiv. 4.

Unjust inclosures and depopulations for
bidden, cat. 142

Increase of grace is from a continual sup-

ply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit
of Christ, con xiii. 1, 3. cat. 75, 77.
Innocency. The state of mau in innocency,
con. iv. 2. cat. 17, 20.

Infants, how saved, con. x. 3. Infants of
one or both believing parents are to be
baptized, con. xxviii. 4 cat. 166.
Ingrossing commodities to inhance their
price, unlawful, cal. 142.
Inspiration. The books of the Old and New
Testament are given by inspiration of
God, con. i. 2. But the Apocrypha is not
of divine inspiration, con. i. 3.
Intercession. How Christ makes interces-
sion, cat. 55. It is a part of his priestly
office, cat. 44. lle makes intercession, that
the redemption which he hath purchased
may be applied to all believers, con. viii.
8. cat. 55. And their perseverance depends
upon his continual intercession for them,
con, xvii. 2, cat. 79.

Joy in the Iloly Ghost the fruit of assurance,
con. xviii. 1, 2. cat. 83. Believers, by
falling into some sins, may grieve the
Spirit, and be deprived of some measure
of their comfort, con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4.
Judge. Christ the judge of the world, con.
viii. 1, 4. xxxiii. 1. Low he shall come at
the last day, cat. 56.

The Judgments of God upon sinners in this
world, con. v. 6. cat. 28, 83. How believers
may bring temporal judgments on them-
selves, con.xvii. 3. God is just and terrible
in his judgments, con. ii. 1.

The last judgment, what, con. xxxiii. 1.
Appointed for angels and men, con. viii. 4.
xxxiii. 1. cat. 88. The end of its appoint-
ment is the manifestation of God's mercy
and justice, con, xxxiii. 2. Christ shall be
the judge, con. viii. 4. xxxiii. 1.

How

he shall come to judge the world, cat. 56.
Why he would have us certainly per-
suaded of it, con. xxxiii. 3. Why the time
of it is concealed, con. xxxiii. 3. cat. 88.
The judgment of the righteous, con. xxxiii.
2. cat. 90. The judgment of the wicked,
Cor. xxxiii. 2. cat. 89.
Judicial law. See Law.

The Justice of God fully satisfied by Christ's
obedience and death, con. viii. 5. xi. 3.
cat. 38, 71. It is manifested in the works
of providence, con. v. 1. In the justifica-
tion of sinners, con. xi. 3. In the last
judgment, con. xxxiii, 2.

Justice in contracts and commerce between
man and man, cat. 141, 142.
Justification, what, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. All
the elect, and they only, are justified, 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,
b. How justification is of God's free
grace, con. xi. 3. cat. 71. Faith is neces-
Barily required for justification, cat. 71.
But it justifies a sinner only as it is an
instrument by which he receiveth Christ
and his righteousness, con. xi. 1, 2. cat.
73. The exact justice, and rich grace of
God, are both glorified in the justification
of sinners, con. xi. 3. Justification the
same under the Old Testament as under
the New, con. xi. 6. It is inseparably

joined with sanctification, cat. 77. How
they differ, ib. Those that are justified
are perfectly freed in this life from the
revenging wrath of God, that they never
fall into condemnation, con. xvii. 1. cat.
77, 79. But corruption remaining in them,
con. v. 5. xiii. 2. cat. 78. They fall into
many sins, con. xvii. 3. cat. 78. Which
God continues to forgive, upon their
humbling themselves, confessing their
sins, begging pardon, and renewing their
faith and repentance, con. xi. 5.

K

KEYS. The power of the keys, what, con.
Xxx. 2. Committed to church-officers, ib.
The civil magistrate may not assume this
power, con. xxiii. 3.

King. Christ 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 crea-
ture, con. ii. 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. I.
The scriptures are only sufficient to give
that knowledge of God and of his will
which is necessary unto salvation, ib.

L

LABOUR is to be moderately used, cat. 135,
136.

Land-marks not to be removed, cat. 142.
Law. The Ceremonial Law, what, con. xix.
3. It is abrogated now under the New
Testament, con. xix. 3. xx. 1. How the
covenant of grace was administered 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 re-
quires, ib.

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 sum of it, con. xix. 2. cat. 98. Though
believers are not under it as a coverant,
con. xix. 6. And are not able perfectly to
keep it. cat. 149. Yet it continues to be a
perfect rule of righteousness, con. xix. 2.
Binding all, as well justified persons as
others, con. xix. 5. Christ, in the gospel,
having not abolished, but much strength-
ened the obligation to the obedience of it,
ib. And although no man since the fall
can, by the moral law, attain to righteous-
ness and life, con. xix. 6. cat. 94. Which
Christ alone hath purchased for the elect
by his perfect obedience, con. viii.5. Yet
it is of great use to all, con. xix. 6. cat. 95.
The use of it to the regenerate, con. xix. 6.
cat. 97. The use of it to the unregenerate,
cat. 96. Not contrary to the grace of the
gospel, but doth sweetly comply with it,
con. xix. 7. The Spirit of Christ subduing
and enabling the will of man unto a free
and cheerful obedience to the will of God-
con. xix. 7. cat. 32.
Unnecessary Law-suits to be avoided, cat.
141, 142.

Liberty. Christian liberty, what, con. xx.
1. Wherein it is enlarged under the gos
pel, ib. The end of Christian liberty, con
XX. 3 Liberty to sin inconsistent with it,