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cat. 113. But it cannot oblige to fin, Ibid. abedience is due to God in whatsoever he is pleased to command, con. ii. 2. cat. 104. Chrift hath performed perfect obedience to the law for us in our nature, con. viii. 4. cat. 38, 39. 48, 97. And by it purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven for the elect, con. viii. 5 cat. 38. His obedience is imputed to believers, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. He hath not abolished, but much strengthened the obligation to the obedience of the moral law, con. xix. 5.. Good works done in obedience to God's commands, are the fruits and evidences of a true faith, con, xvi. 2. cat. 31. How the fincere, though imperfect obedience of believers, is accepted and rewarded, con. xvi 6.

Obedience is due to the lawful commands of

a magistrate, con. xxiii. 4. cat. 127, 128.

Offices of Chrift, of Mediator. See Media

tor. His prophetical office, cat. 43. Priefly, cat. 44. And kingly, cat. 45. The Old Testament in Hebrew, is that to which the church is finally to appeal in controverfies of religion, con. i. 8. The administration of the covenant of grace, under the law, is called the Old Festament, con vii. 5.

The ordinances of God given by Christ to the visible church, con. xxv. 3 The ordinances under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. Thofe under the gospel, con vii. 6. cat. 35. Which are fewer, and admini ftred with more fimplicity, and lefs outward glory; yet in them grace and falvation are held forth in more fulness, evidence and efficacy, ibid. All God's ordinances, efpecially the word, facraments

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prayer, are the outward and ordinary means of falvation, cat. 154 How they are made effectual, con. xxv. 3. cat 155, 161, 182. The neglect, contempt or oppofing them, finful, cat. 109. Original corruption, See corruption original in, See fin.

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PAPISTS. Proteftants should not marry

with papifts, con. xxiv. 3,

Pardon. See fin.

Paffions, to be restrained, cat. 135 136. Paffover, one of the types and ordinances by which the covenant of grace was adminiftred under the law, con. vii. 5. cat.

34.

Patience, patient bearing of the hand of God, a duty, cat. 135. patient bearing and forgiving of injuries, a duty, ibid. Peace of confcience, See confcience. Pedo-Baptifm, See infants. Perfeverance of faints. They whom God hath accepted in Chrift can never totally or finally fall away from the estate of grace, con. xvii. 1. cat. 77, 79. Upon what their perfeverance depends, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79. How far they may fall, con. vi. 5. xi. 5. xiii. 2. xvii. 4. xviii. 4. cat. 78. They are always kept from utter despair, con. xviii. 4. cat. 81. How they are recovered when they fall under God's fatherly displeasure, con. xi 5. xiii 3. Three perfons in the Godhead diftinguished by perfonal properties, con. ii. 3. cat. 6, 10. The equality of the perfons proved, cat. 11 The perfonal union of the two natures in Christ, con. viii. 2. cat. 36, 37. By reafon of this union, the proper works of each nature are accepted of God, and relied on by believers as the work of the whole perfon, con viii 7. cat. 40. Phyfick to be used moderately, cat 135. Lafcivious pictures difcharged, cat. 139. Poligamy unlawtul, con. xxiv. 1. cat. 139. The Pope has no power or jurisdiction over

civil magistrates or their people, con. xxiii. 4. He is in no fenfe head of the church, but is antichrift, con. xxv. 6.

Powers ecclefiaftical or civil, not to be op, pofed upon pretence of Christian liberty,

con. xx. 4 power of the keys, Sec keys. Praifes to be joined with prayer, cat 196. The praife of any good, we either are, have, or can do, not to be afcribed to fortune, idols, ourselves, or any other creature,

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Prayer, What, cat. 178. The duty of all men, con. xxi. 3. To be made to God only, and why, con. xxi. 2. cat. 179. That it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of Chrift, by the help of the Spirit, çon. xxi. 3. cat. 178. What it is to pray in the name of Christ, cat. 180. Why prayer is to be made in his name, cat, 181. How the Spirit helps to pray, cat. 182. How prayer is to be made, con. xxi. 3. cat. 185. For what and for whom we are to pray, con. xii. 4. cat. 183, 184. Prayer not to be made for the dead, nor for those of whom it may be known that they have finned the sin unto death, ibid. Prayer, now under the gofpel, is not made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, nor towards which it is directed, con. xxi. 6. The rule of prayer, cat. 186.

The Lord's Prayer, How to be used, cat.

