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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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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 God the Father.

GOD is a Spirit, having his being in himself, and giving being to all things, Ioh. 4. 24. Exod. 3. 14.

In a word, he is,

  • 1. Without composition.
  • 2. Infinite, Psa. 147. 5. & 145. 3. Exod. 3. 14.
  • 3. He is eternall, Pro. 8. 20, 22, 23. Rom. 16. 26.
  • 4. Incomprehensible, Exod. 33. 22, 23. 1 Tim. 6. 16. Isa. 66. 1.
  • 5. Unchangable, Jam. 1. 17. Mal. 3. 6.

He comprehends all things, and is comprehended

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of nothing. He is without beginning and end, for by him, and in him all things begin and end, Act. 17. 28. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; he is present in all places, at all times, beholding and seeing all things, Prov. 15. 3. Psal. 139. 4. Job 9. 11. 2 Chron. 16. 9. Jer. 23. 23, 24.

  • Two things in God.
    • 1. There is something incommunicable, as infinite∣ness, immensity, eternity, 1 Kin. 8. 27. & 1 Tim. 1. 17.
    • 2. There is something in God communicable, as love and mercy, Exod. 34. 6. Wisdom and Power, Job 36. 9.

Perfection, glory, and blessedness, this God is to be known in the first Adam; and in the second Adam in his ordinances, and in his Saints: Now we must know God, otherwise we cannot.

  • 1. Desire him, Joh. 4. 10.
  • 2. If we know him not, how can we obey him.
  • 3. If we know him not, how can we have com∣munion and fellowship with him, 1 Joh. 1. 5, 6, 7. All nature is not able to teach us what God is in himself, neither can man in nature comprehend him, Job 36. 26. 1 Tim. 6. 16. Yet may he be known by his properties and actions, God is a spi∣rituall substance, having his being of himself, infi∣nite, great and good, Ioh. 4. 24. & 8. 58. Exod. 3. 14. & 34. 6, 7. Psal. 145. 3, 8, 9.
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