A Table of the Chief Matters
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TABLE
Of the chief Matters contained in the CONFESSION of FAITH and
LARGER CATECHISM
Con. signifies the Confession of Faith. The first number denotes the Chapter, the following figures denote the Paragraphs. Cat. signifies the Larger Catechism, and the figures denote the numbers of the Questions.
A ACCEPTANCE. The persons of believers are accepted as righteous in the sight of God only for the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. Which is imputed to them by God, and received by faith, con. xi. 1. cat. 70, 71, 72. How their good works are accepted in Christ, con. xvi. 6. Acceptance in prayer through Christ and his mediation, cat. 180. Access. No access unto the presence of God without the Mediator Jesus Christ, con. xii. cat. 39, 55, 181. Who hath purchased for believers under the gospel, a greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of, con. xx. 1. Actions. God orders and governs all the actions of his creatures by his most wise and holy providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge and immutable decree, con. v. 1. cat. 18. See Providence.
Actual sins proceed from the original corruption of nature, con. vi. 4. cat. 25. See Sin. Admonition of the church, con. xxx. 4. Adoption, the nature and privileges of it, con. xii. cat. 74. Adultery, a just ground of divorce, con. xxiv. 5, 6. Aggravations of sin, cat. 151. Amen, the meaning of it, cat. 196. Angels, God's decree concerning them, con. iii. 3, 4. cat. 13. How created, cat. 16. God's providence towards them, cat. 19. They are all employed at his pleasure in the administrations of his power, mercy, and justice, ib. Not to be worshipped, con. xxi. 2. cat. 105. Antichrist, what, con. xxv. 6.—The Pope is Antichrist, ib. Antiquity, no pretence for using the devices of men in the worship of God, cat. 109. Anxiety about the things of this life sinful, cat. 105, 136, 142. The Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, is of no authority in the church, con. i. 3. Ascension of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 53. Assembly. See Councils. Public Assemblies for the worship of God not to be carelessly or wilfully neglected, con. xxi. 6.
Assurance of grace and salvation attainable in this life, con. xviii. 1, 2. cat. 80. Without extraordinary revelation, con. xviii. 3. cat. 80. Upon what it is founded, con. iii. 8. xviii. 2. cat. 80. It is strengthened by good works, con. xvi. 2. Believers may want it, con. xviii. 3. cat. 80, 172. They may have it diminished and intermitted; and be deprived of comfort, and the light of God's countenance, con. xi. 5. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. cat. 81. But they are never utterly destitute of that seed of God, and life of faith and love, &c. out of which assurance may, by the Spirit, be in due time revived, con. xviii. 4. cat. 81. And by which, in the mean time, they are supported from utter despair, ib. It is the duty of all to endeavour after assurance, con. xviii. 3. And to pray for it, cat. 194. The fruits of it; it inclines not to looseness, con. xviii. 3. Atheism, the denying or not having a God, cat. 105. Attributes of God, con. ii. 1, 2. cat. 7, 8, 101.
B BAPTISM, what, con. xxviii. 1, 2. cat. 165. To continue to the end of the world, con. xxviii. 1. cat. 176. But once to be administered to any person, con. xxviii. 7. cat. 177. By whom, con. xxvii. 4. xxviii. 2. cat. 176. To whom. con. xxviii. 4. cat. 166. Dipping not necessary in baptism: But it may be rightly administered by sprinkling, con. xxviii. 3. Baptism not necessary to salvation, yet it is a sin to neglect it, con. xxviii. 5. The efficacy of it, con. xxviii. 6. How to be improved, cat. 167. Wherein it agrees with the Lord's supper, cat. 176. And wherein they differ, cat. 177. Believers. See Faith, Justification, Acceptance, Adoption, Sanctification, Union, Communion, Liberty, Works, Perseverance, Assurance.
Benefits which the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ, cat. 65. The benefits of Christ's mediation, cat. 57, 58. The Body of Christ, how present in the sacrament, con. xxix. 7. cat. 170. The mystical Body of Christ. True believers are members of Christ's mystical body, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. Which is the whole number of the elect that have been, are, or shall be united to Christ as their head, con. xxv. 1. What that union is, cat. 66. See Communion. The Bodies of the elect after death, and at the resurrection, con. xxxii. 2, 3. cat. 86, 87. Of the wicked, ib. Lascivious Books not to be read, cat. 139.
