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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

Creator the Gospel commandeth us to worship him in Christ as our Saviour the Law like Pharaoh requires brick but allows no straw the Gospel both allows strength and supplies Rom. 10. 5 6 8. But yet as the Law saveth us not without the Gospel so the Gospel saveth us not without the Law which directeth us in our duty both to God and man Deut. 5. 32. At the giving of the Law the mountain burned the trumpet sounded the people fled and Moses trembled and all this to teach us that we should be very careful to perform obedience to the same Object What was the Ceremonial Law Answ It was that which did prescribe orders for direction in rites of outward worship only shadowing the grace of the Gospel Heb. 10. 1. But the substance of this Law being come those shadows are utterly abolished by the death of Christ and therefore the use of them now would be a kind of denyal of his death Quest What was the Judicial Law Answ That wherein God appointed a form of civil government of the Common-wealth Now this Law is not utterly revoked and abolished by Christ for he came not to over-turn any good government Quest What is the Moral Law Answ That which commandeth perfection of godliness and righteousness and directeth us in our duties both to God and man Deut. 5. 32 12. 32. Quest Are not we delivered from this Law by the means of Christ Answ From the burden of the Law exacting in our own persons perfect obedience and from the curse of the Law due unto disobedience we are delivered by Christ Gal. 3. 10 11 12 13. but from the commandment as a rule of life we are not freed Jam. 2. 8. For the Law doth lay a charge upon all the powers of the soul viz. First it doth charge the understanding to know every duty even all the will of God it chargeth the judgement to discern between good and evil it chargeth the memory to retain it it chargeth the will to chuse the better and to leave the worse it chargeth the affections to love those things that are lovely and to hate things that are uncomely Of the ten Commandments THe ten Commandments are divided into two tables Deut. 4. 13. and 10. 1 4. Which Chirst called the two great Commandments Mat. 22. The four first do contain our duty to God and the six latter our duty to man The first commandment is Thou shalt have no other Gods before me This commandment directs us to the choice of the true God and the entertaining him in all our thoughts in which there are nine things enjoyned and three things prohibited or forbidden 1. Knowledge Joh. 17. 3. 2. Remembrance Eccles 12. 1. 3. Love Deut. 6. 5. 4. Trust Prov. 3. 5. 5. Hope Psal 146. 5. 6. Fear Isa 51. 12 13. 7. Humility Mich. 6. 8. 8. Patience Lam. 3. 39. 9. Obedience 1 John 5. 3. Things prohibited or forbidden in this first commandment 1. Atheism Heb. 11. 6. 2. Heresie Tit. 3. 10 11. 3. Apostacy Heb. 10. 26. The second Commandment Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them Exod. 20. 4 5. This second commandment layes before us the solemn worship that is to be performed unto God without images and ceremonies This second commandment doth prohibit seven things and enjoyn six things four ordinary two extraordinary The things prohibited or forbidden are these seven 1. Idolatry Psal 97. 7. 2. Will-worship Col. 2. 23. 3. Superstition Act. 17. 22 4. Traditions Col. 2. 8. 5. Schism 1 Cor. 11. 18. 6. Witch-craft Exod. 22. 18. 7. Confusion 1 Cor. 11. 21. Things commanded and enjoyned in this second commandment are first ordinary secondly extraordinary First ordinary Extraordinary 1. Prayer 1 Thes 5. 17. 2. Preaching Mal. 2. 7. 3. Seals or Sacraments 4. Discipline Mat. 18. 17. 5. Fasting Lev. 23. 19. 6. Feasting and thanksgiving Ester 9. 22. The third Commandment is this Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain Exodus 20. 7. This third commandment doth inform us how we should glorifie God aright in the actions of our common life without swearing or blaspheming This third commandment doth prohibit four things and enjoyn five things The things forbidden or prohibited are 1. Oaths Jer. 4. 2. 2. Vows Numb 30. 2 3. Lots Prov. 16. 33. 4. All unreverent and unholy use of his name and prophaning of his titles properties actions and Ordinances either by mouth or action Lev. 21. 