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Messiah. The elect under the Old Testament believed in the promised Messiah, by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation, con. vii. 5. viii. 6. cat. 34.

The Ministry given by Christ to the visible church, con. xxv. 3. The maintenance thereof a duty, cat. 108. A minister of the gospel is one sufficiently gifted, and also duly approved and lawfully called and ordained to that office, con. xxvi. 4. xxviii. 2. cat. 158. By such only the word is to be read publicklyand preached,and the sacraments dispensed, con. xxvii. 4. xxviii. 2. cat. 156, 158, 159, 169. Moral Law. See Law. Mortification. The regenerate have the corruption of nature mortified through Christ, con. vi. 5.

And the several lusts of the body of sin, con. xiii. 1 Believers draw strength from the death and resurrection of Christ for the mortifying of sin, cat. 167.

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THE Name of Christ. That prayer be accepted, it is to be made in the name of Christ, con. 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.

The Name of God is only that by which men ought to swear, and therein it is to be used with all holy fear and reverence, con. xxii. 2. How the name of God ought to be used, and how it is profaned, cat. 112, 113, 114, 190. Nature. See Corruption, Original Sin, Light of Nature. The two Natures of Christ.

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Christ, Incarnation, Personal Union. The New Testament in Greek is that to which the church is finally to appeal in controversies of reigion, con. i. 8. The administra

tion of the covenant of grace under the gospel is called the New Testament, con. vii. 6. Neighbour. See Charity, Love. Niggardliness sinful, cat. 142.

AN Oath, what it is, con. xxii. 1. It is a part of religious worship, ib. The name of God is that by which men ought only to swear, con. xxii. 2. cat. 108. Vain or rash swearing by his name is to be abhorred, con. xxii. 2. cat. 113. Yet, in matters of weight and moment, an oath is warrantable under the New Testament, con. xxii. 2. A lawful oath, imposed by lawful authority, ought to be taken, ib. It is a sin to refuse it, con. xxii. 3. A man must swear nothing but what he is fully persuaded is truth; neither may he bind himself by oath to any thing but what he believes to be just and good, and what he is able to perform, ib. An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words; and, in things not sinful, it binds to performance, though to a man's own hurt, or made to hereticks, con. xxii. 4. cat. 113. But it cannot oblige to sin, ib.

Obedience is due to God in whatso

ever he is pleased to command, con. ii. 2. cat: 104. Christ hath performed perfect obedience to the law for us in our nature, com. 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,

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con. xvi. 2. cat. 32. How the sincere though imperfect obedience of believers is accepted and rewarded, con. xvi. 6. Obedience is due to the lawful com

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

Offices of Christ, of Mediator. See Mediator.

His prophetical office,

cat. 43.; priestly, cat. 44.; and kingly, cat. 45.

The Old Testament in Hebrew is that to which the church is finally to appeal in controversies of religion, con. i. 8. The administration of the covenant of grace under the law is called the Old Testament, 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. Those under the gospel, con. vii. 6. cat. 35. Which are fewer, and administered with more simplicity, and less outward glory; yet in them grace and salvation are held forth in more fulness, evidence, and efficacy, ib. 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. xxv. 3. cat. 155, 161, 182. The neglect, contempt, or opposing them, sinful, cat. 109. Original corruption. See Corruption. Original sin. See Sin.

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PAPISTS. Protestants should not marry with Papists, con. xxiv. 3. Pardon. See Sin.

Passions to be restrained, cat. 135, 136.

Passover, one of the types and ordinances by which the covenant of grace was administered 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, ib.

Peace of conscience. See Conscience. Pedo-baptism. See Infants. Perseverance of saints. They whom God hath accepted in Christ can never totally or finally fall away from the estate of grace, con. xvii. 1. cat. 77, 79. Upon what their perseverance depends, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79. How far they may fall, con. vi. 5. xi. 5. xiii. 2. xvii. 3. 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 Persons in the Godhead distinguished by personal properties, con. ii. 3. cat. 9, 10. The equality of the persons proved, cat. 11. The personal union of the two natures in Christ, con. viii. 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. viii. 7. cat. 40. Physick to be used moderately, cat. 135. Lascivious cat. 139. Polygamy unlawful, con. xxiv. 1. cat. 139.

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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 Christ, by the help of the Spirit, con. 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. xxi. 4. cat. 183, 184. Prayer not to be made for the dead, nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death, ib. Prayer, now under the gospel, 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 Catechism from Question 188, to the end.

Preaching of the word is a part of

the ordinary religious worship of God, con. xxi. 5. And one of the ordinances in which the covenant of

grace is administered under the New Testament, con. vii. 6, cat. 35. None are to preach the word but ministers of the gospel, cat. 158, How they are to preach, cat. 159. How the preaching of the word is made effectual to salvation, cat. 155. Predestination, con. iii. 3, 4. cat. 13. The doctrine of predestination how to be handled, and what use to be made of it, con. iii. 8. Preparation required to the hearing

of the word, cat. 160. What preparation requisite to the sabbath, cat. 117. What to the Lord's supper, cat. 171.

Prescience. See Forcknowledge,

Priestly office of Christ, how executed, cat. 44.

Private worship in families daily, a duty, con. xxi. 6. cat. 156. Privileges of the invisible church, and of the visible. See Church. Prodigality, a sin, cat. 142. The Profession of the gospel is adorned by good works,

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xvi. 2. And ought to be attended with a conversation in holiness and righteousness, cat. 112, 167. Property in goods and possessions not infringed by the communion of saints, con. xxvi. 3. Prophecies. The covenant of grace administered by prophecies under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. The prophetical office of Christ, how executed, cat. 43.

