Order of the Jewish, 79. Apostolic model of, to be followed,
79, 85. Order of primitive, 80-84.

Circumcision, answerable to baptism, 8.

Commandment, what first forbids, 127. How Christians break
it, 130. What it requires, 128. What second forbids, 131.
What it requires, 133. How enforced, 134. What third
forbids, 137. What it requires, 140. How enforced, 141.
What fourth requires, 144. What fifth requires, 149. Pro-
mise annexed to it, 153. What sixth forbids, 151. What
it requires, 157. What seventh forbids, 160.
What it re-
quires, 161.

What eighth forbids, 162, 165.

What it re-

quires, 164. What ninth forbids, 167. What tenth forbids,
171, 174.

Communion, of saints, 91. With God through the Bible, 93.
Uses of this article, 95, 96.

Contentment, enforced, 172, 174, 195.

Covetousness, instances of, 172.

Creation, account of, 37.

Deacon, office of, 82.

D

Dead raised, instances of, 107.

Death, the wages of sin, 98. What it is, 103.

Compared to

sleep, 103. Change on the body by, 103. Everlasting,

what it is, 201.

Devil, his names, 23. His works, 24. Prayer to be delivered
from his power, 201.

Doxology, 203.

E

Evil speaking, 167, 168.

F

Faith, nature of, 16, 20.

Illustrations of, 17. Examples of, 17.
Why necessary for all, 18. How to be obtained, 19. Signs
of true, 19. How evidenced, 213.

Fall of man, proved from Scripture, 4, 40.
Forgiveness of sin, through Christ, 98, 101.

Assurance of it,
100. Cannot be merited, 201. Why to be daily asked, 198.
Forgiving temper required, 198.

Glory, degrees of, 108.

G

God, children of, 12. His will, where summed up, 27. What
it is, 190. How made known, 191, How to be done, 192.
Obedience to it required, 27. Who he is, 31. Knowledge

of him necessary, 32, 127. His attributes, 30, 38, 125. Cre-
ated all things, 37. Illustration of his mercy, 15. Displays
of his power against his enemies, 33. In behalf of his peo-
ple, 34. What meant by his name, 137, 187. Reverence
of his word required, 140. In what sense Our Father, 183.
His help how to be obtained, 202.

Grace, meaning of special, 176. Given in answer to prayer,
28. Kingdom of, 189.

H

Heathen, gods of, 126.
Heaven, inheritors of, 12.
Hell, descent of Christ into, 47.
Holiness, how kept alive, 93.

Holy Ghost, meaning of, 66.

Why called a Person, 66. Proofs
of his divinity, 66-69. Names of, 68. Necessary to men,
68. Promised, 70. Work of, 70-72, 74. Witness of, 71,
76. Blasphemy against, 72, 73.

I

Idolatry, forbidden, 131. God's abhorrence of, shown, 135.
Covetousness, why called, 171.

J

Jesus, meaning of the name, 39. How he redeemed us, 40,
112. Took our nature, 40, 93. His life, sufferings, and
death, 43, 44. Proofs of his death, 45. Why he suffered,
46, 99. His burial, 46. His descent into hell, 47. Will be
our judge, 62. His second coming described, 63. Types
of, 98.
Judgment, certainty of, 59. Intimated in Old Testament, 60.
Foretold in the New, 61.

K

Kingdom, God's, of grace and glory, 188. Its coming pro-
mised, 189.

L

Law of God, obligation of the Jews to keep it, 117. Equally
binding on us, 119. Circumstances under which given, 120.
What it requires of us, 121. Extent of its requirements,
123. None can be saved by it, 123. Its uses, 123. All
have broken it, 174.

Liturgy, excellencies of, 86.

Lord's Day, the Christian Sabbath, 145, 146.
Lord's Prayer, why called so, 183.
Lord's Supper, why called so, 209.

Who

Why ordained, 208.
What outward sign, 210. What inward part, 210. Bene-
fits we receive, 210. How soul refreshed by, 211.
partake unworthily, 211. What required of those who come
to, 212. Dispositions requisite for, 212.

Love to God, tried by his law, 124. Required, 121, 128. Ne-
cessary for communicants, 212. Sign of faith, 212.
Lusts of the flesh, defined, 25. To be mortified, 25.

M

Man, involved in the fall of Adam, 3, 40.
4. Always described as a sinner, 4, 99.
ment here, and hereafter, 5.
inability to love God, 122.

Fallen state proved,

Exposed to punish-
Natural state of, 40. Natural

Ministers, not to be self-appointed, 84. Our duty to them, 151.

Misery, degrees of, 109.

Murder, in what it consists, 155. Cases of exemption, 156.

N

Name of God, 137, 186. How to be hallowed, 187.

Р

Parents, (see Children.)

Pomps and Vanity, defined, 25. To be renounced, 25.
Prayer, on forms of, 85. Promises of being heard, 134, 181, 199.
Reverence in, commanded, 139. What it is, 177. Heart to
be engaged in, 178. Divine help in, necessary, 179. What
disposition of mind necessary to, 179. Different kinds of,
180. Persons eminent for, 180. Frequency in, enforced,
181. Times for private, 195.

To be accompanied by exertion, 195. Why called Lord's
Prayer, 183, Division of, 183.
Presbyters, office of, 80.

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Repent, promises to those who, 15.

Means by which pro-

Repentance, nature of, 13. Examples of, 13. Why neces-
sary for all, 14. The gift of God, 14.
duced, 16. How evidenced, 213.
Resurrection, Proofs of, 105.
by virtue of Christ, 107.
Righteous, portion of, 64, 108.

Will be general, 107. Effected
Instances of, 107.

equally glorified, 108.

S

Sabbath Day, meaning of, 143. What meant by hallowing it,
143. How to be kept holy, 145.
Sacraments, defined, 9, 204.

Saints, who are, 91.

How distinguished, 91.

When set apart,

92. Pattern, 92. Who makes them holy, 93.

With whom
they hold communion, 93. Partakers of divine nature, 94.
Salvation, in what it consists, 28. Through Jesus Christ, 29,
99. Who invited to it, 28.

Saviour, types of, 98. (See Jesus and Christ.)
Servants, duty to masters, 153.

Sin, original, 13.

What it is, 97, 101. Its wages, 98. God
only can pardon, 98. Assurance of forgiveness of, 100. Pro-
ceeds from the heart, 174. Prayer to be kept from, 201.
Sinners, all men such, 99, 175.

Sincerity, evidence of, 191.

Soul, state of, after death, 104. Injury to, forbidden, 157. Re-
freshed by Lord's Supper, 210.

Spirit, (see Holy Ghost.)

Swearing, wherein its sinfulness, 142,

T

Temptation, meaning of, 200. Why God permits, 201. When
said to be led into, 200.

Trinity, proofs of, 114. Relation of each person to us, 115.

Unbelief, consequence of, 19.

U

Vanity, of the world, to be renounced, 25.

W

Wicked, punishment of, 65, 109. Degrees of misery among,

110.