Dipping in baptism not necessary, con. xxviii. 3. Discontent at the dispensations of God's providence sinful, cat. 105, 113. Discontentment 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 commandment, cat 10. 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. 135. 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. iii. 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 prejudice of truth or justice, sinful, cat. 145. Eucharist. See Lord's Supper. Exaltation of Christ, con. Vili. 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. Fortune. To ascribe any thing to fortune is 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 is glorified by good works, con. xvi. 2. Gluttony a sin, cat. 139. Expiation. Sin cannot be expiated but by God. The light of nature sheweth that there the blood of Christ, cat. 152. F FAITI, what, con. xiv. 2. cat. 72. God requireth nothing of sinners that they may is a God, con. xxi. 1. cat. 2. What it declares 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, con. 1. 1. cat. 2. The attributes or perfections 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 require, 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. Effectual 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 hardened, 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 counHereticks to be rejected, cat. 105. Holiness. God is most holy in all his counsels, 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. Believers 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. cat. So, 90. See Sanctifica tion. The Holy 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. And 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 salvation, 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 removed, 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. 75. And fully perfected 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. 87, 89. Incest discharged, cat. 189. 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- Increase of grace is from a continual sup- Infants, how saved, con. x. 3. Infants of Joy in the Holy Ghost the fruit of assurance, The Judgments of God upon sinners in this The last judgment, what, con. xxxiil. 1. The Justice of God fully satisfied by Christ's Justice in contracts and commerce between joined with sanctification, cat. 77. How K KEYS. The power of the keys, what, con. King. Christ the King of his church, con. L LABOUR is to be moderately used, cat. 135, Land-marks not to be removed, cat. 142. The Judicial Law expired with the state of The Moral Law, what, cat. 93. Given to Liberty. Christian liberty, what, con. xx, b. It is not intended to destroy ecclesiastical or civil powers, but to support and preserve 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 Christianity, or such as are destructive of the peace and order of the church, ib. Liberty of conscience, what it is, and what repugnant to it, con. xx. 2. Making men the lords of our faith and conscience unlawful, con. xx. 2. cat. 105. Life. Eternal life purchased by Christ's perfect obedience to the law, con. viii. 5. The tree of life was a pledge of the covenant of works, cat. 20. The life of any not to be taken away except in case of publick justice, lawful war, or necessary 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 sufficient to make us wise unto salvation, con. i. 1. x. 4. xxi. 1. cat. 2, 60. It is of the law of nature that a due portion of time be set apart for the worship of God, con. xxi. 7. Wanton Looks sinful, cat..139. Lord's prayer. See Prayer. Lord's supper. The institution, nature, and ends of it, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. Christ not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice for sin made in it, con. xxix. 2. The mass abominably injurious to Christ's one only sacrifice, ib. The outward elements in this sacrament are not to be adored, con. xxix. 4. They still remain truly bread and wine, con. xxix. 6. The doctrine of transubstantiation is repugnant not only to the scripture, but even to common sense, and has been and is the cause of gross idolatries, con. xxix. 6. How Christ hath appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the sacrament, con. xxix. 3. cat. 169. It is only to be administered by a minister 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, ib. What relation the ele ments in this sacrament have to Christ crucified, con xxix. 5. How Christ is present there, con. xxix. 7. cat. 170. How believers feed on him therein, ib. What preparation is required for receiving it, cat. 171. Doubting may consist with an interest in Christ, con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. cat. 81. And therefore should not hinder from partaking of the Lord's supper, cat. 172. But the ignorant and scandalous are not to be admitted, con. xxix. 8. cat. 173. What duties 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, ib. The sense of God's love is attainable in this life, cat. 83. See Assurance. 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 sum of our duty to him, cat. 102. Love to God is necessary 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 destitute of the love of Christ and the brethren, con. xviii. 4. Wherein love towards our neighbour consists, cat. 135, 141, 144, 147. What contrary to it, cat. 136, 142, 145, 148. It is the sum of our duty to man, cat. 122 Lying sinful, cat. 145. M MAGISTRATES appointed by God, con. xxiii. 1. For what end, ib. Lawful for Christians to accept the office of a magistrate, con. xxiii. 2. The duty of the civil magistrate, con. xxiii. 2. cat. 129. con. xx. 4. Read the scriptures letter. The sins of the magistrate, cat. 130, 145. He may wage war upon just and necessary 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 sins against them, cat. 128. Ecclesiastical persons not exempted from obedience to the civil magis. trate, con. xxiii. 4. The Pope hath no power or jurisdiction over magistrates, or their people, ib. The magistrate is not to be opposed in the lawful exercise of his power, upon pretence of Christian liberty, con. xx. 4. Infidelity or difference in religion doth not make void the magistrate's just and legal authority, con. xxiii. 4. Man, how created, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. His state 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. 