C 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. 139. 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 censuring sinful, cat. 145. Ceremonial law. See Law.
Charity towards our neighbour, wherein it consists, cat. 135, 141, 144, 147. What contrary 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 profess the true religion are members of the visible church, con. xxv. 2. cat. 62. And are to be baptized, con. 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. viii. 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 sacrifice of himself, he purchased reconciliation 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, Reconciliation, Redemption, Resurrection, Righteousness, Sacrifice, Salvation, Satisfaction, 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 catholic 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, 86, 90. The catholic church visible, what, con. xxv. 2. cat. 62. Out of it no ordinary possibility of salvation, con. xxv. 2. Its privileges, con. xxv. 3. cat. 63. Particular churches more or less pure, con. xxv. 4. The purest subject 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, distinct 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 lawful exercise of their powers upon pretence of Christian liberty, con. xx. 4. See Councils. There are some circumstances concerning church-government, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the word, con. i. 6. Circumcision, one of the ordinances by which the covenant of grace was administered under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. Civil magistrate, or civil powers. See Magistrate. 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 commandments 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. 87, 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 sinners in the Mediator of the covenant of grace, cat. 32. Confession of sin always to be made in private to God, con. xv. 6. And is to be joined with prayer, cat. 178. When to be made to men, con. xv. 6. Upon confession the offending brother is to be received in love, ib. Conscience. See Liberty of Conscience. Peace of conscience a fruit of the sense of God's love, con. xviii. 1, 3. cat. 83. Believers may fall into sins which wound the conscience, con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. The wicked are punished with horror of conscience, cat. 28, 83. Contentment. Submission to God is our duty, cat. 104. Discontent at his dispensations is sinful, cat. 105. A full contentment with our condition is our duty, cat. 247. Discontentment with our own estate a sin, cat. 148. Controversies. It belongs to synods and councils ministerially to determine controversies of faith, and cases of conscience, con. xxxi. 3. The Spirit speaking in the scriptures is the supreme judge of all
controversies in religion, con. i. 10. The original text of the scripture is that to which the church is finally to appeal, con. i. 8. Our Conversation ought to be in holiness and righteousness, answerable to a holy profession, cat. 112, 167. Corruption of nature, what, con. vi. 2, 4. cat. 25. A consequence of the fall of man, ib. Actual sin a fruit of it, con. vi. 4. cat. 25. How it is propagated, con. vi. 3. cat. 26. It doth remain during this life in the regenerate, and all its motions are truly sin, con. vi. 5. xiii. 2. cat. 78. But it is pardoned and mortified through Christ, con. vi. 5. Covenant. No enjoying of God but by way of covenant, con. vii. 1. Covenant of works, what, and with whom made, con. iv. 2. vii. 2. xix. 1. cat. 20, 22. Perfect, personal, and perpetual obedience, the condition of it, con. vii. 2. xix. 1. cat. 20. It is called a law, and a command, con. iv. 2. and a law given as a covenant, con. xix. 1. and a covenant of life, of which the tree of life was a pledge, cat. 20. Covenant of grace, what, con. vii. 3. cat. 30, 32. It was made with Christ as the second Adam, and with all the elect in him, as his seed, cat. 31. In it God requireth of sinners faith in Christ, that they may be justified and saved, con. vii. 3. cat. 71. Faith being required as the condition to interest them in Christ, cat. 32. Who is the Mediator of this covenant, con. viii. 1. cat. 36. Why it is called a testament, con. vii. 4. It was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gospel, con. vii. 5. cat. 33. How it was administered under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. How under the gospel, con. vii. 6. cat. 35. Councils or Synods ought to be, con. xxxi. 1. They may be called by the civil magistrate, con. xxiii. 3. xxxi. 2. When ministers may meet
without the call of the civil magistrate, con. xxxi. 2. What power councils have, con. xxxi. 3. What submission due to their decrees, ib. Not infallible since the apostles' time, con. xxxi. 4. But their determinations are to be tried by the scriptures, con. i. 10. How far they may meddle in civil affairs, con. xxxi. 5. Creation of the world, con. iv. 1. cat. 15. Of man, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. Of angels, cat. 16. Creatures. Dominion over the creatures given to man, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. They are cursed for our sakes since the fall, cat. 28. Religious worship to be given to no creature, con. xxi. 2. cat. 105. Curiosity. Bold and curious searching into God's secrets discharged, cat. 105. Curious prying into God's decrees forbidden, cat. 113. Curious or unprofitable questions are to be avoided, ib. The curse and wrath of God, man liable to it, both by original and actual sin, con. vi. 6. cat. 27. How it may be escaped, con. vii. 3. cat. 153. Cursing sinful, cat. 113.
