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A91363	A little cabinet richly stored with all sorts of heavenly varieties, and soul-reviving influences. Wherein there is a remedy for every malady, viz. milk for babes, and meat for strong men, and the ready way for both to obtain and retain assurance of salvation: being an abridgement of the sum and substance of the true Christian religion; wherein the cause of our salvation, the way, the guide, the rule, the evidence, the seals, &c. and the connection of these points together, and dependancy of them one upon another: this I have endeavoured to do orderly, exactly, methodically, with much plainness and clearness. / By Robert Purnell.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4237; Thomason E1575_1; ESTC R209217	254,040	517

think it not safe rashly to define where the place of the last judgement shall be Of the Person who it is that shall judge the world THE chief power of judicature shall be in Christ for to him all power is given and from whom no appeal can be made to any superiour This judge shall be visible to all both in respect of brightness and majesty in which he shall appear but so that his sight shall be terrible to the wicked but joyfull to the Godly Acts 17. 31. He hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead and both reprobate and elect shall hear the sentence of the judge to the one it shall be full of horror to the other full of comfort Mat. 25. 34. Come ye blessed vers 41. Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels now where as many texts of Scripture say the Saints shall judge the world that is to be understood that they shall approve of Christs sentence and praise the wisdom and justice of God therein Of the time how long the Judgement shall last VVE read in the Scripture that the time is a day but there are three opinions among Christians about this word day 1. Some take the day here spoken of precisely and properly as if the day of the last judgement should not exceed that space and proportion of time 2. Some conceive that by the day is meant a thousand years because some are said to sit on thrones and have judgement given unto them that is power of Judging and to live and reign with Christ a thousand years Rev. 20. 4. but I conceive that this judgement and reign of a thousand years cannot be understood of the last Judgement because death the last enemy shall in the resurrection be destroyed now after the end of the thousand years mentioned by Saint John Satan shall be loosed out of the prison and the nations deceived by him shall compass the camp of the Saints about and the beloved City and fire shall come down from God out of heaven and devour them all 3. Others seem more safely to apprehend that the day here mentioned is to be taken improperly for time indefinitely it being in Scripture very ordinary to put a day for time in an acceptable time have I heard thee in a day of Salvation have I helped thee Isa 49. 8. If thou hadst known in this thy day Luke 19. 42. Your Father Abraham rejoyced to see my day John 8. 56 c. there must be a day wherein that great work of judgement must begin but the duration thereof is to be measured by the nature of the thing and the counsel of God so I can determine nothing peremptorily concerning the continuance of the last judgement By what or out of what we shall be judged AND the books were opened and the Revel 20. 12. dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works c. by those books are meant partly Gods omniscience and partly mans conscience God to whom all things are naked and open needs no books to help his memory as man doth yet we read that he hath two books the one is called the book of life the other of knowledge of the first there are four kinds the first is of predestination to life eternall and in this book some are so written that they cannot be blotted out others are written but in appearance and hope many hope their names are recorded in heaven but when they fall from this hope then they may be said to be blotted out of this book this is the book of life eternal Secondly there is a book of life temporary which is nothing else but the condition and state of this life out of this book did Moses David and Paul wish themselves to be blotted out The third book of life is the Scripture as containing those precepts and means by which we may obtain life eternal The fourth book of life is our conscience informing us of all the good and bad actions of our life This book is opened sometimes in this life but shall be laid open to us in the last day The other book we read of is of knowledge which is threesold viz. 1. The book of Gods general knowledge whereby he takes notice of all men whether they be good or bad of this every man may say with David Psal 139. 16. in thy book are all my members written c. 2. The book of Gods particular knowledge of this see Psalm 1. the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous and 2 Tim. 2. the Lord knoweth who are his this is the knowledge of approbation in this book they are not written to whom Christ will say at the last day depart from me c. of this David speaketh Psalm 69. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous 3. The third book of knowledge is that wherein the actions of wicked men are recorded and which shall be laid open to them Deut. 7. 10. Judgement was set and the books where opened c. The day of judgement shall be a great Day THIS day shall be a great day first in respect of the judge attended with a great number of Saints and Angels even all his Servants waiting upon him 1 Thes 1. 13. Secondly this day shall be great in respect of the judged as they fall under a four-fold consideration 1. In respect of the greatness of their company and number 2. In respect of the greatness of their ranks and dergees 3. The greatness of their faults and offences 4. In respect of the greatness of their rewards and recompences 1. In respect of the greatness of their number Matthew 25. 32. and 2 Thes 2. 1. We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body 2. The day shall be great in respect of the greatness of their ranks and degrees the high and mighty Emperors as well as the poorest out-casts the tallest Cedar as well as the stoutest heart must bend and break at that day Psalm 110. 5. there will be no other crowns worn at that day but the crowns of righteousness no other robes but those washed in the blood of Christ 3. The day of judgement will be great in respect of their faults and offences the least sin will appear exceeding great the smallest offence unpardoned is against a God infinite the least sin will then be looked upon as that which put God upon complaining Christ upon bleeding and the Spirit upon grieving Oh how will the scarlet crimson transgressions at which natural conscience is affrighted appear at that day those blasphemies murthers open oppressions unnatural uncleanness c. 4. This day shall be

