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The confession of faith

Chapter 384

XXV. 1. xxvi. I. cat. 64, 66. He

is the only head • of the churah, 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, co«. iv. 2. cat. 17. But by the fall he be- came wholly defiled, con. vi. 2. Believers are, by the sanctifying Spirit of Christy quickened and strengthened to the practice of holi- ness, con xiii. l^S.cat 75 And are made perfectly holy in heaven, con. xxxii. 1 . cat. 86, 90. S«e Sanctification. The
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Tke Holy Ghost equal with the Fa- ther, con. ii. 3. cmt. 11. He is promised to the elect in the cove- nant of grace, con, vii. 3. cat. 32. By him they are united to Christ, con. xxvi. 1 . For by him the re- demption purchased by Christ is applied to them, con. viii. 8. xi. 4. tat. 58, 59. By him they are effectually called, con, x. ]. cat. 67. And have faith wrought in their hearts, con. xiv. 1. cat. 59, 72. He is given to them in adop- tion, con. xii, cat. 74. And apply- ing the death and resurrection of ., Christ to them, by his powerful ' operation, they are sanctified, con, xiii. 1. cat. 15' Having repent- ance wrought, and all other sav- ing graces infused into their hearts, con. xiii. 1. cat. 32, 75, 76, 77. Through the continual supply of strength from him, believers gjow to grace, con. xiiL 3. cat. 75. The outward means are by him made effectual to the elect for salvation, con. vii. 5, 6. XXV. 3. cat. 155, 161. Prayer is to be made by his help, con. xxi. 3. cat. 182. Ability to do good works is from him, con. xvi. 3. Assurance of faith is at- tained by his witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God, con. xvIiL 2, cat. 80. By his abiding within believers, they are secured from falling totally away from the state of grace, and are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ccn. xvii. 2. cat. 79. Hope of glory, con. xviii. 1. cat. 83. The h«pe of hypocrites, con. xviii.
Humiliation of Christ, con. viii. 2, 4.
cat. 46. In his conception and
birth, cat. 47. In his Ufe, cat. 48.
In his death, cat. 49. After death,
cat. 50. Hypocrisy. Making profession of
religioH in hypocrisy, or for sini-
ster ends, sinful, eat. 113. The hypocrite's hope, con. xviii. 1. Hypostatical. See Persona!.
I Idleness unlawful, cat. 139, 142. Idolatry, all the kinds of it forbid- den, cat. 105, 109. All monu- ments of idolatry ought to be re- moved, cat. 108.
Jtsts. Perverting the scripture tp profane jests, sinful, cat. 113.
Jesus, why so called, cat. 41. See Chrht.
Ignorant, not to be admitted to the Lord's table, con. xxix. 8. cat. 173.
Image. Man made after the image of God, in knowledge, righteous- ness, and holiness, con. iv. 2. cat. 17. This image is renewed by sanctifi cation, cut. 15. And fully perfected in heaven, con. xxxii. 1. cat. 86, 90.
Image- worship of all kinds dischar- ged, cat. 109.
Imputation. The guilt of Adam's first sill is imputed to all his po- sterity, con. vi. 3. The obedience and .satisfaction of Christ is impu- ted to believers, con. xi. 1. cat. 70. His righteousness is imputed to them, cat. 71, 77.
Incarnation of Christ, con. viii. 2. cat, 37, 39.
Incest discharged, cat. 139. luces- tuous marriages, which are within the degrees of consanguinity or affniity forbidden in the scriptures, can never be made lawful, con. xxiv, 4.
Unjust luclosures and depopulations forbidden, cat. 142.
Increase of grace is from a continual supply of strength from the sanc- tifying Spirit of Christ, con, xiii. 1,3. cat. 75,77.
Inuocency. The state of man in In- nocency, con. iv. 2. cat. 17, 20.
Infants, how saved, con. x. 3. In- fants of one or both believing C c 5 parepti
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parents are to be baptized, con. xxviii. 4. caL 166. Ingrossing commodities to enhance
their price unlawful, cat. 142. Inspiration. The books of the Old and New Testament are given by inspiration of God, con. i. 2. But the Apocrypha is not of divine in- spiration, cofu i. 3. Intercession. How Christ makes in- tercession, cat. 55, It is a part of his priestly office, cat. 44. He makes intercession, that the re- demption which he hath purchas- ed may be applied to all believers, con. viii. 8. cat. 55. And their perseverance depends upon his continual intercession for them, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79. Joy in the Holy Ghost the fruit of assurance, con. xviii. 1, 2. cat. 83. Believers, by falling into some sins, may grieve the Spirit, and be de- prived of some measure of their comfort, con. xvii. 3. xviii. 4. Judge. Christ the judge of the world, con. viii. 1, 4. xxxiii. I. How he shall come at the last day, rat. 56. The judgments of God upon sinners in this world, con. v. 6- cat. 28, 83. How believers may bring temporal judgments on themselves, con. xvii. 5. God is just and ter- rible in his judgments, con. ii. 1. The last judgment, what, con. xxxiii. 1 . Appointed for angels and men, con. viii. 4. xxxiii. 1. cat. 88. The end of its appointment is the mani- festation of God's mercy and jus- tice, con. xxxiii. g. Christ shall be the judge, con. viii. 4. xxxiii. 1. How he shall come to judge the world, cat. 56. Why he would have us certainly persuaded of it, con. xxxiii. 3. Why the time of it is concealed, con. xxxiii. 3. cat. 88. 'i'he judgment of the righteous, con. xxxiii. 2. cat. 90. The judg- ment of the wicked, con. xxxiii. 2. (at. 89.