Propitiation. Christ's one only sa

crifice the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect, con. xxix. 2. Protestants should not marry with Papists, con. xxiv. 3.

Providence, is God's most holy, wise, and powerful preserving, directing, disposing, and governing all his creatures, and all their actions; according to his infallible foreknowledge, and immutable decree; to the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy, con. v. 1. cat. 18. Events are ordered according to the nature of second causes, con. iii. 1. v. 2. God in his ordinary providence maketh use of means, yet is free to work without, above, and against them at his pleasure, con. v. 3. How providence is exercised about sin, can. v. 4. See Sin. The actual influence of the Holy Spirit is required to do good works, con. xvi. 3. God's providence towards angels, cat. 19. Toward man when created, cat. 20. God's providence is in a most special manner over his church, con, 4. 7. cat. 43, 45, 63.

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Publick worship not to be neglected, con. xxi. 6.

Punishment. See Sin. Purgatory, the scripture acknowledgeth no such place, con. xxxii. 1.

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QUARRELLING at God's decrees and providences sinful, cat. 113. Quarrelling and provoking words sinful, cat. 136. Questions that are curious or unprofitable are to be avoided, cat. 113.

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READING the scriptures a part of religious worship, con. xxi. 5. How made effectual to salvation, cat. 155. It is the duty of all to read them apart by themselves, and with their families, con. i. 8. cat. 156. How the word of God is to be read, con. xxi. 5. cat. 157. Rebellion, a sin, cat. 128. Reconciliation with God purchased by Christ's sacrifice of himself, oon. 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, eon. iii. 6. To whom it is certainly applied, con. viii. 8. cat. 59. Although it was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation; yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits of it were communicated to the elect in all ages successively 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 jus "tified, con. xi. 1. See Justification. And sanctified, con.' xiii. 1. See Sanctification. The corruption of nature remains in them, and all the motions of it are sin, cont. vi. 5.

But it is pardoned and mortified through Christ, ib. The use of the moral law to them, con. xix. 6. cat. 97.

Repentance, what, con. xv. 2. cat, 75. Although it be no satisfaction for sin, nor cause of pardon, yet no pardon without it, con. xv. 3. cat. 153. Nor condemnation where it is, con. xv. 4, 6. It is every man's duty to endeavour to repent particularly of his particular sins, 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. 13. Resurrection of Christ, 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 satisfaction to divine justice, &c. ib. It is an assurance to believers of their resurrection, ib. They have fellowship with him in his resurrection, con. xxvi. 1. He rose again for their justification, con. xi. 4. cat. 52. And through the virtue of his death and resur rection they are sanctified, con. xiii. 1. cat. 75. They draw strength from his death and resurrection for the mortifying of sin, and quickening of grace, cat. 52, 167.

The resurrection of the dead, of the just and unjust, con. xxxii. 2, 3.

cat. 87.

Revelation. The divers ways of

God's revealing his will, con. i. 1. Righteousness. Man was created

righteous after the image of God, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. But by sin he fell from that original righteousness, con. vi. 2. cat. 25. And since the fall no man can attain to righteousness by the moral law, cat. 94. Nor by having righteous

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ness infused into them, can. xi. 1. cat. 70. But those whom God effectually calleth, he accepteth and accounteth as righteous, by imputing the obedience and satis faction of Christ to them, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by faith, ib. See Faith, Imputation, Justification. Why the righteous are not delivered from death, cat. 85. Their state immediately after death, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86. At the resurrection and day of judgment, con. xxxii. 9. xxxiii. 2. cat. 87, 90.

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SABBATH. By the law of nature, a due proportion of time ought to be set apart for the worship of God, con. xxi. 7. God hath in his word, by a positive and perpetual commandment, binding all men in all ages, appointed one day in seven for a sabbath, 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 resurrection of Christ, and the first day ever since, and so to continue to the end of the world, con. xxi. 7. eat. 116. How the sabbath is to be sanctified, con. xxi. 8. cat. 117. How it is profaned, cat. 119. Why we are commanded to remember it, cat. 121. The Lord's day is a memorial of our creation and redemption, which contains a short abridgment of religion, ib. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it, cat. 120. Why the charge of keeping the sabbath is directed to governors of families, and other superiors,

cat. 118.

A Sacrament. The institution, nature, and ends of it, con. xxvii. 1. cat. 162. The parts of a sacrament, con. xxvii. 2. cat. 163.

There are only two sacraments instituted by Christ, coz. xxvii. 4. cat. 164. Which are only to be dispensed by ministers of the word lawfully ordained, con. xxvii. 4. How they are made effectual to salvation, con. xxvii. 3. cat. 161. The sacraments of the Old Testament were the same for substance with those of the New, con. xxvii. 5. Wherein the sacraments of baptism and of the Lord's supper agree, cat. 176. Wherein they differ, cat. 177. Sacrifice. The covenant of grace

was administered under the law by sacrifices, con. vii. 5. viii. 6. cat. 34. Which signified Christ to come, ib. Who hath fully satisfied the justice of his Father, in his once offering himself a sacrifice without spot to God, con. viii. 5. cat. 44. There is no real sacrifice made for sin in the Lord's supper, con. xxix. 2. That sacrament being instituted for the perpetual remembrance of Christ's one only sacrifice 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. 2. cat. 105. Salvation, not to be attained by men who do not profess the Christian religion, be they never so diligent to live up to the light of nature, or the law of that religion which they profess, con. X. 4. cat. 60. There being no salvation but in Christ alone, ib. Who hath purchased it by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, con. viii. 5. cat. 83. For all the elect, and them only, con. iii. 6. To whom the outward means are made effectual for their salvation by the Spirit, can. vii. 5, 6. xxv. 3. cat. 154, 155, 161, 182. Who worketh in their hearts faith in

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