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

AS the Law requireth obedience, so the Gospel directeth us how to perform it, 1 Tim. 1. 9, 10, 11. The Law commands us to worship God as our Creator, the Gospel commandeth us to wor∣ship him in Christ, as our Saviour; the Law like Pharaoh requires brick, but allows no straw, the Gospel both allows strength and supplies, Rom. 10. 5, 6, 8.

But yet as the Law saveth us not without the Gospel, so the Gospel saveth us not without the Law, which directeth us in our duty both to God and man, Deut. 5. 32.

At the giving of the Law the mountain burned, the trumpet sounded, the people fled, and Moses trembled, and all this to teach us that we should be very careful to perform obedience to the same.

Object. What was the Ceremonial Law?

Answ. It was that which did prescribe orders for direction in rites of outward worship, only sha∣dowing the grace of the Gospel. Heb. 10. 1.

But the substance of this▪ Law being come, those shadows are utterly abolished, by the death of Christ, and therefore the use of them now would be a kind of denyal of his death.

Quest. What was the Judicial Law?

Answ. That wherein God appointed a form of civil government of the Common-wealth. Now this Law is not utterly revoked and abolished by

Christ, for he came not to over-turn any good government.

Quest. What is the Moral Law?

Answ. That which commandeth perfection of godliness and righteousness, and directeth us in our duties both to God and man, Deut. 5. 32, 12. 32.

Quest. Are not we delivered from this Law by the means of Christ?

Answ. From the burden of the Law, exacting in our own persons perfect obedience, and from the curse of the Law, due unto disobedience, we are de∣livered by Christ, Gal. 3. 10, 11, 12, 13. but from the commandment as a rule of life, we are not freed, Jam. 2. 8.

For the Law doth lay a charge upon all the powers of the soul, viz. First, it doth charge the under∣standing to know every duty, even all the will of God; it chargeth the judgement to discern between good and evil; it chargeth the memory to retain it; it chargeth the will to chuse the better, and to leave the worse; it chargeth the affections to love those things that are lovely, and to hate things that are un∣comely.