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 May 8, 2024.

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Page 139

Of the mischief brought upon many for one sin.

ONE sin cast Adam out of Paradise, and the Angels out of heaven: Annanias and Saphira for one lye were stricken dead; so was Ʋzza for once touching the Ark: One sin brought misery up∣on Esau for selling his birth-right, and David for Numbering the people; the sin of Saul, his sin be∣ing but one, and that of omission too, in not killing

Agag the King of the Amalekites, he was utterly cast off by the Lord for the same, though he was his annointed and chosen servant before. I have lately read in a Book of Mr. Thomas Brooks, of the mis∣chief brought upon many precious men for one only sin, viz. One sin tript up the heels of Noah, the most righteous man then in the world: One sin cast down Abraham, the greatest Believer in the world: One sin threw down David, the best King in the world: One sin cast down Paul, the greatest Apostle in the world: One sin threw down Sampson, the strongest man in the world: Another cast down Solomon, the wisest man in the world; And another Moses, the meekest man in the world: And another sin cast down Job, the patientest man▪ in the world.

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