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ftrengthned the Obligation to
the Obedience of it, Ibid. And
altho' no Man fince the Fall can,
by the Moral Law, attain to
Righteousness and Life, Con. 19:
6. Cat. 94. Which Chrift alone
hath purchased for the Ele&t by
his perfect Obedience, Con. 8:5.
Yet it is of great Use to all,
Con. 19: 6. Cat. 95. The Ufe of
it to the Regenerate, Con. 19: 6.
Cat. 97.
The Ufe of it to the

Unregenerate, Cat, 96. Not contrary to the Grace of the Gospel, but doth fweetly comply with it, Con. 19: 7. The Spirit of Chrift fubduing and enabling the Will of Man unto a free and chearful Obedience to the Will of God, Con. 19; 7. Cat. 32. Unnecessary L ́a W-SUITS to be avoided, Cat. 141, 142. LIBERTY. Chriftian Liberty, What, Con. 20: 1. Wherein it is inlarged under the Gospel, lbid. The End of Chriftian Liberty, Con. 20: 3. Liberty to Sin inconfiftent with it. Ibid. It is not intended to deftroy Ecclefiaftical or Civil Powers, but to fupport and preserve them, Con. 20: 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 Chris ftianity, or fuch as are deftructive of the Peace and Order of the Church, ibid.

not to be taken away except in cafe of publick Juftice, lawful War, or neceffary Defence, Cat. 136. LIGHT OF NATURE, What may be known of God and of our Duty to him by it, Con. 1: 1. 21: 1. Cat. 2. It is not fufficient to make us Wife untó Salvation, Con. I:I. 10:4, 21:1. Cat. 2,60. It is of the Law of Nature that a due Portion of Time be fet apart for the Worship of God, Con. 21, 7.

Wanton Looks, finful, Cat. 139. LORD'S PRAYER, See Prayer. LORD'S SUPPER. The Inftitu

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tion, Nature and Ends of it, Con. 29; I. Cat. 168. Christ not offered up to his Father, nor any real Sacrifice for Sin made in it, Con, 29: 2. The Mafs abominably injurious to Chrift's one only Sacrifice, ibid. The outward Elements in this Sacrament are not to be adored, Con. 29: 4. They ftill remain truly Bread and Wine, Con, 29: 5. The Doctrine of Transubstantiation is repugnant not only to the Scripture, but even to common Senfe, and has been and is the Caufe of grofs Idolatries, Con, 29:6. How Chrift hath appointed Bread and Wine to be given and received in the Sacrament, Con. 29: 3. Cat. 169. It is only to be adminiftred by a Minifter of the Word lawfully ordained, Con, 27: 4. Cat. 176. It is not to be received by any one alone, Con. 29: 4. It is to be received in both Kinds, ibid. What Relation the Elements in this Sacrament have to Chrift crucified, Con. 29: 5. How Christ is present there, Con. 29, 7. Cat. 170. How Believers feed on him therein, ibid. What Preparation is required for receiving it, Cat.

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171.

171. Doubting may confift with an Intereft in Chrift, Con. 17:3. 18:4. 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, 29: 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 Baptifm, Cat. 176, 177. LOTS, Cat. 112, 113. LOVE. Election is of Gods free

Love, Con. 3: 5. Cat. 13. Which is unchangeable, Con. 17: 2. Cat. 79. and therefore true Believers can neither totally nor finally fall away from the State of Grace, Ibid. The Senfe of God's Love is attainable in this Life, Cat. &3. See Affurance. Love to God is a Duty, Cat. 104. which the Light of Nature fheweth, Con. 21: 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.21: 3. Cat. 185. Love to God and the Brethren is neceffary to right Communicating, Cat. 168, 171, 174. True Believers are never utterly deftitute of the Love of Chrift and the Brethren, Con. 18: 4. Wherein Love towards our Neighbour confifts, 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, finful, Cat. 145.

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what End, ibid, Lawful for Chrl

ftians to accept the Office of a Magiftrate, Con, 23:2. The Du. ty of the Civil Magiftrate, Con. 23:2. Cat. 129. Con. 20:4. Read the Scriptures Letter The Sins of the Magiftrate, Cat. 130, 145. He may wage War upon juft and neceffary Occafions, Con. 23. 2. His Power in Church Affairs ftated, Con. 43. 3. The Duty of the People toward their Magiftrates, Con. 23:4. Cat. 127. Their Sins against them, Cat. 128. Ecclefiaftical Perfons not exempted from Obedience to the civil Magiftrate, Con. 23: 4. The Pope hath no Power or Jurifdiction over Magiftrates or their People, ibid. The Magiftrate is not to be oppofed in the lawful Exercife of his Power, upon pretence of Chriftian Liberty, Con. 20: 4. Infidelity or Difference in Religion doth not make void the Magiftrates juft and legal Authority, Can. 23: 4. MAN, How created, Con.4: 2. Car. His State before the Fall, Con. 4:2. Cat. 17, 20. His Fall and the Effects of it, Con. 6. Cat. 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. His State by the Covenant of Grace, Con. 7:3, 4, 5, 6. Cat. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Man's chief End, Cat. 1. MAN-STEALING, discharged,Cat.