D DANCING. Lascivious dancing forbidden, cat. 139. Dead not to be prayed for, con. xxi. 4. cat. 183. Death, being the wages of sin, con. vi. 6. cat. 28, 84. It is appointed for all men, cat. 84. How it is an advantage to the righteous, cat. 85. The state of believers immediately after death, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. of the wicked, ib.
The Death of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 49. In it he saw no corruption, con. viii. 4. cat. 52. The divine nature having sustained the human from sinking under the power of death, cat. 38. By his obedience and death, he made a proper, real, and full satisfaction to the justice of the Father, con. xi. 3. cat. 71. Through the virtue of his death and resurrection, believers are sanctified, con. xiii. 1. Believers have fellowship with Christ in his death, con. xxvi. 1. And from his death and resurrection they draw strength for the mortifying of sin, and quickening of grace, cat. 167. The Lord's supper is a memorial of his death, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. And in that sacrament worthy communicants meditate affectionately on his death and sufferings, cat. 174. And receive and feed upon all the benefits of his death, con. xxix. 7. The Decalogue. See Commandments. The Decrees of God, the nature, end, extent, and properties of them, con. iii. 1, 2. cat. 12. The decree of predestination, con. iii. 3, 4. Of election and reprobation, con. iii. 5, 6, 7. cat. 13. How God executeth his decrees, cat. 14. How the doctrine of decrees is to be handled, and what use to be made of them, con. iii. 8. Curious prying into God's decrees forbidden, cat. 113. Desertion. Wilful desertion unlawful, cat. 139. Such as cannot be remedied by the church or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage, con. xxiv. 6. Despair sinful, cat. 105. Believers always supported from utter despair, con. xviii. 4. cat. 81. Devil, all compacts and consulting with him sinful, cat. 105. Diligence in our calling, a duty, cat. 141.
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 public 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. 104. 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 doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice 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. Expiation. Sin cannot be expiated but by the blood of Christ, cat. 152.
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FAITH, what, con. xiv. 2. cat. 72. God requireth nothing of sinners that they may be justified, but faith in Christ, con. xi. 1. cat. 71 Which he requireth as the condition 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 contrac 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 resurrection 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. God. The light of nature showeth that there 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. i. 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 administered 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. Heretics 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. And are made perfectly holy in heaven, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86, 90. See Sanctification. 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. 1. 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. 71, 77. Incarnation of Christ, con. viii. 2. cat. 37, 39. Incest discharged, cat. 139. 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 forbidden, cat. 142. Increase of grace is from a continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, con. xiii. 1, 3. cat. 75, 77. Innocency. The state of man 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 enhance their price, unlawful, cat. 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 intercession, cat. 55. It is a part of his priestly office, cat. 44. He 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 Holy 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 How 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 themselves, 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 appointment 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 persuaded 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, con. 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 justification 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, ib. How justification is of God's free grace, con. xi. 3. cat. 71. Faith is necessarily 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. vi. 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.
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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 creature, 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. 1. 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 farther than the general equity of it requires, 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 covenant, 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 no; abolished, but much strengthened the obligation to the
obedience of it, ib. And although no man since the fall can, by the moral law, attain to righteousness 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 gospel, ib. The end of Christian liberty, con. xx. 3. Liberty to sin inconsistent with it, ib. 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 public 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. 5. 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 elements in this sacrament have to Christ crucified, con. xxix. 5. 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 showeth, 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 r. 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 magistrate, 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. 3–6. cat. 30–35. 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 marriages, 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 merciful 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 appearing in the merits of his obedience and sacrifice, maketh intercession for his people, cat. 55. Messiah. The elect under the Old Testament 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. xxvi. 4. xxviii. 2. cat. 158. By such only the word is to be read publicly 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 accepted, 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 Testament, con. vii. 6. Neighbour. See Charity, Love. Niggardliness sinful, cat. 142.
