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ABOUR is to be moderately uled, Cat. 135, 136. Land-marks not to be removed Cat, 143.

Law. the ceremonial law, what Con. 19. 3. It is abrogated now under the new teftament, Con. 19. 3. 20. 1. How the covenant of grace was adminiftred under the law,Con. 7. 5. 8. 6. Cat.34. The judicial law expired with the ftate of the Jews, Con. 19. 4. and obliges no further than the general equity of it requires, Ibid.

The moral law, What, Cat. 93. given to Adam with a power to fulfil it, Con. 4. 2. 19. 1. Cat. 92. The ten commandments the fumof it, Con. 19, 2.Cat.98, Tho' believers are not under it as a covenant, Con, 19. 6. And are not able perfectly to keep it Cat. 149. yet it continues to be a perfect rule of righteousness, Con. 19. 2. Binding all, as well juftified perfons as others.Con. 19. 5. Chrift in the gospel, haIving not abolished, but much ftrengthnedthe obligation to the obedience of it, Ibid. And al tho' no man fince the fall can, by the moral law, attain to righteonfnefs and life, Con. 19. 6. Cat 94. Which Chrift alone hath purchased for the elect by his perfect obedience, Con. 8. 5. Yet it is of great ufe 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 gofpel, but doth fweetly comply with it, Con. 19. 7. The fpirit of Chrift fubduing and enabling the will of man into a free and cheerful obedience to the will of God. Con. 19. 7. Cat. 32. Unnecellary law-fuits to be a-. voided, Cat. 141. 142.

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Liberty, Chriftian liberty. What, Con. 20, 1. Wherein it is inlar

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ged under the gofpel, Ibid. The end of the chriftianliberty, Con. 20. 3. Liberty to fin inconfiftent with it, Ibid. It is not intended to destroyecclefiaftical or civil powers but to fupport and preferve them, Con. 20. 4. Neither are men thereby allowed to publish opinions, or maintain practices, that are con trary to the light of nature, or to the known principles ofchriftianity, or fuch as are deftruEtive of the peace and order of the church Ibid. Liberty of confcience, what, it is, and what repugnant to it, Con. 20. 2. Making men the Lord's of our faith and conscience, uúlawful, Con. 20. 2. Cat. 105. Life, eternal life purchased by Chrift's perfect obedience to the Law, Con. 8. 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 cafeofpublick juftice,lawfulwar, or neceflary defence, Cat. 136. Light of nature, What may be Known of God and of our duty to him by it, Con. 1, 1. 21. I. Cat. 2. It is not fufficient to makeuswifeunto falvation,Con. I, 1. 10. 4. 21,1. 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. 21. 7. Wanton looks, finful, Cat. 139. Lord's prayer, fee prayer. Lord's fupper. The intitution.

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nature and ends of it, Con. 29. 1. at. 168. Chrift not offered up to his Father, nor any real facrifice for fin made in it, Con. 29 2. The mafs abominably injurious to Christ's one only facrifice, lbid. The outward Elements in this facrament are not to be adored, Con. 29. 4. They ftill remaintruly breadand wine, Con. 29. 5. The doctrine of transubstantiation is repug

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and their perfeverance depends upon his continual interceffion for them, Con. 17. 2. Cat 79. Joy in the holy Ghoft,the fruit of affurance, on. 18. 1, 2. Cat. 83. Believers, by falling into fome fins, may grieve the fpirit, and be deprived of fome measure of their comfort, Con. 17, 3. 18.4 Judge Chrift the judge of the world, Con. 8, 4, 13, I. How he fhall come at the last day, Cat. 56.

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The judgments of God upon finners in this world, Con. 5. 6. Cat 28. 83. How believers may bring temporal judgments on themfelve, Con. 17.3. God is juft and terrible in his judgments, Con. 2. 1. The laft judgment, what, Con. 33.1. Appointed for angels and men, Con. 8. 4. 33, I. Cat. 88. The end of its appointment, is the manifeftation of God's mercy and juftice, Con. 33, 2. Chrift fhall be the judge, Con. 8, 4, 33 1, How he fhall come to judge the world, Cat. 56. Why he would have us certainly perfwaded of it, Con, 33.3 Why the time of it isconcealed, Con, 33, 3. Cat. 88. The judgment of the righteous, Con. 33. 2. Cat. 90. The judgment of the wicked, Con, 33. 2. Cat 89. Judicial law. See law.

The juftice of God, fully latisfied by Chrift's obedience & death, Con. 8, 5. 11, 3. Cat. 38, 71. It is manifefted in the works of providence, Con, 5, 1. In the juftification of finners, Con. 11. 3. In the last judgment, Con 33. 2.