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142. MARRIAGE, the End of it, Con. 24: 2. Cat. 20. Between morę than one Man and one Woman at a Time, unlawful, Con. 24: 1. Cat. 139. Lawful for all Sorts of People who are capable to give their Confent, Con. 24: 3. And who are without the Degrees of Confanguinity or Affinity forbidden in the Scriptures, Cn. 24: 4. But Marriages within those

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Degrees can never be made lawful, ibid. Proteftants fhould not marry with Infidels, Papifts or other Idolaters, Con. 24: 3. Nor fuch as are Godly, with those that are notoriously wicked, ibid. A Contract of Marriage may be diffolved for Adultery or Forniçation committed after the Contract, Con. 24:5. The Bond of Marriage can only be diffolved for Adultery after Marriage, and fuch wilful Desertion as cannot be remedied, Con. 24; 5, 6. Undue Delay of Marriage, prohibiting of lawful, and difpenfing with unlawful Marriages, are finful, Cat. 139. Vows of perpetual fingle Life, are finful Snares in which no Chriftian may intangle himself, Con, 22: 7. Cat. 139. Those who have not the Gift of Continency ought to marry, Cat. 138. The Duties of married Perfons, Cat. 139, 141. The MASS abominably injurious to Chrift's one only Sacrifice, Con. 29: 2.

MEANS. God in his ordinary Providence maketh Ufe of Means; yet is free to Work without, above and against them at his Pleafure, Con. 5:3. The outward and ordinary Means of Salvation under the Law, Con. 7: 5. Cat. 34. Under the Gospel, Con. 7:6. 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. 25: 3. Cat. ISS, 161, 182. Trufting in Means, finful, Cat. 10s. Unlawful Means not to be used, ibid. False MEASURES unlawful, Cat.

142.

MEAT to be moderatly used, Cat. 135, 136.

MEDIATOR, See Chrift.

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The MERCY of God, Cɔn. 2: 1 Cat. 7. It is manifested in his Works of Providence, Con. 5:1. It is of God's free Love and Mercy that the Elect are e delivered from Sin and Misery, and brought to an Estate of Salva tion by the fecond Covenant. Cat. 30. God is Merciful to penitent Sinners in Chrift, Con. 15: 2. Cat. 76. For whofe fake Mercy is to be prayed for, Cat. 180. Works of Mercy are to be done, even on the Lord's Day, Con. 21: 8. Cat. 117. MERIT. No Merit in good Works, for Pardon of Sin or eternal Life, and why, Con. 16: 5. Nor can we merit the outward Bleffings of this Life, Cat. 193. But we

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are to truft in the Merits of Chrift, Cat. 174. Who appear ing in the merit of his Obedience and Sacrifice, maketh Interceffion for his People, Cat. ss. MESSIAH. The Elect under the Old Testament believed in the promised Meffiah by whom they had full Remiffion of Sins, and and eternal Salvation, Con. 7:5. 8:6. Cat. 34.

The MINISTRY given by Chrift to the Visible Church, Con, 25:3. The Maintenance thereof, a Duty, Cat. 108. A Minifter of the Gofpel is one fufficiently gifted, and alfo duly approved and lawfully called and ordained to that Office, Con. 27: 4. 28: 2. Cit. 158. By fuch only the Word is to be read publickly and preached, and the Sacraments difpenfed, Con. 27:4. 28. 2. Cat. 156, 158, 159, 169.

MORAL LAW, See Law. MORTIFICATION. The Regenerate have the Corruption of Nature mortified through Christ, Con. 6:5. And the feveral Lufts

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of the Body of Sin, Con. 13: 1. Believers draw Strength from the Death and Refurrection of Chrift for the mortifying of Sin, Cat. 167.

