con. XXX. iv. Penitent sinners are to be
absolved from censures, con. xxx. 2.
Censuring. Rash, harsh, and partial cen-
suring sinful, cat. 145.
Ceremonial law. See Law.

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

Charms unlawful, cat. 113.
Chastity, cat. 138.

Children that die in infancy, how saved, con.
x. 3. The children of such as 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 Me-
diator between God and man, con. viii. 1.
cat. 36. Who being very God, of one sub-
stance, 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 dis-
charged it, con. iv. 8. By his perfect obe-
dience and sacrifice of himself, he pur-
chased 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, Ex-
piation, Humiliation, Imputation, Inter-
cession, Judge, Merit, Messiah, Name of
Christ, Personal Union, Propitiation,
Reconciliation, Redemption, Resurrection,
Righteousness, Sacrifice, Salvation, Satis-
faction, Surety.

Christian liberty. See Liberty.

Church, the, is the object of God's special
providence, con. v. 7. cat. 63. Christ the
only head of it, con. viii. 1. xxv. 6. The
catholick church invisible, what, con. xxv.
1. cat. 64. Given to Christ from all eter-
nity, con. viii. 1. The benefits which the
members of it enjoy by Christ, cat. 65, 66,
69, 82, 83, 86, 90. The catholick 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 ac-
cording to his will, ib.

Church-censures. See Censures.
Church-government appointed by the Lord
Jesus in the hand of church-officers, dis-
tinct from the civil magistrate, con. xxx.
1. cat. 45, 108. But they are not exempted
from obedience to the magistrate, con.
xxiii. 4. They have the power of the keys
committed to them, con. xxx. 2. What
that power is, and its use, con. xxx. 2, 3,
4. They are not to be opposed in the law-
ful exercise of their powers upon pretence

of Christian liberty, con. xx. 4. See Corm
cils. There are some circumstances con-
cerning church-government, which are to
be ordered by the light of nature and Chris-
tian 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
unto the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34.

Civil magistrate, or civil powers. See Magis
trate.

The

Commandments, the Ten, 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 Com-
mandment, cat. 103-106. The second, cat.
107-110. The third, cat. 111-114.
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 per-
fectly, cat. 149.

Communion, the. 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' com-
munion with Christ, and with each other,
as members of his mystical body, con. xxix.
1. The communion of saints doth not in-
fringe 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. Im-
mediately 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.

Company, unchaste, 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 of-
fending brother is to be received in love, ib.
Conscience. See Liberty of Conscience. Peace
of conscience a fruit of the sense of God's
13 love, con. xviii. 1, 8. cat. 83. Believers
may fall into sins which wound the con-
science, con. xvii. 8. 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

85. 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. Grace, the, 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 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. Holy Ghost, the, 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.

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. Inclosures and depopulations, unjust, 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. 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. Innocency. The state of man in innocency, con. iv. 2. cat. 17, 20. 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 Christmakes 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.

J

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

Jesus, why so called, cat. 41. See Christ. Joy in the Holy Ghost, the fruit of assurance,

con. xviii. 1, 2. cat. 83. Believers, by fall

ing 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. Judgments, the, 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, Judgment, the last, 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.

Justice, the, 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.

K

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

King. Christ the King of his church, con. xxx. 1. How he executeth the office of a king, cat. 45. What meant by the coming of his kingdom, cat. 191. Knowledge. God's knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, con. ii. 2. The knowledge which may be had of God and of our duty to him by the

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. Law, the Judicial, expired with the state of the Jews, con.xix. 4. And obliges no further than the general equity of it requires, ib. Law, the Moral, 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 not 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 righteous ness and life, con. xix. 6. cat. 94. Which Christ alone hath purchased for the elect by his perfect obedience, con. viii. 5. Yet it is of great use to all, con. xix. 6. cat, 95. The use of it to the regenerate, con. xix. 6. cat. 97. The use of it to the unregenerate, cat. 96. Not contrary to the grace of the gospel, but doth sweetly comply with it, con. xix. 7. The Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man unto a free and cheerful obedience to the will of God, con. xix. 7. cat. 32.

Law-suits, unnecessary, 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. Looks, wanton, sinful, cat. 139. Lord's Prayer. See Prayer.