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AN Oath, what it is, con. xxii. 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 heretics, 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 them 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. Pardon. See Sin. Passions to be restrained, cat. 135, 136. Passover, one of the types and ordinances by which the covenant of grace was administered under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. Patience. Patient bearing of the hand of God a duty, cat. 135. Patient bearing and forgiving of injuries a duty, ib. Peace of conscience. See Conscience. Pedo-baptism. See Infants.
Perseverance of saints. They whom God hath accepted in Christ can never totally or finally fall away from the estate of grace, con. xvii. 1. cat. 77, 79. Upon what their perseverance depends, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79. How far they may fall, con. vi. 5. xi. 5. xiii. 2. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. cat. 78. They are always kept from utter despair con. xviii. 4. cat. 81. How they are recovered when they fall under God's fatherly displeasure, con. xi. 5. xiii. 3. Three Persons in the Godhead distinguished by personal properties, con. ii. 3. cat. 9, 10. The equality of the persons proved, cat. 11. The personal union of the two natures in Christ, con. viii. 2. cat. 36, 37. By reason of this union, the proper works of each nature are accepted of God, and relied on by believers as the work of the whole person, con. viii. 7. cat. 40. Physic to be used moderately, cat. 135. Lascivious Pictures discharged, cat. 139. Polygamy unlawful, con. xxiv. 1. cat. 139. The Pope has no power or jurisdiction over civil magistrates, or their people, con. xxiii. 4. He is in no sense head of the church, but is Antichrist, con. xxv. 6. Powers ecclesiastical or civil, not to be opposed upon pretence of Christian liberty, con. xx. 4. Power of the keys. See Keys. Praises to be joined with prayer, cat. 196. The Praise of any good we either are, have, or can do, not to be ascribed to fortune, idols, ourselves, or any other creature, cat. 105.
Prayer, what, cat. 178. The duty of all men, con. xxi. 3. To be made to God only, and why, con. xxi. 2. cat. 179. That it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of Christ, by the help of the Spirit, 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. How the Spirit helps to pray, cat. 182. How prayer is to be made, con. xxi. 3. cat. 185. For what and for whom we are to pray, con. xxi. 4. cat. 183, 184. Prayer not to be made for the dead, nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death, ib. Prayer, now under the gospel, is not made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, nor towards which it is directed, con. xxi. 6. The rule of prayer, cat. 186. The Lord's prayer, how to be used, cat. 187. It is explained in the Catechism from Question 188, to the end. Preaching of the word is a part of the ordinary religious worship of God, con. xxi. 5. And one of the ordinances in which the covenant of grace is administered under the New Testament, con. vii. 6. cat. 35. None are to preach the word but ministers of the gospel, cat. 158. How they are to preach, cat. 159. How the preaching of the word is made effectual to salvation, cat. 155. Predestination, con. iii. 3, 4. cat. 13. The doctrine of predestination how to be handled, and what use to be made of it, con. iii. 8. Preparation required to the hearing of the word, cat. 160. What preparation is requisite to the sabbath, cat. 117. What to the Lord's supper, cat. 171. Prescience. See Foreknowledge. Priestly office of Christ, how executed, cat. 44.
Private worship in families daily, a duty, con. xxi. 6. cat. 156. Privileges of the invisible church, and of the visible. See Church. Prodigality, a sin, cat. 142. The Profession of the gospel is adorned by good works, con. xvi. 2. And ought to be attended with a conversation in holiness and righteousness, cat. 112, 167. Property in goods and possessions not infringed by the communion of saints, con. xxvi. 3. Prophecies. The covenant of grace administered by prophecies under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. The prophetical office of Christ, how executed, cat. 43. Propitiation. Christ's one only sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect, con. xxix. 2. Protestants should not marry with Papists, con. xxiv. 3. Providence is God's most holy, wise, and powerful preserving, directing, disposing, and governing all his creatures, and all their actions; according to his infallible foreknowledge, and immutable decree; to the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy, con. v. 1. cat. 18. Events are ordered according to the nature of second causes, con. iii. 1. v. 2. 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. How providence is exercised about sin, con. v. 4. See Sin. The actual influence of the Holy Spirit is required to do good works, con. xvi. 3. God's providence towards
angels, cat. 19. Toward man when created, cat. 20. God's providence is in a most special manner over his church, con. v. 7. cat. 43, 45, 63. Public worship not to be neglected, con. xxi. 6. Punishment. See Sin. Purgatory, the scripture acknowledgeth no such place, con. xxxii. 1.
