undertook and discharged it, con. iv. 8. By his perfect obedience, and facrifice of himfelf, he purchased reconciliation and eternal life for all the elect, con. viii. 5. cat. 38. To whom in all ages the bene. fits of his mediation are effectually appli dence, according to the general rules of the word, con. і. 6. Circumcifion, one of the ordinances by which the covenant of grace was adminiftred under the law, con. vii. s. cat. 34. ed, con. viii. 6, 8. Christ's offices of Pro- Civil magistrate, or civil powers. See Magi phet, Prieft, King, cat. 43, 44, 45. See acceptance, access, body of Christ, church, death of Chrift, exaltation, expiation, humiliation, imputation, interceffion, judge, merit, Messiah, name of Chrift, personal union, propitiation, reconciliation, redemption, refurrection, righteoufnefs, facrifice, falvation, fatisfaction, surety. Christian liberty See liberty. The church is the object of God's special Church-government, appointed by the Lord ftrate. The Ten Commandments are the sum of con. xxvi. 1, 2. The enjoyment of it is 3. Communion which the elect have with Chrift, con. xxvi. 1. In this life, cat, 69, 83. Immediately after death, cat. 86. At the refurrection and day of judgment, cat. 87, 90. It is a confequence of their union with him, con. xxvi. r. 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, ibid. Condition. Perfect, personal and perpetual obedience the condition of the covenant of works, con. vii. z. xix. 1. cat. 20. God requires faith as the condition to interest finners in the mediator of the covenant of grace, cat. 32. Confeffion of fin 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 confeffion the offended brother is to be received in love, ib. Confcience, See liberty of confcience. Peace of confcience, a fruit of the sense of God's love, con. xviii. 1, 3. cat. 83. Believers may fall into fins which wound the confcience, con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. The wicked are punished with horror of con science, cat. 28.83. Contentment, Submiffion to God is our dutý, cat. 104. Discontent at his difpenfations, is finful, cat. 105. A full contentment with our condition, is our duty, cat. 147. Difcontentment with our own eftate, a fin, cat. 148. Controverfies. It belongs to synods and councils minifterially to determine controverfies of faith, and cafes of confcience, con. xxxi. 3. The Spirit speaking in the scriptures, is the fupreme judge of all controverfies in religión, con. i. ro. The original text of the scriptures is that to which the church is finally to appeal, con. i. 8. Our conversation ought to be in holiness and righteousness, answerable to an holy profeffion, cat. 112. 167. Corruption of nature, What, con. vi. 2, 4. cat. 25. A confequence of the fall of man, ibid. Actual fin a fruit of it, con. vi. 4. cat. 25. How it is propagated, cop. vi. 3. cat 26. It doth remain during this life in the regenerate, and all its motions are truly fin, con, vi. 5. xiii. 2. cat. 78. But it is pardoned and mortified through Covenant. No enjoying of God, but by Covenant of Grace, What, con. vii. 3. cat. 30. 32. It was made with Chrift as the fecond Adam, and with all the elect in him as his feed, cat. 31. In it God re. quireth 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 Chrift, cat. 32. Who is the Mediator of this covenant, con. viii. r. cat. 36. Why it is cal led a testament, con. vii. 4. It was differently administred in the time of the law, and in time of the gofpel, con. vii. $. cat. 33. How it was administred under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. How under the gofpel, con. vii. 6. çat. 35. Councils or synods ought to be, con. xxxi. 1. They may be called by the civil magiftrate, 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 fubmiffion due to their decrees, ibid. Not infallible fince the apostles times, con. xxxi. 4. But there determinations are to be tried by the fcriptures, con. i. 10. How far they may meddle in civil affairs, con. xxxi. 5. Creation of the world, cori. iv. r. 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 fakes, fince 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 God's fecrets, discharged, cat. 105, Curious prying into God's decrees forbidden, cat. 113. Curious or unprofitable questions are to be avoided, ibid. The Curse and wrath of God, man liable to it, both by original and actual fin, con. vi. 6. cat. 27. How it may be escaped, con. vii. 3. cat. 153. Curfing, fanful, cat. 113. D DANCING. Lafcivious dancing forbid den, cat. 139. Dead, not to be prayed for, con. xxi. 4. cat. 183. Death, being the wages of sm, 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, ibid. The death of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 49. In it he saw no corruption, con. viii. 4. cat. 52. The divine nature having fuftained the human from finking under the power of death, cat. 38. By his obedience and death, he made a proper, real and full fatisfaction to the justice of the Father, con. xi. 3. cat. 71. Thro' the vir tue of his death and refurrection, belie. vers are sanctified, con. xiii. r. Believers have tellowship with Christ in his death, con. xxvi. 1. And from his death and refurrection they draw strength for the mortifying of fin and quickning of grace, cat. 167. The Lord's supper is a memorial of his death, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. And in that facrament, worthy communicantsmeditate affectionately on his deathand fufferings, 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 deerees, cat. 14. How the doctrine of decrees is to be handled, and what use to be made of them, con, iii. 8. Diligence in our calling, a duty, cat. 141. Dipping in baptifm, not neceffary, com. xxviii. 