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.

Of the impediments of assurance.

1. THE first impediment of assurance that I shall name, is this, our measuring of the merey and bowels of God, by the narrow scantling of our dark understanding.

2. Another is our making sense, reason and feeling the sole judge of our spiritual condi∣tion.

3. Another impediment of assurance is, our re∣taining so many despairing thoughts, not considering that despair is one of the worst sins, viz. It is a dis∣henour to God, and a reproach to Christ, a resisting of the Spirit of Grace, and a murderer of the soul, a belying of God, a denying of Christ, and a crown∣ing of Satan, and a proclaiming the Devil conqueror; J••das did sin more by despairing then by betraying of Christ.

4. Another impediment of assurance is, our not

reading and believing these and the like precious pro∣mises, Num. 14. 19, 20. Exod. 34. 6, 7. Mich. 7. 18, 19. Isa. 30. 18, 19. Psalm. 38. 34. to the 40. Psal. 103. to the 13. Jer. 3. 1. to 12. Luk. 15. 20. to 24. 1 Tim. 1. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

5. Another impediment of assurance is our living in the neglect of some of Gods Ordinances, when we wait on God in some of his wayes, but not in all, viz. Some will wait upon God, in hearing the word of life, and yet neglecting the breaking the bread of life: sometimes God will give assurance in one Ordinance, and deny it in another, that we may seek his face in all, 1 Cor. 28. 8.

6. Our dallying with sin; he that doth lye down in sin must live in fear, there is no assurance for us, unless we offer up our Isaac, and part with our Ben∣jamin, pull out our right eye, and cut off our right hand, &c.