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The sum of the first four com-
mandments, 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 en-
joyment of it is one of the privi-
leges of the visible church, cat. 63.
In the Lord's supper communi-
cants 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 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. Immediately af-
ter death, cat. 86. At the resur-
rection 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. 189. Nor corrupt communi-
cations 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 co-
venant 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 Con
science. 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. 147.
Discontentment with our own
estate a sin, cat. 148.
Controversies. It belongs to synods
and councils ministerially to deter
mine controversies of faith, and
cases of conscience, con. xxxi. 3.
The Spirit speaking in the scrip-
tures 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.
Our Conversation ought to be in
holiness and righteousness, answer-
able to an 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. cet.
78. But it is pardoned and mor
tified through Christ, con. vi. 5.
Covenant. No enjoying of God but
by way of covenant, con. vii, 1.

Covenant

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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 dif ferently 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, eat. 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 sanc-
tified, 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.
in that sacrament worthy com-
municants meditate affectionately
on his death and sufferings, cat.
174. And receive and feed
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upon

And

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 unlaw

ful, 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 publick and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed in it, con. xxiv. 6. Dominion, tures, Sin. Doubting of being in Christ, may

See Sovereignty, Crea

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.

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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 inca pable 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 assured of their eternal election, ib. See Assurance.

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Envy sinful, cat. 128, 136, 142, 145,

148.

Equals, their duties and sins, cat. 131,

132.

Equivocation.

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. 78. Faith is the gift of God, con. xi. 1. cat. 71. It being the work of the Spirit, con. xiv. 1. cat. 59, 72. It is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the word, con. xiv. 1. Increased and strengthened by the word, sacraments, and prayer, ib. Often weakened, but always gets the victory, con. xiv. 3. Growing up in many to a full assurance, con. xiv. 3, cat. 80. Good works the fruit and evidence of true faith, con. xvi. 2. cat. 52. Which is never alone, but always accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love, con. xi. 2. cat. 73. Fall of man, the nature and effects of it, con. vi. cat. 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29. Why permitted, con. vi. 1. How all mankind concerned in it, con. vi. 3. cat. 22.

Falling away. See Perseverance. Family worship daily, required of God, con. xxi. 6.

Fasting. Religious fasting, a duty, cat. 108. Solemn fasting a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. Fellowship. See Communion. Foreknowledge. All things come to pass infallibly according to the foreknowledge of God, con. v. 2. Forgiveness. See Pardon. Fornication committed after contract of marriage, a just ground of dissolving the contract, con. xxiv. 5. Fortune. To ascribe any thing to fortune, is sinful, cat. 105. Free-will. See Will. Frugality, a duty, cat. 141.

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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. 189. Cc 4

God

God. The light of nature sheweth 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, on. 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. vi. 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, Magi

strate. The Grace of God. Election is of God's mere free grace, con. iii. 5. How the grace of God

cat. 13.

is manifested in the second cove nant, 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, éon. xviii. cat. 80, 81.

HARDEN.

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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, can. xxxii. 1.cat.86,90, See Sanctification.

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