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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

rely upon his providence for all the means of this temporal life and to rest contented with that allowance which he shall think fit for us Psal 4. 11 12. Yea in this petition we beg health wealth food sleep rayment house c together with all the helps and means to attain them and that he would give us care and conscience to get those needfull things by lawfull means that labouring with our hands the thing that is good we may eat our bread Eph. 4. 28. 2 Thes 3. 12. 5. The fifth petition And forgive us our debts as even we forgive them that are debtors to us In this petition there is a frank and humble confession that we have sinned and stand guilty of original and actual transgressions and that there is no power in us to make satisfaction sor our sins for by the Law as by an obligation every man standeth bound to keep it holy and continually Deut. 27. 26. Gal. 3. 10. James 2. 10. So that the breach thereof even once and in the least point maketh us debtors presently as having forfeited our obligation So that no man can make amends unto God for it considering that whatsoever he doth after the breach is both imperfectly done and if it were perfect yet it is due by obligation of the Law and therefore cannot go for payment no more then a man can pay one debt with another 6. The sixt and last petition And lead us not into temptation but delievers from evil In this petition we pray that not only our sin may be pardoned but also that it may be mortified Rom. 6. 1 2. and that we may be either kept from temptation or preserved by his grace from being hurt thereby 1 Cor. 10. 13. 2 Cor. 12. 9. The effect of temptation without the special grace of God is extreamly evil to wit sin and damnation 1 Tim. 6. 9. Now seeing we cannot be tempted without the will of God Job 1. 10. nor resist without his power 2 Cor. 12. 9. If it be his blessed will that he would not let us fall into the one unless he preserve us in the other and that he would tie up Satan and restrain his malice and power or else make us wise to know and avoid his stratagems Of the World Flesh and Devil the three great enemies of man First of the World TAke the world in all its beauty bravery and glory and you shall find sorrow attend worldly joy danger attend worldly safety and loss attend worldly joy labours and tears attend worldly prosperity Where one thousand are destroyed by the worlds frowns ten thousand are destroyed by the worlds smiles it sings to us and sinks us it kisseth us and betrayeth us Let heaven be a mans object and the world will soon be a mans subject the fashion of this world passeth away why should we set our eyes upon that which is not heaven hath a foundation the earth hath none again worldly light is mixt with darkness Joy with sorrows pleasure with pain honour with dishonour riches with want wine with water honey with gall and our Sugar with wormwood and roses with prickles in a word worldly comforts entertained with great delight are seldom lost without exceeding great Sorrow and grief Of the Riches of this world THE good things of this world are not so absolutely given us but that God retains still a right to it and an interest in it and may demand it how and when he please And usually the worst of men have most of these outward things and the best of men have least of earth and most of heaven A man may be great and graceless with Pharaoh honourable and damnable with Saul rich and miserable with Dives A man may have enough of the world to sink him but he can never have enough of the world to save him A man may as soon fill a bag with wisdom and a chest with vertue or a circle with a tryangle as the heart of man with any thing here below therefore it is better to be gracious then great inwardly holy then outwardly happy the riches of this world although well gotten are but like the manna those that gathered less had no lack and those that gathered more had little or none to spare the consideration of this raysed up the spirits of those Saints Heb. 11. to triumph upon all the beauty bravery and glory of the world they having acquaintance with and an interest in a better and more durable riches these are uncertain riches For one storm at Sea one coal of fire one false friend or one unavised word may make a rich man a beggar and a prisoner altogether Oh how do riches hinder the actings of Faith upon God how do they interrupt our sweet communion with God how doth it abate our love to the people of God and cool our love to the things of God oh the deadness dulness and the barrenness that attend men having large possessions in this world and when they fall sick a crown of Gold cannot cure the head ach nor a velvet slipper the gout nor a chain of gold about the neck cannot take away the pain of the teeth Many times he that we account the richest man is the poorest man in the world VVE account him a poor man that doth want meat for his belly cloaths for his back and money in his purse and a house to put his head in and in this respect every man that is out of Christ although the most richest and honourablest man in the worlds account is but a poor man 1. He is a poor and beggarly man that hath no money in his purse now if your bags be full of gold and silver and your hearts empty of grace you are poor and beggarly in a Scripture account yea you are poor and blind and miserable and naked Rev. 3. 