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 Riches of this world.

THE good things of this world are not so abso∣lutely given us, but that God retains still a right to it, and an interest in it, and may demand it, how and when he please, And usually the worst of men have most of these outward things, and the best of men have least of earth, and most of heaven.

A man may be great and graceless with Pharaoh, honourable and damnable with Saul, rich and mise∣rable with Dives: A man may have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough of the world to save him: A man may as soon fill a bag with wisdom, and a chest with vertue, or a circle with a tryangle, as the heart of man with any thing here below, therefore it is better to be gracious then great, inwardly holy, then outwardly happy; the riches of this world, although well gotten, are but like the manna, those that gathered less had no lack, and those that gathered more, had little or none to spare; the consideration of this raysed up the spirits of those Saints, Heb. 11. to triumph upon all the beauty, bra∣very, and glory of the world, they having acquaint∣ance with, and an interest in a better and more dura∣ble riches; these are uncertain riches. For one storm at Sea, one coal of fire, one false friend, or one una∣vised word may make a rich man a beggar, and a pri∣soner altogether: Oh how do riches hinder the actings of Faith upon God, how do they interrupt our sweet

communion with God, how doth it abate our love to the people of God, and cool our love to the things of God? oh the deadness, dulness and the barrenness that attend men having large possessions in this world, and when they fall sick, a crown of Gold cannot cure the head ach, nor a velvet slipper the gout, nor a chain of gold about the neck, cannot take away the pain of the teeth.