Q QUARRELLING at God's decrees and providences sinful, cat. 113. Quarrelling and provoking words sinful, cat. 136. Questions that are curious or unprofitable are to be avoided, cat. 113.
R READING the scriptures a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. How made effectual to salvation, cat. 155. It is the duty of all to read them apart by themselves, and with their families, con. i. 8. cat. 156. How the word of God is to be read, con. xxi. 5. cat. 157. Rebellion a sin, cat. 128. Reconciliation with God purchased by Christ's sacrifice of himself, con. viii. 5. cat. 44. Recreations to be moderately used, cat. 135, 136. But not on the Lord's day, con. xxi. 8. cat. 119. Redemption, how purchased by Christ, con. viii. 5. cat. 38, 39, 40. For all the elect, and them only, con. iii. 6. To whom it is certainly applied, con. viii. 8. cat. 59. Although it was not actually wrought by
Christ till after his incarnation; yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits of it were communicated to the elect in all ages successively from the beginning of the world, con. viii. 6. How it is applied to them, con. viii. 8. cat. 58, 59. Regeneration. See Effectual Calling. The Regenerate are all freely justified, con. xi. 1. See Justification. And sanctified, con. xiii. 1. See Sanctification. The corruption of nature remains in them, and all the motions of it are sin, con. vi. 5. But it is pardoned and mortified through Christ, ib. The use of the moral law to them, con. xix. 6. cat. 97. Repentance, what, con. xv. 2. cat. 75. Although it be no satisfaction for sin, nor cause of pardon, yet no pardon without it, con. xv. 3. cat. 153. Nor condemnation where it is, con. xv. 4, 6. It is every man's duty to endeavour to repent particularly of his particular sins, con. xv. 5. The doctrine of repentance to be preached by every minister, as well as that of faith in Christ, con. xv. 1. Repentance to be declared to those that are offended, who are thereupon to be reconciled, con. xv. 6. Reprobation, con. iii. 7. cat. 13. Resurrection of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 52. The effect of his own power, cat. 52. It is a proof of his being the Son of God, and of his satisfaction to divine justice, &c. ib. It is an assurance to believers of their resurrection, ib. They have fellowship with him in his resurrection, con. xxvi. 1. He rose again for their justification, con. xi. 4. cat. 52. And through the virtue of his death and resurrection they are sanctified, con. xiii. 1. cat. 75. They draw strength from his death and resurrection for the mortifying of sin, and quickening of grace, cat. 52, 167.
The Resurrection of the dead, of the just and unjust, con. xxxii. 2, 3. cat. 87. Revelation. The divers ways of God's revealing his will, con. i. 1. Righteousness. Man was created righteous after the image of God, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. But by sin he fell from that original righteousness, con. vi. 2. cat. 25. And since the fall no man can attain to righteousness by the moral law, cat. 94. Nor by having righteousness infused into them, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. But those whom God effectually calleth, he accepteth and accounteth as righteous, by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ to them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith, ib. See Faith, Imputation, Justification. Why the righteous are not delivered from death, cat. 85. Their state immediately after death, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. At the resurrection and day of judgment, con. xxxii. 3. xxxiii. 2. cat. 87, 90.
S SABBATH. By the law of nature, a due proportion of time ought to be set apart for the worship of God, con. xxi. 7. God hath in his word, by a positive and perpetual commandment, binding all men in all ages, appointed one day in seven for a sabbath, to be kept holy to himself, con. xxi. 7. cat. 20, 116. Which was the last day of the week from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, and the first day ever since, and so to continue to the end of the world, con. xxi. 7. cat. 116. How the sabbath is to be sanctified, con. xxi. 8. cat. 117. How it is profaned, cat. 119. Why we are commanded to remember it, cat. 121. The Lord's day is a memorial of our creation and redemption, which contains a short abridgment of religion, ib. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it, cat.
