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.

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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.
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Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.
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London :: Printed by R.W. for Thomas Brewster, at the three Bibles, at the west end of Pauls,
1657.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91363.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Of the subject of this Faith.

THE subject of this Faith is a sensible sinner; there are two sorts of sinners.

1. Some generally corrupted, both in their na∣tures and in their lives, and they are as unsensible as they are sinful, they know not their own vileness; these are not the subjects of this precious Faith.

2. There are sensible experienced sinners, who

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loath themselves, and groan under the burden of their sins; I must confess there are several degrees of this sensibleness, neither dare I to assume the height and latitude of it, unto the terms, or horrour, and terrour, and dejections, before he can believe in Christ; no, though these sharp throws are manifest in some, yet let us not make them a rule for all; but this be sure, that the heart looks not towards Christ, until it feel it self to be sinful and lost, then and not till then, the soul looks out and enquires after a Savi∣our; and anon he finds it written, that Christ ame not to call the righteous, but sinners; and that Christ was sent to find that which was lost; and that the whole need not a Physitian but the sick▪ and that he is sent to preach liberty to the Captives.

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