8-6. cat. 80-35. Man's chief end, cat. 1. Man-stealing discharged, 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 sorts of people who are capable to give their consent, con. xxiv. 3. And who are without the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in the scriptures, con. xxiv. 4. But marriages within those degrees can never be made lawful, ib. Protestants should not marry with infidels, Papists, or other idolaters, con. xxiv. 3. Nor such as are godly with those that are notoriously wicked, ib. A contract of marriage may be dissolved for adultery or fornication committed after the contract, con. xxiv. 5. The bond of marriage can only be dissolved for adultery after marriage, and such wilful desertion as cannot be remedied, con. xxiv. 5, 6. Undue delay of marriage, prohibiting of lawful, and dispensing with unlawful mar.. riages, are sinful, cat. 139. Vows of perpetual single life are sinful snares in which no Christian may entangle himself, con. xxii. 7. cat. 139. Those who have not the gift of continency ought to marry, cat. 138. The duties of married persons, cat. 139, 141. The Mass abominably injurious to Christ's one only sacrifice, con. xxix. 2. Means. God in his ordinary providence maketh use of means; yet is free to work without, above, and against them at his pleasure, con. v. 3. The outward and ordinary means of salvation under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. Under the gospel, con. vii. 6. cat. 35, 154. The diligent use of them is required in order to escape the Wrath of God, cat. 153. How they are made effectual, con. xxv. 3. cat. 155, 161, 182. Trusting in means sinful, cat. 105. Unlawful means not to be used, ib. False Measures unlawful, cat. 142. Meat to be moderately used, cat. 135, 136. Mediator. See Christ. The Mercy of God, con. ii. 1. cat. 7. It is manifested in his works of providence, con. v. 1. It is of God's free love and mercy that the elect are delivered from sin and misery, and brought to an estate of salvation by the second covenant, cat. 30. God is meriful to penitent sinners in Christ, con. xv. 2. cat. 76. For whose sake 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 sin or eternal life; and why, con. xvi. 5. Nor can we merit the outward blessings of this life, cat. 193. But we are to trust in the merits of Christ, cat. 174. Who ap pearing in the merit of his obedience and sacrifice, maketh intercession for his people, cat. 55. Messiah. The elect under the Old Testa ment believed in the promised Messiah, by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation, con. vii. 5. viii. 6. cat. 34. The Ministry given by Christ to the visible church, con. xxv. 3. The maintenance thereof a duty, cat. 108. A minister of the gospel is one sufficiently gifted, and also duly approved and lawfully called and ordained to that office, con. xxvii. 4. xxviii. 2. cat. 158. By such only the word is to be read publickly and preached, and the sacraments dispensed, 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 several lusts of the body of sin, con. xiii. 1. Believers draw strength from the death and resurrection of Christ for the mortifying of sin, cat. 167. N THE Name of Christ. That prayer be ac cepted, it is to be made in the name of Christ, 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 name, cat. 181. The Name of God is only that by which men ought to swear, and therein it is to be used 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 Sin, Light of Nature. The two Natures of Christ. See Christ, Incarnation, Personal Union. The New Testament in Greek is that to which the church is finally to appeal in controversies of religion, con. i. 8. The administration of the covenant of grace under the gospel is called the New Testa ment, con. vii. 6. Neighbour. See Charity, Love. Niggardliness sinful, cat. 142. 0 AN Oath, what it is, con. xxil. 1. It is a part of religious worship, ib. The name of God is that by which men ought only to swear, con. xxii. 2. cat. 108. Vain or rash swearing by his name is to be abhorred, con. xxii. 2. cat. 113. Yet, in matters of weight and moment, an oath is warrantable under the New Testament, con. xxii. 2. A lawful oath, imposed by lawful authority, ought to be taken, ib. It is a sin to refuse it, con. xxii. 3. A man must swear nothing but what he is fully persuaded 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 perform, ib. An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words; and, in things not sinful, it binds to performance, though to a man's own hurt, or made to hereticks, con. xxii. 4. cat. 113. But it cannot oblige to sin, ib. Obedience is due to God in whatsoever he is pleased to command, con. ii. 2. cat. 104. Christ hath performed perfect obedience to the law for us in our nature, con. viii. 4. cat. 38, 39, 48, 97. And by it purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven for the elect, con. viii. 5. cat. 38. His obedience is imputed to believers, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. He hath not abolished, but much strengthened the obligation to the obedience of the moral law, con. xix. 5. Good works done in obedience to God's commands are the fruits and evidences of a true faith, con. xvi. 2. cat. 32. How the sincere though imperfect obedience of believers is accepted and rewarded, con. xvi. 6. Obedience is due to the lawful commands of a magistrate, con. xxiii. 4. cat. 127, 128. Offices of Christ, of Mediator. See Mediator. His prophetical office, cat. 43; priestly, cat. 44; and kingly, cat. 45. The Old Testament in Hebrew is that to which the church is finally to appeal in controversies of religion, con. i. 8. The administration of the covenant of grace under the law is called the Old Testament, con. vii. 5. The Ordinances of God given by Christ to the visible church, con. xxv. 3. The ordinances under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. Those under the gospel, con. vii. 6. cat. 35. Which are fewer, and administered with more simplicity, and less outward glory; yet in thêm grace and salvation are held forth in more fulness, evidence, and efficacy, ib. All God's ordinances, especially the word, sacraments, and prayer, are the outward and ordinary means of salvation, cat. 154. How they are made effectual, con. XXV. 3. cat. 155, 161, 182. The neglect, contempt, or opposing them sinful, cat. 109. Original corruption. See Corruption. Original sin. See Sin. P PAPISTS. Protestants should not marry with Papists, con. xxiv. 3. |