32. Mal. 1. 6 12. Things commanded or enjoyned in the third commandment in the sanctifying of God 1. His names Deut 28. 15. 2. Attributes 1 Pet. 3. 15. 3. Word Psal 50. 16 17. 4. Works Psal 58. 10 11. 5. Religion Ephes 4. 1. The fourth Commandment is this Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. This fourth commandment doth inform us of a certain day set apart for Gods service as the Sabbath or Lords day This fourth commandment doth prohibit certain things and enjoyn many other things Things prohibited 1. The making of it a common day Neh. 13. 15 2. Vain speech about wordly things Isa 581. 3. 3. Idleness feasting pastimes Exod. 32. 6. 4. The doing that on the Lords day which is no day lawful Mar. 3. 4. Ezek. 23. 37 38. 5. The imploying others in worldly business Things commanded or enjoyned to be done on that day 1. Hearing and reading the word Luk. 4. 16 22. Act. 13. 14 15. 2. Prayer and singing of Psalms 3. Visiting and relieving the sick 4. Examining our selves and those that belong to us 5. Catechising our families The fifth Commandment runs thus Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be l●ng in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Exod. 20. 12. This commandment layes before us the duties we owe one to another in regard of our particular relation unto such as are our superiors inferiors and equals In a word the fifth commandment presents us with the duty of 1. Magistrates 1 Tim. 2. 2. 2. Ministers 1 Pet. 5. 2. 3. Parents Eph●s 6. 4. 4. Masters Col. 4. 1. 5. Husbands Ephes 5. 25. 6. Noble and rich 1 Tim. 6. 17. 7. Aged Tit. 2. 2 4. 8. Subjects Rom. 13. 1. 9. People Heb. 13 17. 10. Children Ephes 6. 1. 11. Servants 1 Pet. 2. 18. 12. Wife Ephes 5. 24 33. 13. Poor 1 Sam. 25. 8. 14. Young Lev. 19. 32. The sixth Commandment runs thus Thou shalt not murder Exod 20. 13. This commandment layes before us our duty in the preservation of mens persons and living in peace and meekness In this commandment there are five things forbidden and four things enjoyned The things forbidden are these and such like 1. Unjust anger

7. Of the Springs of Assurance 8. Of the impediments of assurance 9. Of the evil of doubting or want of Assurance 10. Many think they have Assurance and have it not 11. Many reasons wherefore the Lord doth not give Assurance speedily 12. Very hard to recover assurance if once lost Of the nature of Assurance what it is ASSurance is a certain sweet motion of the soul steadily resting upon the mercy of God through the merits of Christ with an unshaken expectation of all that is promised this assurance in Scripture hath several denominations which I shall speak to under the next head Or assurance is a victorious conclusion against the strength of doubting whereby the mind of a believer is certained and perswaded and upon good grounds setled concerning his personal interest in Christ and all his benefits Assurance conquers our doubtings answers our arguments clears our evidences unto the soul against the many suspitions which did arise that Christ doth indeed own it that he is the Saviour thereof c. This assurance is called sometimes full assurance of understanding Col. 2. 2. Sometimes called full assurance of hope Heb. 6. 11 12 19. Sometimes full assurance of Faith Heb. 10. 22 So that faith and hope do contribute their influence to the making up of full assurance sometimes this is called boldness Heb. 4. 16. Importing an undanted yet humble and dutifull looking God in the face sometimes full assurance when faith acts strongly without staggering through unbelief Whether Assurance be attainable in this life 1 John 5. 13. THese things have I written unto you that ye way know that ye have eternal life Heb. 6. 18. God hath given us his Oath his word his seal that our consolation may be strong and that our salvation may be sure 2 Cor. 5. 1 2. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens Solomons Song 2. 16. My beloved is mine and I am his I am his by purchase and I am his by conquest I am his by donation and I am his by election and I am his by Covenant and I am his by marriage Isa 63. 16. doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O Lord art our Father and our redeemer Rom. 8. 