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 some of the benefits a Christian shall have at his coming.

THE day is at hand, O perplexed soul, when thou shalt have smiles without frowns, light without darkness▪ day without night, wine without water, sweet without bitter, and joy without sorrow; thou now sowest in tears, thou shalt then reap in joy, yea everlasting joy shall be upon thy head, and sorrow and sighing shall fly away; the blessings to be enjoyed at this great day, are truly great, we should love the appearance of Christ, and look for, and haste to the coming of the day of God. O why is his Chariot so long in coming! Oh that the day should be so great, and our desires so small! Shall the Marriner desire his Port? the Apprentice his freedom? the imprisoned his liberty? the sick his health? the Spouse the day of her marriage? a malefactor his pardon? a labourer his rest? an heir his inheritance? and shall not a Christian long for that day which removes every sorrow, supplies every want, and makes us like him? viz.

1. From being a weak body, we shall be made strong, 1 Cor. 15. 44.

2. From being a mortal body, it shall be made spi∣ritual, 1 Cor. 15. 53.

3. It shall be free from all pain, and suffering, and sorrow, and sighing, Rev. 21. 4.

4. Our lumpish body shall be like the An∣gels, even like Christs body, Mat. 22. 30.

5. This blessed change will put an end to all un∣profitable changes; here we change joy for sorrow,

health for sickness, credit for disgrace, but here it will end, Rev. 21. 4.

6. Christ will put a change to our employment; our work at present is praying, groaning, sighing, mourning, wrestling, and fighting, Ephesians 6. 10. But then our work will be rejoycing and praysing.

7. Christ will change our enjoyment as well as our employment, viz. he will change our more inconstant enjoyment for a more constant, and he will change our more dark and obscure enjoyment, for a more clear enjoyment, and so turn our sighing into singing, and our trembling into re∣joycing, and our prison into a Paradise, and so qui∣et our conscience, and scatter our fears.

8. He will make his people the head and not the tail, as doth at large appear by these Scriptures, Isa. 62. 8, 9. Joel 2. 23, 24. Mich. 4. 4. Amos 9. 13, 14. Zach. 8. 12. Isa. 41. 18, 19. Jer. 31. 12. Isa. 30. 23. Isa. 55. 13. & 66. 6, 7. & 65. 21, 22. & 61. 4. & 60. 10. when he shall appear, we shall receive a crown of glory, 1 Pet. 5. 4. and if that be too little, we shall receive a crown of righteousness, 2 Tim. 4. 8. when he shall appear, we shall appear with him in glory, Col. 3. 4. when he shall appear, we shall be like him, 1 John 3. 2.