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AME OF CHRIST. That Prayer be accepted, it is to be made in the Name of Chrift, Con. 21: 3. Cat. 178. What it is to pray in the Name of Chrift, 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 fwear, and therein it is to be ufed with all holy Fear and Reverence, Con. 22: 2. How the Name of God ought to be used, and how it is profaned, Cat. 112, 113,

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It is a Part of Religious Worship, Ibid. The Name of God is that by which Men ought only to fwear, Con. 22: 2. Cat. 108. Vain or rafh fwearing by his Name isto be abhorred, Çon. 22: 2. Cat. 113. yet in matters of Weight and Moment an Oath is warrantable under the New Tetament, Con.22:2, Alawful Oath

impofed by lawful Authority, ought to be taken, Ibid. it is a fin to refuse it, Con. 22: 3. A Man muft fwear nothing but what he is fully perfwaded is truth; neither may he bind himself by Oath to any thing but what he believes to be juft and good, and what he is able to perform, Ibid. An Oath is to be taken in the plain and common Senfe of the Words; and in Things not finful, it binds to Performance, tho' to a Man's own Hurt, or made to Hereticks, Con. 22:4. Cat. 113. But it cannot oblige to Sin, Ibid. OBEDIENCE is due to God in whatfoever he is pleased to command, Con. 2:2. Cat. 104. Chrift hath performed perfect Obedience to the Law for us in our Nature, Con. 8: 4. Cat, 38, 39, 48, 97. And by it purchased an everlafting Inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven for the Elect, Con. 8: 5. Cat. 38. His Obedience is imputed to Believers, Con. 11: 1. Cat. 70. He hath not abolished, but much strengthned the Obligation to the Obedience of the Moral Law, Con. 19: 5. Good Works done in obedience to God's Commands, are the Fruits and Evidences of a true Faith, Con. 16. 2. Cat. 32. How the fincere, tho' imperfect Obedience of Believers, is accepted and rewarded, Con. 16: 6. OBEDIENCE is due to the lawful

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Commands of Magiftrates, Con 23: 4. Cat. 127, 128. OFFICES of Chrift, of Mediator. See Mediator. His Prophetical Office, Cat. 43. Prieftly, Cat. 44. and Kingly, Cat. 45. The OLD TESTAMENT in He brew, is that to which the Church is finally to appeal in Controverfies of Religion, Cm. 1: 8. The

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The Adminiftration of the Covenant of Grace, under the Law, is called The Old Testament, Con. · 7: 5. The ORDINANCES of GOD given by Chrift to the Visible Church, Con. 25: 3. The Ordinances under the Law, Con.7:5 Cat.34. Thofe under the Gospel, Con. 7:6. Cat.3 5. Which are fewer, and adminiftred with more Simplicity, and lefs outward Glory; yet in them Grace and Salvation are held forth in more Fulnefs, Evidence and Efficay, Ibid. 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. 25: 3. Cat. 155, 161, 182. The neglect, Contempt or oppofing them, finful, Cat. 109. ORIGINAL Corruption, See Corruption, Original Sin, See Sin.

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APISTS. Proteftants fhould
not marry with Papifts, Con.

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24: 3. PARDON, See Sin. PASSIONS, to be reftrained, Cat. 135, 136.

PASSOVER, one of the Types and Ordinances by which the Covenant of Grace was adminiftred under the Law, Con. 7: s. Cat.

34.

finally fall away from the Eftate of Grace, Con. 17:1. Cat. 77,79. Upon what their Perfeverance depends, Con.17:2. Cat. 79. How far they may fall, Con. 6: 5. 11: §. 13:2. 17:3, 18:4. Cat. 78. They are always kept from utter Defpair, Con. 18:4. Cat. 81. How they are recovered when they fall under God's fatherly Displea fure, Con. 11:5. 13:3. Three PERSONS in the Godhead diftinguished by perfonal Properties, Con. 2: 3. Cat. 9, 10. The Equality of the Perfons proved, Cat. II.

PATIENCE. Patient bearing of
the Hand of God, a Duty, Cat.
135. Patient bearing and for
giving of Injuries, a Duty, ibid.
PEACE of Confcience, See Con-
Science.

PEDO-BAPTIS M, See Infants.
PERSEVERANCE of Saints.

They whom God hath accepted
in Chrift can never totally nor

The PERSONAL UNION of the
two Natures in Christ, Con, 8: 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.
8: 7. Cat, 40.
PHYSICK to be used moderatly,

Cat. 135.

Lafcivious PICTURES discharged,
Cat. 139.

POLIGAMY, unlawful, Çon. 24: 1.
Cat. 139.

The POPE has no Power or Jurif-
diction over Civil Magiftrates
or their People, Con. 23:4. He
is in no fenfe Head of the Church,
but is Antichrift, Can. 25: 6.
POWERS Ecclefiaftical or Civil,
not to be opposed upon pretence
of Chriftian Liberty, Con. 20:4.
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,
our felves, or any other Crea-
ture, Cat. 105.
PRAYER, What, Cat. 178. The
Duty of all Men, Con. 21:3. To
be made to God only, and why,

Con

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