187. It is explained in the catechifm` from question 188, to the end. Preaching of the word, is a part of the or

dinary religious worthip of God, con. xxi. 5. And one of the ordinances in which the covenant of grace is adminiftred under the New Testament, con. vii. 6. cat. 35. None are to preach the word, but minifters of the gospel, cat. 158. How they are to preach, cat. 159. How the preaching of the word is made effectual to falvation, cat. 155. Predeftination, con. iii. 3, 4. cat. 13. The

doctrine of predeftination how to be handled, and what ufe to be made of it, con. iii. 8.

Preparation required to the hearing of the

word, cat. 160. What preparation requifite to the fabbath, cat. 117. What to the Lord's fupper, cat. 171. Prefcience, See foreknowledge.

Priestly office of Christ, how executed, cat.

44.

Private worship in families daily, a duty, con.

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powerful preferving, directing, difpofing and governing all his creatures and all their actions; according to his infallible foreknowledge, and immutable decree; to the glory of his wisdom, power, juftice, goodness and, mercy, con. v. I. cat. 18. Events are ordered according to the nature of second causes, con. iii. 1. v. 2. God in his ordinary providence maketh ufe of means, yet is free to work without, above and against them at his pleasure, con. v. 3. How providence is exercifed about fin, con. v. 4. See fin. The actual influence of the Holy Spirit is required to do good works, con. xix. 3. God's providence towards angels, cat. 16. Toward man when created, cat. 10. God's providence is in a moft fpecial manner over his church, con. v. 7. cat. 43, 45, 63.

Publick worship not to be neglected, con.

xxi. 6.

Punishment. See fin.

Purgatory, the fcripture acknowledgeth no fuch place, con. xxxii. 2.

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UARRELLING at God's decrees and providences, finful, cat. 113.

Privileges of the invisible church and of the Quarrelling, and provoking words sinful,

xxi. 6. cat. 156.

visible, See church.

Prodigality, a fin, cat. 142.

cat. 136.

Questions that are curious or unprofitable

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are to be avoided. cat. 113.

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READING the fcriptures, a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. How made effectual to falvation, cat. 155. It is the duty of all to read them apart by themfelves, and with their families, con. i. 8. cat. 159. How the word of God is to

be read, con. xxi. 5 cat. 157. Rebellion, a fin, cat. 128. Reconciliation with God purchased by Chrift's facrifice of himself, con. viii. 5.

cat. 44.

Recreations to be moderately used, cat. 135, 136. But not on the Lord's day, con. xxi. 8. cat. 119. Redemption, how purchased by Christ, con. viii. 5. cat. 38, 39, 40. For all the elect, and them only, con. iii. 6. To whom it is certainly applied, con. viii. 8. cat. 59. Altho' it was not actually wrought by Chrift till after his incarnation; yet the virtue, efficacy and benefits of it, were communicated to the elect in all ages fucceffively from the beginning of the world, con. viii. 6. How it is applied to them, con. viii. 8. cat. 58, 59. Regeneration, See Effectual Calling. The Regenerate are all freely justified, con.

xi. 1. See Juflification. And fanctified, con. xiii. 1. See Sanctification. The corruption of nature remains in them, and all the motions of it are fin, con. ix. 5. But it is pardoned and mortified through Chrift, ibid. The ufe of the moral law

to them, con. xix. 6. cat. 97. Repentance, What, con. xv. 2. cat. 75.

Altho' it be no fatisfaction for fin, nor cause of pardon, yet no pardon without it, con. xv. 3. cat. 153. Nor codemnation where it is, con. xv. 4, 9. It is c

very man's duty to endeavour to repent particularly of his particular fins, con. xv. 5. The doctrine of repentance to be preached by every minister, as well as that of faith in Christ, con. xv. 1. Repentance to be declared to those that are offended, who are thereupon to be reconciled, con. xv. 6.

Reprobation, con iii. 7. cat. 3.

Refurrection of Chrift, con. viii. 4. cat. 52.

The effect of his own power, cat. 52.