Judicial law. See Law.
The justice of God fully satisfied by Christ's obedience and death, con. viii. 5. xi. 3. oat. 38, 71. It is manifested in the works of provi- dence, con. v. 1. In the justifica- tion of sinners, con. xi. 3. In the last judgment, con. xxxiii. 2.
Justice in contracts and commerce between man and man, cat. 141, 142.
Justification, what^ con. xi. 1. cat. 70. All the elect, and they only» are justified, con. iii. 6. Whom God did from all eternity decree to justify, con. xi. 4. But they are not justified till the Holy Spirit doth in due time actually apply Christ unto them, ib. How justi- fication is of God's free grace, con. xi. 3. cat. 71. Faith is necessarily required for justification, cat. 71- But it justifies a sinner only as it is an instrument, by which he re- ceiveth Christ and his righteous- ness, con. xi. 1, 2. cat. 73. The exact justice, and rich grace of God, are both glorified in the justification of sinners, con. xi. 3. Justification the same under the Old Testament as under the New, con. xi. 6. It is inseparably joined with sanctification, cat. 77. How they differ, ib. Those that are justified are perfectly freed in this life from the revenging wrath of God, that they never fall into con- demnation, con. xvii. 1. cat. 77, 79^ But corruption remaining in them, con. vi. 5. xiii. 2. cat. 78. They fall into many sins, con. xvii. 3. cat. 78. Which God continues to for- give," upon their humbling them, selves, confessing their sins, beg- ging pardon, and renewing their faith and repentance, con. xi. 5.
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Keys. The power of the keys,
what, con. XXX. 2. Committed
to church-officers, ib. The civil
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' magistrate may not assume this power, ccn. xxiii. 3.
King. Christ the King of his church, con. XXX. 1. How he execnteth the oflke of a king, cat. 45. What n;eant by the coming of his king- dom, cat. 191.
Knowledgf. God's knowledge is in- finite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, an. ii. 2. The knowledge which may be had of God and of our duty to him by the light of nature, con. i. 1. xxL 1. cat. I. The scriptures are only sufficient to give that knowledge Aji God and of his will which is necessary unto salvation, ib.
Imbour is to be moderately used, cat. 13-;, 136.
Land-marks not to be removed, cat. 142.
l>aw. The Ceremonial Law, what, con. XIX. S. It is abrogated now under the New Testament, con. xix. 3. XX. 1. How the covenant of grace was administered undt-r the law, con. vii. 5. viii. 6. cat. 34.
The Judicial Law expired with the state of the Jews, con. xix. 4. And obliges no further than the general equity of it requires, ib.
.The Moral Law, what, cat. 93. Given to Adam with a power to fulfil it, con. iv. 2. xix. 1. cat, 92. The ten commandments the sum of it, con. xix. 2. cat. 98. Though believers are not under it as a co- venantf con. xix. 6. And are not able perfectly to keep it, cat. H9. Yet it contiriues to be a perfect rule of righteousness, con. xix. 2. Binding all, as well justified per- sons as others, con. xix. 5. Christ, in the gospel, having not abohsh- ed, but much strengthened the obligation to the obedience of it, ib. And although no man since ihe fall can, by the moral law, at-
tain to righteousness and life, con. xix. 6. cat. 94. Which Christ alone hath purchased for the elect by his perfect obedience, con. viii. 5. Yet it is of great use to nil, con. xix. 6. cat. 95. The use of it to the regenerate, con. xix. 6. cat. 97. The use of it to the unre- generate, cat. 9G. Not contrary to the grace of the gospel, but doth sweetly comply with it, can. xix. 7. The Spirit of Christ sub- duing and enabling the will of man unto a free and cheerful obedience to the will of God, con. xix. 7. cat. 32.
Unnecessary Law-suits to be avoided, cat. 141, 142.
Liberty. Christian liberty, what, con. XX. 1. Wherein it is enlar- ged under the gospel, ib. The end of Christian hberty, con. xx- 3. Liberty to sin inconsiitent with it, ib. It is not intended to de&tro} ecclesiastical or civil powers, but to support and preserve them, con.