when we die indeed it is but a compleating of what we have been doing all our life the best mens lives are as glass bright and brittle and evermore in danger of breaking Jer. 22. 29. Oh earth earth earth hear the voice of the Lord And why doth he mention earth three times 1. Because we came from the earth 2. Because at the best we are but earth 3. Because we shall speedily return to the earth as appears by these Scriptures Job 7. 9. the length of our dayes is compared to the vanishing of a cloud and sometimes to the swiftness of aPost Job 9. 25. sometimes to a flower that springs in the morning and withereth before night Job 14. 2 Sometimes to a Weavers shuttle Job 7. 6. What is swifter then a shuttle it flies to and again forward and backward so nights and dayes pass this shuttle of our life forward and backward to and fro the night doth cast this shuttle to the day and the day casts it to the night and the night to the day and so from one to the other forward and backward to and again So that between these two time quickly weaves off the thread of our life the piece comes to be woven and so to be cut off and just so is our life Isaiah 38. 12. I have cut off like a Weaver What shall I say more All the Prophets and Apostles that have written have more or less written of the fewness of our dayes and uncertainty of our lives Abraham said he was but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. All our dayes on the earth is as a shadow and there is no abiding 2 Chro. 29. 15. When a few years are come then shall I go the way whence I shall not return Job 16. 22. We spend our dayes like a tale that is told Psal 70. 9. All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field Isa 4. 6 7. We do all fade as a leaf and our iniquities as wind have taken us away Isa 64. 6. For what is our life it is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away such is the swiftness of mans dayes and shortness of his life and frailty of his nature that the swiftest shortest and frailest things that we read of in Scripture are not swift short and frail enough to compare mans life unto Here I cannot but acquaint the Reader with some things that the Lord made of great use to me many years since in reading some part of the practise of Piety and auother book called Sincere the Convert and another little book called Good news from heaven c. together with what I have learned from the Scriptures and Christians c. and so I shall trace man from his birth to his death and begin First with chose that live and die in a state of nature Secondly we shall lay down and that in few lines the blessed state of those that in their life prepare for death for death hath something to say to every man and would fain be heard but men are not at leisure to hearken to him till he throws them upon their sick beds Of the Condition of man in his birth and infancy By the pangs groans and struglings and the violent travell of his mother the child is produced to the light many miscarrying at their birth by divers accidents the mother and the child perish together but sometimes by Gods providence after the child hath been imprisoned nine moneths in an obscure prison it springs into the world and so as it were cast naked upon the earth all embrued into the blood of filthiness so that the mother is ashamed to let the child know the manner thereof Oh miserable man where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery who art condemned as soon as conceived and adjudged to eternal death before thou wast born to a temporal life a beginning indeed we may find but no end of thy misery and so thou art subject in this life to all kind of slavery and in the life to come to overlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels from which there is no escaping unless thou art born again of water and of the spirit John 3. 3 5. Of mankind in the state of childhood THE two first years of it is nothing but impotency and weak imbecility to himself and charge trouble and vexation to his parents other creatures by the benefit of nature can stand upon their Legs and seek after their food but thou must be swadled in clouts and not able to help thy self the yound chickens as soon as they are hatched can run after their dam to seek for food the lambs calves and yound colts stand suddenly upon their legs to seek their dams teats but man would perish if his mother did not bring the nipple of her brest to his mouth and rock him upon her knees and for the three or four years of his infancy he must be carefully tended for fear he should take hurt left horses carts or coaches run over him c. Of mankind in the state of youth THE greatest part of this time is spent under the restraint of their tutors or masters for youth is as an untamed beast all whose affections are rash and rude not capable of good counsel when it is given delighting in nothing but toyes and babies and vanity and therefore must be kept under the rod and fear of parents and masters as if thou hadst been born to live in slavery rather then at the disposition of thy own will no tired horses were ever more willing to be rid of their burdens then thou art to get out of this state of bondage c. never minding thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12. 1. Except the Lord hedge up thy way thou art running with all speed headlong to Hell Of the state of manhood THE maturiry of mans age begins at thirty and continues till forty five in this state the flesh provokes thee to lust the world allures thee to pleasure and the Devil tempts thee to all kind of sins fears of enemies affright thee suits in Law do vex thee wrongs of ill neighbours do oppress thee cares for wife and children do consume thee sin stings thee within Satan layes snares before thee sins past dogs behind thee in this miserable estate whither wilt thou go for rest and comfort the house is full of cares the Field of toyl the Sea of Pirats the Land of Robbers who can reckon up besides all this the losses crosses griefs disgraces sicknesses and calamities that do attend us the death of near and dear friends and relations one while adversity on the left-hand frets thee another while prosperity on the right-hand flatters thee over thy head Gods judgements due to thy sins are ready to fall upon thee and under thy feet hels mouth is ready to swallow thee up therefore take heed Oh man what thou dost