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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Title: 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.
Author: Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.
Publication: London :: Printed by R.W. for Thomas Brewster, at the three Bibles, at the west end of Pauls,; 1657.
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Several sorts or kinds of Love.

BEsides what hath been spoken in the foregoing head, there are several sorts and kinds of love; as, First there is a fleshly and carnal love, which is altogether sinful. Secondly, there is a naturall ove, as in a Parent to a child, and one relation to ano∣ther. Thirdly, there is a civil love, such as one neighbour and friend hath to another. Fourthly, there is a religious love, and that is twofold, the one is subordinate to the other, viz. First there is our love to God. Secondly to his people, as they bear his image. First to God himself, who is the very essence of love, he is nothing else but love, God is love, neither should there be any thing beloved by us, but as it either conveys love to us from him, or else deaws up our affections to him; there is also a love to our enemies required of us, which we ought to be found in the practise of, in obedience to the command of God, and in love and pitty to their poor souls, Mat. 5. 44.

But that love that I shall treat of is, that love spoken to in Scripture, which is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, Rom. 5. 5.