It is a proof of his being the Son of God, and of his fatisfaction to divine juftice, &c. ibid. It is an affurance to believers of their refurrection, ibid. They have fellowship with him in his refurrection, con. xxvi I. He rofe again for their juftification, con. xi. 4 cat. 52. And through the virtue of his death and refurrection they are fanctified, con. xiii. 1. cat. 75. They draw ftrength from his death and refurrection for the mortifying of fin, and quickning of grace,

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The Refurrection of the dead, of the juft and unjust, con. xxxii. 2, 3. cat. 87. Revelation. The divers ways of God's revealing his will, con. i. 1. Righteoufnefs. Man was created righteous after the image of God, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. But by fin he fell from that original righteoufnefs, con. vi. 2. cat. 25. And fince the fall no man can attain to righteoufnefs by the moral law, cat. 64. Nor by having righteoufnefs infufed into them, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. But those whom God effectually calleth, he accepteth and accounteth as righteous, by imputing the obedience and fatisfaction of Chrift to them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteoufnefs by faith, ibid. See Faith, Imputation, Juftification. Why the righteous are not delivered from death, cat. 85. Their state immediately after death, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. At the refurrection and day of judgment, con. xxxii. 3. xxxiii. 2. cat. 87, 90.

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SABBATH. By the law of nature, a due

proportion of time ought to be fet apart for the worship of God, con. xxi. 7. God hath in his word, by a pofitive and perpetual commandment, binding all men in all ages, appointed one day in feven for a fabbath to be kept holy to himself, con. xxi. 7. cat. 20. 116.

Which was the last day of the week from the beginning of the world to the refyrrection of Christ, and the first day ever fince, and fo to continue to the end of the world, con. xxi. 7. cat. 116. How the fabbath is to be fanétified, con. xxi. 8. cat. 117. How it is profaned, cat. 116. Why we are commanded to remember it, cat 121. The Lord's day is a memorial of our creation and redemption, which contain a short abridgment of religion, ibid. What are the reafons annexed to the fourth command the more to enforce it, cat. 120. Why the charge of keeping the fabbath is directed to governors of families and other fuperiors, cat. 118.

A Sacrament. The inflitution, nature and euds of it, con. xxvii. 1. cat. 162. The parts of a facrament, con. xxvii. 2, cat. 193. There are only two facraments inftituted by Christ, con. xxvii. 4. oat. 164. Which are only to be dispensed by minifters of the word lawfully ordained, con. xxvii. 4. How they are made effectual to falvation, con. xxvii. 3. cat. 161. The facraments of the Old Tellament were the fame for fubftance with thofe of the New, con. xxvii. 5. Wherein the facraments of baptism, and of the Lord's fapper agree, cat. 176. Wherein they differ, cat. 177.

Sacrifice. The covenant of grace was adn i

niftred under the law by facrifices, con. vii. 5. viii. 6 cat. 34. Which fignified Christ to come, ibid. Who hath fully fatisfied the justice of his Father, in his once offering himself a facrifice without fpot to God, con. viii 5. cat. 44. There is no real facrifice made for fin in the Lord's fupper, con. xxix 2. That facrament being inftituted for the perpetual remembrance of Chrift's one only facrifice in his death, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. To which the mass is most abominably injurious, con xxix. 2. Saints, See Believers, Communion They are not to be worshipped, con. xxi. cat.

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Salvation, Not to be attained by men who do not profefs the Christian religion be they never fo diligent to live up to the light of nature, or the law of that religion which they profefs, con. x. 4. cat. 60. There being no falvation but in Christ alone, ibid. Who hath purchased it by his perfect obedience and facrifice of himfelf, con. viii. 5. cat. 83. For all the eelect, and them only, con. iii 6. To whom the outward means are made effectual for their falvation by the Spirit, con. vii. 5, 6. xxv. 3. cât. 154. 155, 161, 192. Who worketh in their hearts faith in Jefus Chrift, con. xiv. 1. cat. 71. Which is neceffarily required of them for their justification and falvation, con. vii. 3. xi. 1. cat. 32, 71. The Spirit alfo worketh repentance, and infuseth all other faving graces, con. xiii. 1. cat. 32, 75. 76, 77. Which neceffarily accompany faith, con. xi. cat. 73. The Spirit likewife enables them unto all obedience and the practice of holiness, which is the way that God hath appointed them to falvation, con. xiii. 1. cat. 32. Elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated ard faved by Christ thro' the Spirit, &e.

con. X. 3.