120. Why the charge of keeping the sabbath is directed to governors of families and other superiors, cat. 118. A Sacrament. The institution, nature, and ends of it, con. xxvii. 1. cat. 162. The parts of a sacrament, con. xxvii. 2. cat. 163. There are only two sacraments instituted by Christ, con. xxvii. 4. cat. 164. Which are only to be dispensed by ministers of the word lawfully ordained, con. xxvii. 4. How they are made effectual to salvation, con. xxvii. 3. cat. 161. The sacraments of the Old Testament were the same for substance with those of the New, con. xxvii. 5. Wherein the sacraments of baptism and of, the Lord's supper agree, cat. 176 Wherein they differ, cat. 177. Sacrifice. The covenant of grace was administered under the law by sacrifices, con. vii. 5. viii. 6. cat. 34. Which signified Christ to come, ib. Who hath fully satisfied the justice of his Father, in his once offering himself a sacrifice without spot to God, con. viii. 5. cat. 44. There is no real sacrifice made for sin in the Lord's supper, con. xxix. 2. That sacrament being instituted for the perpetual remembrance of Christ's one only sacrifice in his death, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. To which the mass is most abominably injurious, con. xxix. 2. Saints. See Believers, Communion. They are not to be worshipped, con. xxi. 2. cat. 105. Salvation, not to be attained by men who do not profess the Christian religion, be they ever so diligent to live up to the light of nature, or the law of that religion which they profess, con. x. 4. cat. 60. There being no salvation but in Christ alone, ib. Who hath purchased it by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, con. viii. 5. cat. 83. For all the elect, and them only, con. iii. 6. To whom the outward means are made effectual for their salvation by the Spirit, con. vii. 5, 6, xxv. 3. cat. 154, 155, 161, 182. Who worketh in their hearts faith in Jesus
Christ, con. xiv. 1. cat. 72. Which is necessarily required of them for their justification and salvation, con. vii. 3. xi. 1. cat. 32, 71. The Spirit also worketh repentance, and infuseth all other saving graces, con. xiii. 1. cat. 32, 75, 76, 77. Which necessarily accompany faith, con. xi. 2. cat. 73. The Spirit likewise enables them unto all obedience and the practice of holiness, which is the way that God hath appointed them to salvation, con. xiii. 1. cat. 32. Elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, &c. con. x. 3. Sanctification, what, con. xiii. 1. cat. 75. Inseparably joined with justification, cat. 77. Wherein they differ, ib. It is throughout in the whole man, con. xiii. 2. cat. 75. But in this life it is not perfect in any, con. xiii. 2. cat. 77. Whence this imperfection proceeds, con. xiii. 2. cat. 78. Through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, con. xiii. 3. At death they are made perfect in holiness, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. And at the day of judgment they shall be fully and forever freed from all sin, cat. 90. Satisfaction. Repentance is no satisfaction for sin, con. xv. 3. nor good works, and why, con. xvi. 5. Neither we nor any other creature can make the least satisfaction for sin, cat. 194. Christ alone hath made a proper, real, and full satisfaction to the justice of his Father by his obedience and sufferings, con. viii. 5. xi. 5. cat. 38, 71. Which satisfaction is imputed to believers, they receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness by faith, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. Scandalous, not to be admitted to the Lord's table, con. xxix. 8. cat. 173. Scoffing and scorning sinful, cat. 113, 145.