17. 2. He is a poor man that hath no meat to put in his belly but every man that is out of Christ doth not nor cannot feed upon that true manna the bread of life nor drink of that water of life John 6. 55. 3. He is a beggarly man that hath not an house to put his head in this is the case of all those that have no interest in Christ when death cometh they know not what to do nor where to go unless it be into a dungeon of darkness full of devils and damned Spirits Mat. 25. 41. 4. He is a poor man that hath no clothes to put on his back thus every man out of Christ is not only poor but naked too Rev. 3. 17. surely he is the poorest man in the world for he wanteth an interest in God Christ the Spirit and promises he wanteth peace with God and peace in conscience he wanteth acceptation and reconciliation he wanteth righteousness Justification and adoption and redemption he wanteth the pardon of sin and power against sin and freedom from the reign of sin he wanteth those riches that perish

understand these four choise things viz. 1. That Christ by the will of God gave himself a Ransome and sacrifice of a sweet smelling Savour unto God in behalf of the Elect Joh. 6. 7. Heb. 5. 10. 10. 9 10. Eph. 5. 2. 2. That this ransome was alone and by it self a perfect satisfaction to Divine Justice for all their sin Heb. 1. 3. When he had by himself purged our sins sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 10. 10. by the which will we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all verse 14. For by an offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified 1 John 1. 7. The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin 3. That God accepted it and declared himself well pleased and fully satisfied therewith Mat. 3. 17. And loe a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Isa 4. 2. 1 4 6. I will give thee for a Covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles c. God was so well pleased in him that he hath Covenanted and sworn that he will never remember their sins nor be wroth with them any more Isa 43. 25. 4. That by this ransome of his we are delivered from the curse of the Law Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us To close up all as to the nature of this Covenant Let me tell thee the main substance of the Covenant is in these words I will be their God and they shall be my people but sprinkling with clean water taking away the stony heart and giving a heart of flesh all these are nothing but the fruits of the Covenant So Christ is given for a Covenant to the people that is the Covenant of Grace takes its being from Christ to us Adam was all mankind as all mankind was in Adam in the loyns of Adam so Christ is the Covenant and all the Covenant is as it were in the loins of Christ and springs to us out of him in this sense he is the Covenant-maker he is the Covenant-undertaker he is the Covenant-manager he is the Covenant-dispenser he doth every thing in the Covenant he makes the articles he draws God the Father to an agreement unto the articles Psal 110. 3. thy people shall be a willing people in the day of thy power and God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himself 2 Cor. 5. 9. Hence Christ is also called the Mediator of the Covenant that is he is one that hath the managing of it on both sides and he alone is able to bring both sides together and make up a conclusion and thus Christ is the Covenant and the Mediator of the Covenant c. The second thing to be enquired into is with whom this Covenant was first made THis Covenant was not made with us but with Christ for us God did not immediately make this Covenant with us we were children of disobedience and of wrath who were not capable of any such Covenant and conditions but it was made with Christ for us that upon the making of his soul an offering for sin he would give unto his seed eternall life Zech. 9. 11. As for thee also by the blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water Adam lost his righteousness the foundation of the first Covenant But the righteousness of Christ the second Adam can never be lost it being grounded upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. The Covenant made with Christ hath these promises Gen. 12. 