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.

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

GOD promised to Abraham a son, and that his seed should be as the stars of heaven, and the Lord made good this by the rule of contraries; there was fourteen years between Gods making the pro∣mise, and giving him a son, and he was about one hundred years old before he had a son, and Sa∣rahs womb was barren; and after this son was born, God calleth upon Abraham to offer him up, yet not∣withstanding all this, the Lord made good his pro∣mise, and Abraham staggered not at the promise of God, Rom. 4. 20, 21. Again, we find Exod. 14. when the children of Israel were in the greatest streight, and at the furthest distance from all humane helps, not knowing what to do, then, even then the Lord delivered them, Luke 21. 28. When ye see these things come to pass, then lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh: one would have thought ruin was nigh, to see such things come to pass, John 9. 15. Christ put clay upon the blind mans eyes; one would think clay should have made him more blind, Hest. 3. 12, 13. All the Jews were designed for death, Hest. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12. This de∣sign, contrary to all expectation, was discovered and revoked, and the Jews preserved by the rule of contraries: so Joseph had a promise by way of vision to be made a great man, but contrary to this, he was sold into Egypt, and there cast into prison, yet at last he got the mercy: we might instance in

Job and many others, but this may suffice to prove this truth, that God doth oft times hand forth his mercies to us by the rule of contraries, &c. This would be of great use to Christians, if more con∣sidered.