The Scripture, why necessary, con. i. 1. What books to be owned for scripture, con. i. 2, 3. cat. 3 How proved to be the word of God, con. i. 5. cat. 4. Upon what authority the scripture ought to be believed and obeyed, con. i. 4. The sufficiency and perfection of the scripture, con. i. 6. cat. 2, 5. Its perspicuity, con. i. 7. The infallible rule of interpreting scripture is the scripture itself, con. i. 9. The scripture is the only rule of faith and practice, con. i. 2. cat. 3, 5. and of worship, con. xxi. 1. cat. 108, 109. The Spirit speaking in the scriptures is the supreme judge of all controversies in religion, con. i. 10. The original text of the scriptures is that to which the church is finally to appeal, con. i. 8. But they are to be translated into vulgar languages, con. i. 8. cat. 156. Because all sorts of people have an interest in them, and are commanded to read them, ib. How they are to be read, cat. 157. The illumination of the Spirit of God is necessary for the saving understanding of the scriptures, con. i. 6. cat. 157. How the reading of the word is made effectual to salvation, cat. 155. Misinterpreting, misapplying, or any way perverting the word, or any part of it, to profane jests, is sinful, cat. 113. Sin, what, cat. 24. Original sin, what, cat. 25. The sin of our first parents, con. vi. 1. cat. 21. By it they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and had their natures wholly corrupted, con. xi. 2. cat. 25, 27. The guilt of this sin is imputed, and the corruption of nature conveyed to all their posterity, con. vi. 3. cat. 22, 26. Who are thereby bound over to the wrath of God and curse of the law, con. vi. 6. cat. 27, 194. From the original corruption of nature all actual sins proceed, con. vi. 4. cat. 25. Which are not all equally heinous, cat. 150. The aggravations of sin, cat. 151. The demerit of every sin, con. vi. 6. cat. 152. Punishments of sin in this world, con. v. 5, 6, xvii. 3, xviii. 4. cat. 28, 83. In the world to come, con. xxxii. 1. xxxiii. 2. cat. 29, 86, 89. Sin is pardoned for Christ's sake alone, con. xi. 1, xv. 3. cat. 70. See Justification,
Satisfaction. Every man bound to pray for pardon of sin, con. xv. 6. God continues to pardon the sins of those that are justified, con. xi. 5. How pardon of sin is to be prayed for, cat. 194. The sin unto death, con. xxi. 4. cat. 183. Believers have the dominion of the whole body of sin destroyed, and the lusts thereof more and more weakened and mortified, con. vi. 5. xiii. 1. cat. 75. See Mortification, Sanctification. How providence is exercised about sin, con. v. 4. Why God permitted the sin of our first parents, con. vi. 1. Why he leaves his children to fall into sin, con. v. 5. Why and how sinners are hardened, con. v. 6. cat. 68. Sins against the first commandment, cat. 105. Against the second, cat. 109. Against the third, cat. 113. Against the fourth, cat. 119. Sins of inferiors, cat. 128. Sins of superiors, cat. 130. Sins of equals, cat. 132. Sins against the sixth commandment, cat. 136. Against the seventh, cat. 139. Against the eighth, cat. 142. Against the ninth, cat. 145. Against the tenth, cat. 148. Sincerity. Believers love Christ in sincerity, con. xviii. 1. They are never utterly destitute of sincerity of heart, con. xviii. 4. Ministers ought to preach sincerely, cat. 159. We are to pray with sincerity, cat. 185. God is pleased to accept and reward the good works of believers which are sincere, con. xvi. 6. Singing of psalms a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. Slandering sinful, cat. 145. Songs that are lascivious forbidden, cat. 139. The soul of man is immortal, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. The state of souls when separate from their bodies, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86.
Sovereignty. God hath most sovereign dominion over his creatures, to do by them, for them, or upon them, whatsoever he pleaseth, con. ii. 2. The light of nature showeth that God hath lordship and sovereignty over all, con. xxi. 1. Eternal sovereignty to be ascribed to God alone, cat. 196. We are to pray with due apprehensions of his sovereign power, cat. 185, 189. Spirit. See Holy Ghost. Stage-plays forbidden, cat. 139. Stews not to be tolerated, cat. 139. Supererogation impossible, con. xvi. 4. Superiors, why styled fathers and mothers, cat. 125. How to be honoured, con. xxiii. 4. cat. 127. Their duty, con. xxiii. 1, 2, 3. cat. 129. Their sins, cat. 130. See Magistracy. Superstition. God may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men, con. xxi. 1. Religious worship not instituted by God himself, is not to be used or approved, cat. 109. All superstitious devices, &c. sinful, cat. 109, 113. Supper. See Lord's Supper. Surety. Christ the surety for believers, cat. 71. He was thoroughly furnished to execute that office, con. viii. 3. And God accepteth satisfaction from him as their surety, cat. 71. Suretiship, that is not necessary, is to be avoided, cat. 141. Suspension from the Lord's table, con. xxx. 4.
Swearing. See Oaths. Vain or rash swearing by the name of God, or to swear at all by any other thing, is to be abhorred, con. xxii. 2. Synods. See Councils.