3. Difcontent at the dispensations of God's providence, finful, 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. χχίν. 6. Dominion. See sovereignty, creatures fin. Doubting of being in Chrift, may confift with a true intereft 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 fecond, cat. 108. In the third, cat. 112. In the fourth, cat. 116. Duties of inferiors to their fuperiors, con. xxiii. 4. cat. 127. What is required of superiors, con. xxiii. 2. cat. 129 Duties of equals, cat. 131. Duties of the fixth 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. Ecclefiaftical perfons not exempted from obedience to the civil magiftrate, con. xxiii. 4. Effectual Calling, What, con. x. 1, cat. 67. It is of God's free grace, not from any thing forefeen in man, con. x. 2. cat. 67. All the elect, and they only are effec tually 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 Chrift, ibid. Election not only to eternal life and glory, but alfo to the means thereof, con. iii. 6. cat. 13. All the elect, and they only, are effectually called and faved, con. iii. 6. x. 1, 4. cat. 68. Thơ' others may be outwardly called by the word, and have some common operations of the Spirit, ibid. Elect infants, and other elect persons who are incapable of being called by the word, how faved, con. x. iii. What use to be made of the doctrine of election, con. iv. 8. And how men may be affured of their eternal election, ibid. See Afsurance. Envy, finful, cat. 128, 136, 142, 145, 148. Equals, their duties and fins, cat. 131, 132. Equivocation, speaking the truth in doubt ful and equivocal expreffions, to the prejudice of truth or justice, finful, cat. 145. Eucharift. See Lord's Supper. Exaltation of Christ, con. viii. 4. cat. 51. In his refarrection, cat. 52. In his afcenfion, cat. 53. In his fitting 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 Chrift, cat. 152. F FAITH, What, con. xiv. 2. cat. 72. God requireth nothing of finners that they may be juftified, but faith in Chrift, 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 finner in the fight of God only as it is an instrument by which he receiveth Chrift and his righteoufnefs, 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. Increafed and strengthned by the word, facra. ments and prayer, ibid. Often weakened, but always gets the victory, con. xiv. 3. Growing up in many to a full afsurance, 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 faving 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 fafting a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. Fellowship. See Communion. Foreknowledge, all things come to pass infallibly according to the foreknowledge of God, con. V. 2. Forgiveness, See Pardon. Fornication committed after contract of marriage, a just ground of diffolving the Fortune. To afcribe any thing to fortune, G GAMING. Wasteful gaming forbidden, cat. 142. Glory. The communion in glory with Christ, which believers enjoy in this life, cat. 83. con. xviii. 1, 2, 3. Immediately after death, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. At the refurrection 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. ii. 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, juftice, 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 manifeftation 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 fin, cat. 139. God. The light of nature sheweth that there is a God, con. xxi. 1. cat.. What it declares concerning him, and of our duty to him, con. i. 1. xxi. 1. It is not fufficient to give that knowledge of God and of his will, which is neceffary unto falvation, 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 perfons in the Godhead, diftinguished by personal properties, con, ii. 3, cat. 9. 10. The co-equality of the perfons 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 contsary 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 Chrift, con. xxi. 2. Cat. 179.181. God is to be worshipped in that way only which he hath inftituted 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. r. Good works. See Works. Gofpel. How the covenant of grace is adminiftred under the gospel, con. vii 6. cat. 35. Without the gospel no falvation, cat. 60. con. x. 4. In it Christ doth not diffolve, but strengthen the obligation to the obedience of the moral law, con. xix. 5. Believers under the gofpel have a great er boldness of access to the throne of grace, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of, con. xx. r. Government. See Church, Magiftrate. The grace of God. Election, of God's mere free grace, con iii. 5. cat. 13. How the grace of God is manifested in the fecond covenant, con vii. 3. cat. 32. Effectual calling is of God's free and special grace, con. x. 2. cat. 67. Juftification 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 faving graces are the work of the Spirit, con. xiii. xiv. and xv. cat. 32, 72, 75. 76, 77. And do always accompany faith, con. xi. 2. cat. 73. Perfeverance in grace, con. xvii. cat. 79. Increase in grace, con. xiii. 1, 3. cat. 75.77 Affurance of grace, con. xviii. cat. 80, 81. H HARDEN. Why and how finners are hardened, con. v. 6. Believers may have their hearts hardened, con. xvii. 3. Head. The elect are infeparably united to Chrift as their head, con. xxv. 1.xxvi. 1. cat. 64. 66. He is the only head of the church, con xxv. б. Hearing. What is required of those that hear the word preached, con. xxi. 5. cat. 100. Heaven, the state of the blessed, con. xxxii. 1. xxxiii. 2. cat. 86.90. Hell, the ftate of the damned, con. xxxii. 1. xxxiii, 2. cat. 29, 86, 89. The meaping 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 counfels, 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 |