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.

The Springs of Faith, how God doth beget it in an unbeliever.

THere is no natural power in man to produce a cause within its self; this great grace of Faith is no fruit of the wisdom of the flesh, nor is it the birth of a corrupt will. The immediate and sole cause of Faith is the Spirit of God: He it is who is greater then the heart, who can perswade and draw the heart, and change and renew the Spirit: There be means appointed by God which he doth ordnarily bless, for the production of faith; as he hath ordained means for the revelation of Christ, so he hath sanctified means to lead the soul unto him, to implant Faith.

1. God lets the soul see that it is the command of God, that he should believe, and that faith is the

gift of God, without which we can do nothing accep∣tably; it is through grace that men believe, yet men are to use the means; now the great and ordinary means by which God works faith in the hearts of men, it is the preaching of the word▪ See Act. 13. 48. When the Gentiles heard this they were glad, and glo∣rified the word of the Lord, and as many as were or∣dained to life believed, Rom. 10. 17. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, Ephes. 1. 13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salva∣tion.

2. The preaching of the word doth discover to the soul, its extream misery, and great need of Christ, and makes him say, men and brethren, what shall I do to be saved.

3. It is that which casteth down all the rea∣sonings, arguments, and disputes of the mind against the conditions of Christ, and renders all the terms of Christ upon which he will be taken, as most equal, fair and resonable.

4. It is that which clears the way for the soul against all its fears, and unbelieving doubts; it layes before the sinner, the freeness of Gods mercy, the fulness of Christs Redemption, the willingness on Christs part to accept of him.

5. It is that sets the soul in a patient expectati∣on, to lie at the Pool, for ever to attend the as∣semblies of the Saints, and to enquire in his Temple, till the soul can take a close with Christ, by true be∣lieving.

6▪ Means to get faith; take one promise, and charge that upon the heart, and if the heart be stub∣born,

and will not yeild, then take another, if that will not do, then take another; and lay that home upon the heart, and never leave this work till you have gotten some smal measure of Faith.

7. Make as much conscience of those commands that require you to believe, as you do of those com∣mands that do require you to hear, read, and medi∣tate, and pray.

Lastly, consider for thy encouragement that bles∣sed text, Psalm 147. 11. The Lord taketh plea∣sure in those that hope in his Mercy. See Psalm 33. 18.