T TALE-BEARING, cat. 145. Temptation. Why God leaves his children to manifold temptations, con. v. 5. The wicked given up to the temptations of the world, con. v. 6. Temptations to sin are to be avoided and resisted, cat. 99. § 6, 135, 138. How temptation is to be prayed against, cat. 195. Testament. The books of the Old and New Testament are the word of God, con. i. 2. cat. 3. And the only rule of faith and obedience, ib. See Scriptures. Testament. Why the covenant of grace is called a Testament, con. vii. 4. As it was administered under the law, it is called the Old Testament, con. vii. 5. And as administered under the gospel, it is called the New Testament, con. vii. 6. Thanksgiving to be joined with prayer, con. xxi. 3. cat. 108, 178. It is to be made in the name of Christ, con. xxi. 3. Solemn thanksgiving a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. Toleration. A false religion not to be tolerated, cat. 109. Tradition, no pretence for using superstitious devices in the worship of God, cat. 109. No traditions of men to be added to the scripture, con. i. 6.
Transubstantiation is repugnant not only to scripture, but to common sense and reason, con. xxix. 6. And is the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries, ib. The tree of life was a pledge of the covenant of works, cat. 20. The Trinity. See God, Persons. Truth between man and man, how preserved and promoted, cat. 144. What things are contrary to it, cat. 145. U. V UNION of the elect with Christ, con. xxv. 1. xxvi. 1. cat. 66. It is inseparable, cat. 79. Believers are united to one another in love, con xxvi. 1. Union of the two natures in Christ. See Personal Union. Unregenerate, the use of the moral law to them, cat. 96. Their best works cannot please God, and why, con. xvi. 7. But their neglect to do what God commands is more sinful, ib. Vocation. See Calling. Vow, a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. What it is, and how to be made, con. xxii. 5, 6. To be made to God alone, con. xxv. 6. cat. 108. What vows are unlawful, con. xxii. 7. Violating of lawful vows, and fulfilling of unlawful, is sinful, cat. 113. Usury unlawful, cat. 142.
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WAR may be waged by Christians under the New Testament, con. xxiii. 2. The Wicked. Their condition in this life, cat. 83; immediately after death, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86; in and after judgment, con. xxxiii. 2. cat. 89. Will. The counsel of God's will is most wise and holy, con. iii. 1. cat. 12. It is unsearchable, con. iii. 7. cat. 13. It is free and immutable, con. v. 1. cat. 14; and most righteous, con. ii. 1. How the will of God is to be done and submitted to, cat. 192. The will of God, revealed in the Scriptures, is the only rule of faith, worship, and practice. See Scripture. Christ revealeth to his church, by his Spirit and word, the whole will of God in all things concerning their edification and salvation, cat. 43. Free-Will. The will of man is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined, to do good or evil, con. iii. 1. ix. 1. Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and do good, con. iv. 2. ix. 2. cat. 17. By his fall he lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation, con. vi. 2, 4, ix. 3. cat. 25, 192. The will is renewed in conversion, con. ix. 4. x. 1. cat. 67. It is made perfectly and immutably free to do good alone in the state of glory only, con. ix. 5. Word. See Scripture, Reading, Preaching, Hearing. Worldly-mindedness sinful, cat. 105, 142. Works. What are good works, and what not, con. xvi. 1. Good works are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith, con. xvi. 2. The uses and ends of good works, ib. Ability to do good works is wholly from the Spirit of Christ, con. xvi. 3. The actual influence of the Spirit
is required for the performance of them, ib. This no plea for negligence, ib. Supererogation impossible, con. xvi. 4. We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at the hand of God, and why, con. xvi. 5. Yet the good works of believers are accepted by God in Christ, and rewarded, con. xvi. 6. The works of unregenerate men cannot please God, and why, con. xvi. 7. But to neglect to do what God commands is more sinful, ib. All persons shall, in the day of judgment, receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil, con. xxxiii. 1. Worship. To God is due from his creatures whatever worship he is pleased to require, con. ii. 2. The light of nature showeth that God is to be worshipped, con. xxi. 1. But the acceptable way of worshipping God is instituted by himself in the scriptures, ib. He may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men, con. xxi. 1. cat. 109. False worship is to be opposed, cat. 108. As also any worship not instituted by God himself, cat. 109. But there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the word, con. i. 6. 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. The parts of religious worship, con. xxi. 3, 5. Religious worship not tied to any place, but God is to be worshipped every where in spirit and truth, as in private families daily, and in secret, each one by himself; so more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not to be neglected, con. xxi. 6. Wrath. See Curse.
Z ZEAL for God, a duty, cat. 104.
Corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal sinful, cat. 105.
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