3. In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed 2 Cor. 1. 20. All the promises of God are Yea and Amen in him so then this Covenant was made with him actively as a person that performed all the conditions upon which the promises were grounded but with us passively as the Persons to whom the benefits of these promises do belong if Christ merited nothing for himself but wholly for the Elect of God then all the promises made to him do belong to them or the Covenant which was made with him as Mediator doth belong to us for whom he doth mediate Now the parties concerned in this Covenant are first God the Father and Jesus Christ the Mediator and the Church or body of Christ for whom he was to mediate Now this Covenant being made with Christ he as a Surety is bound to perform and see performed all the duties that God requires of believers so he was arrested and brought to the bar of Gods justice where he is convicted adjudged and arraigned as a sinfull transgressor so he suffered the uttermost rigor of the Law and not one grain of justice abated him nor a farthing of the debt forgiven him no nor so much as one sin unaccounted for or blotted out till satisfaction was first made and given But after the full account and perfect payment this Surety Christ Jesus pleaded for a dismission and discharge and so got a generall discharge acquittance and releasment under the King of Heavens hand and seal for us c. If any man desire further satisfaction whether this Covenant was first made with Christ for us yea or no. Let him consult with these precious Scriptures Psalm 89. 24 27 28. Hebr. 13. 20. Isaiah 42. 6. Isa 55. 3. Zach. 6. 13. Isa 50. 56. Zach. 9. 11. Isa 53. 10. Now if any one ask what were the conditions between the Father and the Son when this Covenant was made they are as followeth First see what God the Father promised unto Christ on his part 1. That he would anoint him and fill him with the Spirit above all others Heb. 1. 9. Isa 11. 2. 2. That he would prepare him a body to sacrifice for sins Heb. 10. 5 10. 3. That he would uphold him and strengthen him that he should not be ashamed by the things he should suffer Isa 42. 6. 50. 5 7. 4. That he would justifie and glorifie all his seed Isa 50. 8. Joh. 17. 22 24 Isa 53. 11. 5. That he should see and enjoy the travell of his soul and the purchases of his blood Isa 53. 10. Heb. 2. 7. 6. That he should have all power in heaven and in earth given him till all his enemies were made his footstool Ephes 5. 25 27 Matthew 28. 18. 1 Cor. 15. 28. Next let us examine what Christ did perform or promise to perform on his part 1. To become a Mediator Surety and Saviour for all those that his Father should give him Heb. 8. 6. Heb. 7. 22. Act. 13. 23. Ioh. 17. 11 12. Ephes 1. 10. Col. 1. 20. 1 John 2. 1. 2. To take upon him the nature of man and so to become flesh in his Fathers appointed time Gal. 4. 4. Mat. 11. 27. John 17. 4. 3. That he would glorifie his Father by keeping revealing and doing his will John 15. 10. John 6. 39. 4.

2. He gives repentance which is a flower that grows not in natures garden Jer. 13. 23. The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the Leopard his spots and that he doth give repentance as a gift to his doth appear by these Scriptures Acts 5. 31. 2 Tim. 2. 25. 3. He gives his Spirit Rom. 5. 5. 1. John 3. See Iohn 14. 26. 4. 13. 4. He gives a soul skill to lay hold upon and sweetly to apply the precious promises to himself 5. He gives peace Iohn 14. 27. My peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you 6. He doth give pardon of sins and that pardon of sins is a gift will appear Acts 5. 31. Acts 26. 18. compared with Psal 32. 1 2. 7. He doth give grace Iohn 1. 16. of his fulness we shall receive grace for grace 8. And lastly He gives himself Rom. 8. 32. he that hath given us his son how shall he not with him also give us all things In a word the Lord doth give his people spiritual and heavenly gifts pure gifts wine without water light without darkness gold without dross See Rev. 22. 1. James 3. 17. He gives soul-satisfying gifts most permanent and lasting and most useful gifts I had intended to have written something of the difference between Common and Special gifts and of the vast difference between the gifts that Christ gives and those the world gives But my Book I see would then swell too big c. I shall to this add but this word Christ doth voluntarily and freely give these gifts and graces never did a mother more willingly give her child suck then Jesus Christ bestows grace upon his people Isa 55. 1. Rev. 22. 