Juftice in contract and commerce between man and man,Cat. 141. 142,

Juftification, What, Con. 11. 1. Cat 70. All the elect, and they only, are juftified, Con 3. 6. Whom God did from all eternity decree to juftify, Con.

11. 4. But they are not justified till the holy Spirit doth in due time actually apply thrift unto them, Ibid.How juftification is of God's free grace, Con.11.3. Cat: 71. Faith is neceffarily required for juftification, Cat. 71. But it juftifies a finner only as it is an inftrument,by which he receivethChrift and his righteoufnefs, Con.11,1, 2. Cat. 73. The exact juftice, and rich grace of God,are both glorified in thejuftification of finners, Con. 11.3. juftification,of finners, Con, 11, 3.juftification thefame under the oldteftament, as under the new, Con. 11.6It is infeparably joined with fanctification, Cat. 77. how they differ,Ibid. Those that are juftified are perfectly freed in this life from the revenging wrath of God, that they never fall into condemnation,Con. 17. 1.Cat. 77,79. Butcorruption remaining in them,Con. 6,5, 13,2 Cat.70, They fall into many fins, Con 7,3. Ct 78 Which God continues to forgive,upon their humbling themtelves, confeffing their fins, begging pardom, and renewing their faith and repentance, Con. 11. 5.

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what, Con.30. 2, Committed to church-officers, Ibid. The civil magiftrate may not affume this power Con. 23.3. KING. Chrift the King of his church,Con. 30. 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. 2.2. The knowledge which may be had of God and of our duty to him by the light of nature, Con 1, 1, 21.1. Cat. 1 The Scriptures are only fufficient to give that knowledge of God & of his will, which is necellary unto falvation, Ibid.

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ABOUR is to be moderately used, Cat. 135, 136. Land-marks not to be removed Cat, 143.

Law. the ceremonial law, what Con. 19. 3. It is abrogated now under the new teftament, Con. 19. 3. 20. 1. How the covenant of grace was adminiftred under the law,Con. 7. 5. 8. 6. Cat.34. The judicial law expired with the ftate of the Jews, Con. 19. 4. and obliges no further than the general equity of it requires, Ibid.

The moral law, What, Cat. 93. given to Adam with a power to fulfil it, Con. 4. 2. 19. 1. Cat. 92. The ten commandments the fumof it, Con. 19, 2 Cat.98, Tho' believers are not under it as a covenant, Con, 19. 6. And are not able perfectly to keep it Cat. 149. yet it continues to be a perfect rule of righteoufnefs, Con. 19. 2. Binding all, as well juftified perfons as others.Con. 19. 5. Chrift in the gospel, ha ving not abolished, but much ftrengthnedthe obligation to the obedience of it, Ibid. And al tho' no man fince the fall can, by the moral law, attain to righteonfnefs and life, Con. 19. 6. Cat 94. Which Chrift alone hath purchased for the elect by his perfect obedience, Con. 8. 5. Yet it is of great ufe 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 fpirit of Chrift fubduing and enabling the will of man into a free and cheerful obedience to the will of God. Con. 19. 7. Cat. 32.

Unnecellary law-fuits to be a-.

voided, Cat. 141. 142. Liberty, Chriftian liberty. What, Con. 20, 1. Wherein it is inlar

ged under the gospel, Ibid. The end of the chriftianliberty, Con. 20. 3. Liberty to fin inconfiftent with it, Ibid. It is not intended to destroyecclefiaftical or civil powers but to fupport and preferve them, Con. 20. 4. Neither are men thereby allowed to publish opinions, ur maintain practices, that are con trary to the light of nature, or to the known principles ofchriftianity, or fuch as are deftructive of the peace and order of the church Ibid.

Liberty of confcience, what, it is, and what repugnant to it, Con. 20. 2. Making men the Lord's of our faith and conscience, uulawful, Con. 20. 2. Cat. 105. Life, eternal life purchased by Chrift's perfect obedience to the Law, Con. 8. 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 cafeo publick juftice,lawfulwar, or neceflary 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 makeuswifeunto falvation,Con. I, 1. 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, fee prayer. Lord's fupper. The intitution.