38. Paul saith that nothing could separate him from the love os Christ 2 Pet. 1. 10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure therefore we see it is attainable and our duty to make it sure c. Of the several sorts of Assurance THere are degrees of assurance some more weak some more strong there is an assurance and a full assurance God in his word doth exhort Christians to strive after assurance yea full assurance yea the riches of full assurance and no doubt that not only Paul but many a good Christian can say sometime or other I am verily perswaded that Christ loved me and gave himself for me Assurance hath many denominations in the Scriptures according to its degrees sometimes it is called a perswasion Rom. 8. 38. Sometimes boldness Eph. 3. 12. In whom we have boldness which doth import an undanted yet humble and dutiful looking God in the face Sometimes it is called full assurance Rom. 4. 2. That is when faith doth act strongly without staggering through unbelief This is called sometimes full assurance of understanding Col. 2. 2. Sometimes full assurance of hope Heb. 6. 11 18 19. And sometimes full assurance of Faith Heb. 10. 22. For Knowledge Faith and Hope do all contribute their influence to the making up of full assurance many Christians have some degree of assurance who think they have not and many have no assurance at all who yet pretend thereto most of all Of the trials of assurance AS Surance may be brought to the test and tried by 1. The qualification of the Subject assured 2. Or by the grounds or cases of assurance 3. Or by the fruits and effects of it we are not to let the reall interest of Christ to hang hovering and in dispute but to determine them by particular and personal evidence 1. True assurance doth support and comfort the heart in deepest tribulation as we may see in Job and Paul 2. True assurance doth make a man of a Godlike disposition easie to be intreated ready to forgive abundant in goodness it makes a man study the good of others wherein he may strengthen the feeble and comfort the dejected and inrich the impoverished and recover the seduced and inlarge the streightned and build up the wasted 3. True assurance puts the soul a work upon self-purifying 1 John 3. 2 3. 4. True assurance doth make the soul incomparably to prize communion with God and Jesus Christ Can 2. 6 7 16 17. Compared with Cant. 3. 1. to the 6. 5. True assurance doth engage those that have it to serve and honour God Josh 1. 15. God assured Joshua that he would neverleave him nor forsake him Joshua upon this resolves that he and his house would serve the Lord c. To make out after and endeavour for assurance is our duty WE are bound to draw near unto God in the full assurance of Faith Heb. 10. 22. 2 Pet. 1. 10. Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure but so foolish are we that whilst with much care and labour we go about to make those things certain which are most uncertain we make those things uncertain which might be made certain 2 Cor. 13. 5. Examine you selves whether ye be in the faith prove your selves c. Consider farther that although the enjoyment of assurance makes most for our consolation yet the living upon Christ purely in the want of assurance makes most for his exaltation he is happy with Thomas that believeth upon seeing and handling but thrice happy are those that believe when they do nor see John 20. 29. Faith can make a soul submit in a cross but it is assurance which makes the soul to rejoyce and triumph Of the benefits of assurance and many arguments to persw●de us to make out after it 1. THE want of it doth hinder thankfulness 2. Assurance will settle a soul upon Christ 3. Assurance will sweeten all other blessings to us 4. Assurance will put us upon all kind of duty 5. Assurance will ease a man of the world and mount the soul above it 1. The want of it doth hinder thankfulness We cannot give God hearty thanks whilst we are doubtfull of our particular interest in Christ this man cannot thank the Lord from his own Soul for giving his Son Jesus Christ seeing he doth doubt of his interest in him he cannot thank God for pardon of sin seeing he doth doubt whether they be pardoned or no see Psal 103. 1 2 3. 2. Assurance will settle a soul upon Christ and cause him to lie down and sleep in