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XX. 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 of Christia- nity, or such as are destructive of the peace and order of the church, ib.
Liberty of conscience, what it is, and what repugnant to it, con. jft. 2. Making men the lords of our faith and conscience unlawful, son. xx. 2. cat. 105.
Life. Eternal life purchased by Christ's perfect obedience to" th- law, con. viii. 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 case of publick justice, lawful war, or necessary defence, cat. 136.
Light of nature, what may be
known of God and of our duty t-.
him by it, con. i. 1. xxi. 1. cat. L".
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unto salvation, eon. i. 1, x. 4. xxL 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. xxl. y. Wanton looks sinful, cat. 139. JLord's prayer. See Prayer. Lord's supper. The institution, na- ture, and ends of it, con. xxix. 1. cat. 168. Christ not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacri- fice for sin made in it, con. xxix. 2. The mass abominably injurious to Christ's one only sacrifice, ib. The outward elements in this sa- crament are not to be adored, con. xxix. 4. They still remain truly bread and wine, con. xxix. 5. The doctrine of transubstantiation is repugnant not only, to the scrip- ture, but even to common sense, and has been and is the cause of gross idolatries, con. xxix. 6. How Christ hath appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the sacrament, con. xxix. 3. cat. 169. It is only to be administer- ed by a minister of the word law- fully ordained, ccn. xxvii. 4. cat. 176. It is not to be received by any one alone, con. xxix. 4. It is to be received in both kinds, ib. What relation the elements in this sacranaent have to Christ crucified, r.on. xxix. 5. How Christ is pre- ient there, con. xxix. 7. cat. 170. How believers feed on him there- in, ib. What preparation is re- quired for receiving it, cat. 171. Boubting may consist with an in- terest in Christ, con. xvii. 8. xviii. 4. cat. 81. And therefore should not hinder from partaking of the Lord's supper, cat. \ 72. But the ignorant and scandalous are not to be admitted, con. xxix. 8. cat. 1 73- What duties required in the time of receiving, cat. 174. What duties after receiving, cat. 175. Frequent attendance on it a duty, cat. J 75, 177. The agreement
and difference between the Lord's supper and baptism, cat. 176, 177.
Lots, cat. 112, 113.
Love. Election is of God*s free love, con. iii. 5. cat. 13. Which is unchangeable, con. xvii. 2. cat. 79. And therefore true be- lievers can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, ih. The sense of God's love is attainable In this life, cat. 83. See Assurance. Love to God is a duty, cat. 104. Which the light of nature shew- eth, con. xxi. 1. To love the Lord our God with all our heart, \5^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. xxi. 3. cat. 185. Love to God and the brethren is necessary to right com- municating, cat. 168, 171, 174. True believers are never utterly destitute of the love of Christ and the brethren, con. xviii. 4. Where- in love towards our neighbour consists, What contrary to it, cat. 136, 142, 145, 148. It is the sum of our duty to man, cat. 122. Lying sinful, cat. 1 45.
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Magistrates appointed by God, con. xXjii. 1. For what end, ib. Lawful for Christians to accept the office of a magistrate, con. xxiij. 2. The duty of the civil magistrate, con. xxiii. 2, cat. 129. con. XX. 4. Head the scriptures let- ter ^ The sins of the magistrate, cat. ISO, 145. He may wage war upon just and necessary oc- casions, con. xxiii. 2. His power in church- affairs stated, con. xxiiL 3. The duty of the people towards their magistrates, con, xxiii. 4. cat. 127. Their sins against them, cat. 128. Ecclesiastical persons not exempted from obedience to the
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the civil magistrate, con, xxiii. 4. The Pope hath no power or juris- diction over magistrates or their people, ib. The magistrate is not to be opposed in the lawful ex- ercise of his power, upon pretence of Christian liberty, c*n. xx. 4. InBdelity or difference in religion doth not make void the magi- strate's just and legal authority, con. xxiii. 4.
Man, how created, con. iv, 2. cat. 17. His state before the fall, con, iv. 2. cat, 17, 20. His fall, and the effects of it, con. vi. cat. 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. His state by the covenant of grace, con. vii. 3, — 6. cat. 30, — 35. Man's chief end, cat. I.
Man-stealing discharged, cat. 1 42.
M riage, the end of it, con. xxiv. 2. cat. 20. Between more than one man and one woman at a time unlawful, con. xxiv. 1. cat. ISO- Lawful for all sorts of people who are capable to give their consent, com. xxiv. .^. And who are without the degrees of con- sanguinity or affinity forbidden in the scriptures, con. xxiv. 4. But marriages within those dt-grees can never be made lawful, ib. Protestants should not marry with infidels. Papists, or other idolaters, con. xxiv. 3. Nor such as arc godly with those that are notoriously wicked, ib. A con- tract of marriage may be dis- solved for adultery or fornication committed after the contract, con. xxiv. 5. The bond of marriage can only be dissolved for a \ iltery .ifter marriage, and such wilful desertion as cannot be remedied, toa. xxiv. 5, G. Undue delay of marriage, prohibitmg of law- ful, and dispensing with unlaw- ful marriages, are sinful, cat. 139. Vows of perpetual single life are sinful snares In which no Christian may entangle liimself,
con. xxli. 7. eat. 1 39. Those wht have not the gift of continency ought to marry, cat. 138. The duties of married persons, cat, 139, 141.
The mass abominably injurious to Christ's one only sacrifice, eon. xxix. 2.
Means. God in his ordinary prt>- vidence maketh use of means; yet is free to work without, above, and against them at his pleasure, con. v. 3. The outward and ordinary means of salvation under the law, con. vii. 5. cat. 34. Under the gospel, con. vii. 6. cat* 35, JS4. The diligent use of them is required in order to escape the wrath of God, cat. 153. How they are made effectual, con.