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nature and ends of it, Con. 29. 1. at 168. Chrift not offered up to his Father, nor any real facrifice for fin made in it, Con. 29 2. The mafs abominably injurious to Chrift's one only facrifice, lbid. The outward Elements in this facrament are not to be adored, Con. 29. 4. They ftill remaintruly breadand wine, Con. 29. 5. The doctrine of tranfubftantiation is repug

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Mant not only to the scripture, but even to common fenfe, and has been and is the caule of grofs idolatries,Con. 29.6.HowChrift hath appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the facrament, Con 20.3 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 facrament have to Chrift crucified, Con 29.5. HowChrift is prefent there, Con. 29.7. Cat. 170. How believers feed on him therein, ibid. What preparation is required for receiving it, Cat. 171 Doubting may confift with an intereft inChrist, Con. 17, 3, 18, 4. Cat 81. And therefore fhouldnot hinder from partaking of the Lord's fupper, Cat. 172. But the ignorant and fcandalous are not to be admitted, Con. 29, 8. Cat. 173. What duties required in the time of receiving, Cat. 174. What duties aft r receiving, Cat. 175. Frequent attendance on it, a duty, Cat. 175. 177. The agreement and difference between the Lord's fupper, and baptifm, Cat.176, 177. Lots, Cat. 112. 113.

Love. Election of God's free love, Con. 3.5. Cat.13. Which is unchangeable,Con. 17. 2. Cat. 79. And therefore true believers can neither totally norfinally fall away from the ftate of grace, ibid. The fenfe of God's love is attainable in this life, Cat. 83. 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 fum of our duty to him, Cat. 102. Love to God is neceffary to the right performance of the duty of prayer, Con. 21.3. Cat. 185. Love to God and the brethren is necef

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Agiftrates, appointed by God, Con. 23. 1. For what end, ibid. Lawful for chriftians to accept the office of a magiftrate, Con. 23. 2. The duty of the civil magiftrate, Єon. 23. 2. Cat. 129. Con. 20. 4. Read the fcriptures letter r. The fins of the magistrate, Cat. 130. 145. He may wage war upon juft and necellary occafions, Con. 23. 2. His power in church affairs ftated, Con.23. 3. The duty of the peopletowards theirmagiftrates, Con. 23.4. Cat.127. Their fins against them, Cat. 128. Ecclefiaftical perfons not exempted from obedience to the civil magiftrate, Con. 23. 4. The pope hath no power or jurifdiction ever magiftrates or their people, ibid. The magiftrate is not to be oppofed in the lawful exercife of his power, upon pretence of christian liberty, Con. 20.4. Infidelity or difference in religion doth not make void the magi ftrate's juft and legal authority,

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than one man and one woman Meat to be moderately used, Cat, at a time,unlawful, Con. 24, 1. 135.136. Cat, 39. Lawful for all forts of Mediator. See Chrift. people who are capable to give their confent, Con, 24, 3. And who are without the degrees of confanguinity or affinity forbiddenin the Scriptures,Con.244. But marriages within thofe 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 thofe that arenotoriously wicked bid. A contract of marriage may be diffolved for adultery or fornication committed after the con

tract, Con, 24. 5. The bond of marriage can only be diffolved for adultery after marriage, and fuch wilful defertion as cannot be remedied, Con.24, 5,6. Undue delay of marriage, prohibiting of lawful & difpenfing with unlawful marriages are finful, Cat. 139. Vows of perpetual fingle life, are finful fnares in which no chriftian may intangle himfelf, Con. 22, 7. Cat. 139. Thofe who have not the gift of continency ought to marry, Cat. 138. The duties of married perfons, Cat. 139, 141, The mafs abominable injurious to Chrift's one only facrifice, 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 pleasure, Con.5.3. The outward and ordinary means of falvation under the law. Con. 7. 5.Cat. 34. Under the golpel, Con. 7. 6. Cat. 35, 154 The diligent uíe of them is required in order to efcape the wrath of God, Cat. 153, How they are made effectual. Con. 25,3. Cat. 155, 161, 182. Trufting in means finful,Cat. 105 Unlawful means not to be ufed, Ibid.

Falfe measures unlawful, Cat. 142

The mercy of God, Con. 2, Cat, 7. It is manifefted in his works of providence, Con. 5, 1a It is of God's free love and mercy that the elect are delivered from fin and mifery,& brought to an estate of falvation by the fecond covenant, Cat. 30. God is merciful to penitent finners in Chrift, Con. 15, 2. Cat. 79. 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

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Merit. No merit in good worksfor pardon of fin or eternal life; and why, Con. 16. 5. Nor can we merit the outward bleffings of this life, Cat. 193. But we are to truft in the merits of Chrift, Cat. 14. Who appearing in the merit of his obedience and facrifice, maketh interceffion for his people, Cat. 55. Meffiah. The elect under the Old Teftament believed in the promifed Meffiah, by whom they had a full remiffion of fins, and eternal falvation, Con.7,5, 8, 6, Cat. 34.

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miniftry given by Christ to the vifible church, Con. 25. 3. the maintainance thereof,aduty, 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. Cat. 158. By fuch only the word is to be read publicly and preached, & the facraments 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 Chrift, Con. 6. 5. And the feveral lufts of the body of fin, Con. 13. 1. Believers draw ftrength from

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