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.

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

FIrst, for well-doing.

1. That man that doth suffer for well-do∣ing, in the account of God, according to his word, his person must be holy, he or she must be in the main godly.

2. The cause that they suffer for must be good, it must be for righteousness sake, viz. either for his believing in Christ, pleading for him, or practizing of his commandments, and so his affliction will be better then the prosperity of the wicked, Psalm 37. 15.

They shall have more comfort in scantness, ob∣scurity, then wicked men have in plenty, credit and great felicity, 2 Cor. 4. 8, 9. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

3. He that doth suffer for well-doing, he must suffer in a right manner; first humbly: secondly pa∣tiently and meekly: thirdly cheerfully: fourthly, he that doth suffer for Christ, must have good ends, &c.

1. He must suffer humbly: we read of Christ, whose footsteps we ought to follow, that he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, he opened not his mouth.

2. As he did suffer humbly, so he did suffer pati∣ently.

3. He did suffer cheerfully.

4. He did not revile again, when he was revi∣led; when he was threatned, he did not threaten again.

4. He that doth suffer for Christ, must have good ends in his suffering, viz.

1. To bare witness to some truth of Christ, con∣tained in the Scriptures.

2. To bare witness for the name and glory of God, 1 Pet. 4. 13.

But when a man doth that which is evil, and doth suffer for it, this is not thank-worthy with God: See these Scriptures, 1 Pet. 2. 20. 1 Pet. 4. 15, 19.

Many men that suffer and glory therein, suffer only for their faults, and are in no wise acceptable to God.