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.

How many waies the Lord is said to forgive sin; Or the various names and expressions of forgiveness.

1. FIrst Aaron by a special command from God, Lev. 16. 21. Was to lay his haad upon the head of the goat, and confess over him all the iniqui∣ties of the children of Israel. and all their transgresti∣ons, puting them upon the head of the goat, and the goat did bare away all their iniquities, into the land not inhabited, verse 22.

2. The Lord tels us he hath cast all our sins be∣hind his back, Isa. 38 17. Thou hast cast all my sins, saith he, behind thy back, &c.

3. We read that our sins are cast into the bottom of the sea, Micah 7. 17.

4. The Lord tels us in his word, that our sins are blotted out, Isa. 43. 25. I, even I am he that blot∣teth out thy transgressions for my own sake, Isa. 44. 22.

5. The Lord tels us our sins are covered, Psal. 32. 1. Blessed is the man whose sins are covered, and transgressions for given.

6. The Lord tels us he will remember our sins no more, Jer. 31. 34. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.

7. The Lord saith he will not impute sin to us,

Rom. 4. 8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin; he will not impute sin, that is, he will not set sin on our score, he will not put sin to our account; though sin be in us, yet it is not imputed to us.

8. The Lord tells us, that so far at the East is from the West, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us, Psal. 103. 12. What shall I say more, who is a God like unto him, that pardoneth iniquity, trans∣gression and sin, which comprehends all sin of what nature, kind and degree whatsoever, unless the un∣perdonable sin (iniquity is that which is done against another man) Sin is that which is done against a mans felf, and transgression that which is done im∣mediatly against God, but all these are pardoned for his own sake, Isa. 43. 25.