Sanctification, what, cou. xiii. 1. cat 75. In

feparably joined with juftification, cat. 77. Wherein they differ, ibid It is throughout in the whole man, con. xiii. 2. cat. 75. But in this life it is not perfect in any, con. xiii z cat. 77. Whence this imperfection proceeds, con. xiii. 2. cat. 78. hrough the continual supply of strength from the fanctifying Spirit of Christ, the faints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, con. xiii. 3. At death they are made perfeâ in holincfs, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. And at the day of judgment they shall be fully and fer ever freed from all fin, cat. 90. Satisfaction. Repentance is no fatisfaction for fin, con. xv. 3. Nor good works, and why, con. xvi. 5. Neither we nor any other creature can make the leaft fatisfaction for fin, cat. 194. Christ alone

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hath made a proper, real and full fatisfaction to the justice of his Father by his obedience and sufferings, con. viii. 5. xi. 5. cat. 38, 71. Which fatisfaction is imputed to believers, they receiving and resting on Chrift and his righteousness by faith, con. xi. I cat. 70. Scandalous, not to be admitted to the Lord's

table, con xxix. 8. cat 173. Scoffing and Scorning, finful, cat. 113. 145. The scripture, Why neceffary, con i. 1. What books to be owned for fcripture, con. i. 2, 3 cat. 3. How proved to be the word of God, con i. 5. cat. 4. Upon what authority the feripture ought to be believed and obeyed, con. i 4. The fufficiency and perfection of the scripture, con i, 6 cat. 2, 5. Its perfpicuity, con. xvii. The infallible rule of interpreting fcripture, is the fcripture itself, con. i. 9. The fcripture is the only rule of faith and practice, con. i. 2. cat. 3, 5. And of worship con. xxi. 1. cat. 108, 109. The Spirit fpeaking in the feriptures, is the fupreme judge of all controverfies in religion, con i. 10. The original text of the fcriptures, is that to which the church is finally to appeal, con. i. 8. But they are to be tranflated into vulgar languages, con. i. 8. cat. 156. Because all forts of people have an intereft in them and are commanded to read them, ibid. How they are to be read, cat. 157. The illumination of the Spirit of God is neceflary for the faving understanding of the feriptures, con. i. 6. cat. 157 How the reading of the word is made effectual to falvation, cat. 355 Mifinterpreting, mitapplying, or any way perverting the word, or any part of it to profane jefts, is finful, cat. 113.'

Sin, what, cat. 24. Original fin, what, cat. 25. The fin of our first parents, con. vi. 1. cat. 21. By it they fell from their original righteousness, and communion with God and had their natures wholly corrupted, con. vi. 2. cat. 25, 27. The guilt of this fin is imputed, and the corruption of

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nature conveyed to all their pofterity, con. vi. 3. cat. 22, 26. Who are thereby bound over to the wrath of God and curfe of the law, con vi. 6. cat. 27, 194. From the original corruption of nature, all Actual Sins proceed, con. vi. 4. cat. 25. Which are not all equally hainous, cat. 150. The aggravations of fin, cat. 151. The demerit of every fin, con. vi. 6. cat. 152. Punishments of fin in this world, con. v. 5, 6. xvii. 3. xviži. 4. cat. 28, 3. In the world to come, con. xxxii. I. xxxiii. 2 cat. 29, 86, 89. Sin is pardoned for Chrift's fake alone, con. xi. 1. xv. 3. cat. 70. See Justification, Satisfaction. Every man bound to pray for pardon of fin, con. xv. 6. God continues to pardon the fins of those that are justified, con. xi. 5. How pardon of fin is to be prayed for, cat. 194. The fin unto death, con. xxi. 4. cat. 183. Believers have the dominion of the whole body of fin destroyed, and the lufts thereof more and more weakened and mortified, con. vi. 5. xiii. 1. cat. 75. See Mortification, Sanctification. How providence is exercised about fin, con. v. 4. Why God permitted the fin of our first parents, con. vi. 1. Why he leaves his children to fall into fin, con. v. 5. Why and how finners are hardned, con.

v. 6. cat. 68.

Sins against the first commandment, cat.

105. Against the fecond, cat. 109. Against the third, cat. 113. Against the fourth, cat. 119. Sins of inferiors, cat. 128. Sins of fuperiors, cat. 130. Sins of equals, cat. 132. Sins against the fixth commandment, cat 136. Against the feventh, 139. Against the eighth, cat. 142. Against the ninth, cat. 145. Against the tenth, cat. 148. Sincerity Believers love Chrift in fincerity

con. xviii. 1. They are never utterly deftitute of fincerity of heart, con. xviii.` 4. Minifters ought to preach fincerel ̧. cat. 159. We are to pray with fincerity, cat. 185. God is pleafed to accept and reward the good works of believers,

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