17. So much of the graces gifts and vertues of the Spirit we shall now come to speak of the Ordinances of the Gospel in which these gifts and graces must and ought to be exercised I shall speak of ten or eleven of them which are standing Ordinances remaining to this day in full force and vertue Of the several Ordinances of the Gospel 1. OF the Assembling of our selves together 2. Of preaching and prophecying and attentive hearing 3. Of joynt prayer and supplication 4. Of singing and praising God together 5. Of the Ordinance of Baptism 6. Of the Lords Supper or breaking of bread 7. Of Collections for the poor 8. Of Reading the Scriptures 9. Of Admonition private and publick 10. Of Suspention 11. Of Excommunication First of the Ordinance of Assembling our selves together THE Church of God is in Scripture resembled to a natural body wherein are many members united to each other and to one head by one Spirit now in order to this union we are to assemble our selves together in obedience to that great command Heb. 10. 25. Not for saking the assembling of your selves together as the manner of some is Psal 122. 1. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go unto the house of the Lord. Those Saints that are assembled together according to a Gospel institution are a communion of Saints arising from a clea● apprehension of their union with Christ and his members 1 Cor. 12. 13 14. For by one Spirit we a●e all Baptized into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles bond or free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit for the body is not one member but many members Ver. 20. For now are they many members but one body Now when a man comes to see that every one in whom the Lord Jesus appeareth is a member together with him in the same body whereof Christ is the head then his heart longeth to joyn himself in fellowship with such who have fellowship with the Father and the Son 1 John 1. 3. And so goes out by the foot-steps of the flock and propounds himself to the Church and puts himself upon the tryal of the truth of that work of grace in his heart So that a Church is at first gathered by the word preached and faith received of them that hear it Mat. 28. 19 20. but to come to particulars I shall according to my measure speak or write of the Ordinance of assembling under these two heads 1. As it relates to those that are converted but never as yet joyned to any Church of Christ 2. As it relates to those that are converted and joyned to the Church of Christ 1. As it relates to those that are converted but never as yet joyned to any Church of Christ in order let them consider that it is their duty to propound themselves to and endeavour to joyn with the Church For first the Lord in his Word doth command it And secondly the example of the primitive Saints whose foot-steps we are to follow doth call for it and therefore you no sooner read of a people converted but the next news they were baptized and added to the Churches and good reason why because God commands us not to forsake the assembling of our selves together And secondly although our being depends not upon our joyning with a Church of Saints yet our well-being doth much depend upon it If any ask how or by what means is a Church at first gathered I would say to them again What is written how readest thou you are to observe no other Rule means or way then what is either exprest implyed or included in the holy Scriptures of truth where we may find out the right Ordinan●es Ministry and Government The right Constitution of a Church of Christ or the way at first to gather a Church 1. LET seven eight nine or ten or more of those men that are most sound in the Faith and most unblamable in their lives and conversation appoint one day to fast and pray together and earnestly seek unto God for his direction herein and toward the end of the day let them one by one give an account of the work of grace upon their hearts and of the hope that is in them and then give your selves up to the Lord and one to another by the will of God with no other Covenant then this to endeavour as God shall enlighten and enable you to walk together in the appointments Ordinances and institutions of Christ the head of the Church exprest implyed and contained in the Scriptures of truth which you take to be your rule c. 2. In the end of this meeting appoint your next meeting both time and place expecting the presence of Christ with you to assist and teach you according to his promise Mat. 18. 20. See the assemblies Annotations on this verse 3. You having proceeded thus far you may look upon your selves as a Church of Christ in its infancy and when other Christians by the word preached and Faith received desire to joyn with you in this or the next meeting let their names be propounded which being done let the brethren appoint a meeting to confer with them about the time when the place where the manner how the Lord did first appear