threats against them.

94 Undutiful children cursed.

95 Duties of masters towards servants.

96 Duties of servants.

97 Duties of the civil magistrate, to ad-

minister justice impartially.

98 Qualifications of the magistrate.

99 The magistrate's concern with religion.

descension in their office.

125 They seek not applause from men; they

flatter not, &c.

126 They seek not riches; neither are co-

vetous.

127 Their duty and encouragement to speak

boldly the truths of religion without

fear.

to God's people.

101 Magistracy is of divine appointment.

proving sinners, and declaring the

truth.

ment, respect of persons, &c.

ousness, taking gifts, &c.

religion.

104 Through drunkenness.

105 The misery of being governed by weak

or wicked rulers.

131 They pray for the people.

132 The supports of Christians in general,

and of the Lord's ministers in par-

ticular, under sufferings for religion.

punishment for sin.

107 Wicked rulers enemies to religion.

108 God's providence over kings and rulers.

109 Particular instances of God's providence

exalting or abasing rulers.

110 Duties toward governors. Praying for

them.

111 Honour and respect to be shown to

magistrates.

112 Obedience to magistrates.

ment

134 Their covetousness.

135 Their intemperance.

136 Their slothfulness.

137 Of false prophets and false teachers.-

They deceive the people.

138 Duties toward the ministry. To receive

their instructions.

139 To esteem and love them.

140 To pray for them.

and punishment thereof.

114 Disobedience to magistrates a duty, when

God's law.

115 Ministers of Christ, their duties. The

commission given to the apostles.

116 Power committed to them.

117 Excommunication.

118 None may intrude into the ministerial

office.

119 Teaching truth the duty of ministers.

120 The good effects of preaching.

121 A good ministry promised.

Sixth Commandment.

144 Of murder.

145 Cases wherein killing of a man was not

to be punished with death.

146 Threatenings against murderers.

147 Instances of their punishment.

148 Striking, wounding, maiming; how to

be punished.

Sect.

185 Backbiting.

use of riches.

53 Threatenings against theft.

154 Robbery forbidden; with threats.

187 Reproach: prayers and complaints

against it.

188 God will bring it upon the wicked.

bidden.

thereof.

190 Reviling practised by the wicked, and

endured by the godly.

191 Railing.

neighbour; the law thereof.

193 Unprofitable disputes about religion.

the oppressed.

159 Restitution to the injured to be made.

160 Oppressors threatened.

161 Prayers for the oppressed.

162 Promises to the oppressed.

163 Duties of the rich toward the poor.-Hos-

pitality.

164 Lending without usury.

165 Giving alms.

166 Alms to be done in secret.

righteous.

195 Practised by the wicked.

196 The righteous; their care of their

words.

197 They praise God with their mouths.

198 The words of the righteous toward

men.

Tenth Commandment.

mination.

168 To poor Christians especially.

169 Promises to the poor.

170 Of being uncharitable to the poor.

171 The stranger, widow, and fatherless:

duties toward them, and threatenings

against those that oppress them.

172 Promises to the stranger, fatherless, and

widow.

Ninth Commandment.

200 Threats against the covetous.-Instances

of their punishment.

201 An insatiable desire of riches.

202 Threats against unjust acquiring of

riches.

203 Riches are not a lasting possession.

204 They cannot be carried hence to the

other world.

205 Possessing riches but not using them;

the vanity thereof.

206 Riches are attended with care and

trouble.

of God.

Sect.

Righteous and the Wicked.

1 Of a future judgment and its conse

quences.

2 God is judge.

14 Eternal life is from God.

15 Life promised to sundry graces and duties.

16 To righteousness.

17 To the spiritually minded.

18 To seeking God.

judged.

4 When the day of judgment shall be.

5 Uses to be made of the doctrine of future

judgment, for encouraging steadfastness and perseverance, &c.

20 To the fear of God.

21 To loving God.

22 To mortification, dying unto sin. 23 To suffering for Christ's sake. 24 To perseverance.

inconceivably great.

8 Christians are heirs; they have an inheritance, a kingdom, &c.

9 The righteous have rest.

10 They enjoy mansions, a new heaven, a heavenly temple, light, &c.

11 They are present with Christ.

28 Future punishments.-Sinners that shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 29 The greatest suffering in this life set forth in language expressive of future punishments.

30 The punishment of the wicked in a future state.

1. THA HAT there is a God, asserted, and proved by his works. Exod. iii. 14. God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. Ps. ix. 16. The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth.

xix. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handy work. Ver. 2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. Job xii. 7, 8, 9.

lviii. 11. Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

c. 3. The Lord he is God, he made us.

2 Sam. vii. 22. VI. None besides him. Neither is there any God besides thee. xxii. 32. Who is God save the Lord? 2 Kings v. 15.

Isa. xliv. 6. 8. I know not any.

Besides me there is no God;
Ch. xlv. 5. 14. 21.

Hos. xiii. 4. Thou shalt know no God but me. Exod. xx. 3.

VII. None with him.

Deut. xxxii. 39. I

Matt. xxiii. 9.

IX. None like him. Exod. viii. 10. There is none like unto the Lord our God.

xv. 11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Ps. xxxv. 10. Mic. vii. 18.

1 Kings viii. 23. Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart. Exod. ix. 14. Deut. xxxiii. 2 Sam. vii. 22. 1 Chron. xvii. 20. Ps. 26. lxxxvi. 8. Isa. xlvi. 9. Jer. x. 6, 7. 16.

X. None to be compared unto him.

Ps.

pared unto the Lord?

XI. No likeness of God among the creatures. Isa. xl. 18. What likeness will ye compare to him? Ch. xlvi. 5. Deut. iv. 12.

Acts xvii. 29. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Dan. iv. 34. XII. He is the living God. That liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.

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