Item Information | 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. | Early English Books Online 2 | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

Of God the Father.

Of the Son.

Of the Holy Ghost.

Of Gods Decrees.

Of Election.

Of Reprobation.

Of the Creation.

Of Angels.

Of Man.

Of the Soul.

Of Mans Fall.

Of Providence.

Of Mans recovery.

Of Vocation or effectuall calling.

That we may be neither drawn, enticed, or forced from our Religion, let us build upon a right foundation.
The second thing to be enquired into, is with whom this Covenant was first made.
The third thing to be enquired into, is when this Covenant was made with us.
The fourth thing to be enquired into is, whether there be any conditions of this Covenant on our part, and if so, what those conditions are.
The fifth thing to be enquired into is, whether it be one and the same Covenant of grace that was in force before the Law, and under the Law, and under the Gospel.
The sixth thing to be enquired into is, whether this Covenant may not be broken, as the first Covenant of works was.
The seventh thing to be enquired into is, what means should one make use of to get into this Covenant of Grace.
The eighth thing to be enquired into is this, when may a man or woman be said to be in this Covenant.
The ninth thing to be considered of, is this, wherein doth the Covenant of grace, and the Covenant of works differ.
The tenth thing to be enquired into is this, what is Gods oraer and method, that he generally makes us of, to bring his people into the bond of the Covenant, and to bestow the blessings of the Covenant upon them.
The eleventh thing to be enquired into is, what are the blessings and benefits of this Covenant to us-ward.
The twelfth thing to be enquired into, is this, viz. notwithstanding this blessed Covenant of grace contained in the Gospel, whether most men and women in the world be not un∣der a Covenant of works.

Of Justification by Grace.

Several strong reasons why the Saints should walk holily, notwithstanding the Covenant is free, and justification is free▪ and salvation it self is of grace, not of works.

Of sanctification, or a holy conversation according to a Gospel Rule.

Of Justification and Sanctification, how they differ, and wherein they agree.

Of Faith, the quality, object, acts, seat, subject, inseparable concomitants and degrees of Justi∣fying Faith: the difficulty of believing, and the faculty of mistaking about it.

Of Repentance unto life.

The Nature of sin. The Springs or Rise of sin. The ready way to mortifie sin.

Of Knowledge, first of God, secondly of our selves: the properties of it, and means of attaining it, and the benefits we have by it.

Of Obedience.

Of Experience.

Of Enjoyment.

Of love, the nature of it, several sorts and kinds of it: How its wrought in the heart, tryals of it, and properties of it: means of attaining it, and impediments of it, and in∣ducements to it.

Of the grace of hope, the nature of it, and the properties of it, and encouragements to it, and Characters of it.

Of Perseverance, what it is.

Of the gifts of the Spirit, and what those best gifts are that Christ gives to his best beloved ones.

More particularly, let us enquire into this, what those best gifts are that Christ gives unto his best beloved ones.

Of the several Ordinances of the Gospel.

Of assurance of Salvation.

Of the difference between the Law and the Gos∣pel; and of the several sorts of Laws.

Of the ten Commandments.

Of the Lords prayer and the several petitions therein contained.

Of the World, Flesh and Devil, the three great enemies of man.

Of afflictions, why God doth afflict his own peo∣ple, and how to know what Sin God aims at in affliction; and when a man may be said to suffer for wel-doing, and when for evil doing.

When a man may be said to suffer for well-dong, and when for evil doing.

The Lord is many times better then his word, never worse.

Mercies and deliverances are many times near∣est to us, when we think they be furthest off.

The Lord doth many times hand forth his mer∣cies to us by the rule of contraries.

The Lord doth not despise the day of small things.

The order of causes, how God comes downward, from the causes to, the effects; and how we must go upward, from the effects to the causes.

Mans life is, or should be guided by these vertues.

Several Divine Sentences.

Divers knotty questions answered, and seeming contradictions in the Scripture, reconciled, and many Scruples of conscience removed.

The shortness of mans life, and the misery that doth attend every age and condition of all men that live and delight in sin, and lie down in Sorrow.

Of the Miseries attending both body and soul in the hour of death, if they see not their in∣terest in Christ.

Of the sad Condition and Misery of all out of Christ after death.

A Preparation for death, that it may not come upon us before we are ready to dye.

The action or actions are these.

The great and terrible day of the Lord is near dawning, and the glory of all flesh staining, the Kingdom of Christ appearing, and the restitution of all things approaching; this great Mysterie opened, the grounds thereof examined, the truth cleared, and the ig∣norance of many in this Mysterie disco∣vered.

Of the resurrection of the dead, at the second com∣ing of Christ.

There is a first and a second Resurrection.

Of the Reign of Christ, or kidgdom of Christ in this world, though not of this world.

Of the last judgement, the signs that go before it, what is meant by it, the place where, the person who, the time how long the judgement shall last, out of what we shall be judged, this day shall be a great Day.

Of the sad condition of a man out of Christ af∣ter his death, judgement and sentence passed, viz. Go ye cursed.

Of the happy and blessed estate of the Elect in Heaven.

What use we may make of all these precious things.

Of the end of the world.

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