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 Obedience.
TRue obedience or keeping of Gods command∣ments, flows Originally from the true knowledge of God, to which we have been speak∣ing, so that here obedience fals in its centre and place; there is a three-fold obedience, viz.
1. There is an obedience both true and per∣fect, this was performed by Christ on earth, and by Saints and Angels in Heaven, Phil. 2. 8. Mat. 6. 10.
2. There is another kind of obedience, that is neither true nor perfect, done by all natural men; they fail in the ground from which, the rule by which, and the end to which, Rom. 8. 8.
3. There is a true and sincere, but an im∣perfect obedience, which is performed by Saints on earth: in all their obedience there is some imper∣fection,
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something polluted, and something de∣fective; yea the most spiritual obedience is not wound up to command, they are all tainted with disproportion to rule; and not only so, but our choicest services are be Leoparded with many spots, yet the bent and main disposition of their hearts are upright and unfeigned, notwithstanding there be some gradual infirmities and imperfections in all their actions: concerning obedience, what it is, the ground and springs of it, I have before in this book at large laid down under the head of justification, and also more larger under the head of sanctification, and therefore I shall speak no fur∣ther to it here, but to proceed the next point that comes in order.
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