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 time how long the Judgement shall last.

VVE read in the Scripture that the time is a day; but there are three opinions among Christians about this word day.

1. Some take the day here spoken of precisely and properly, as if the day of the last judgement should not exceed that space and proportion of time.

2. Some conceive that by the day is meant a thou∣sand years, because some are said to sit on thrones, and have judgement given unto them, that is power of Judging, and to live and reign with Christ a thou∣sand years, Rev. 20. 4. but I conceive that this judge∣ment and reign of a thousand years cannot be under∣stood of the last Judgement, because death the last enemy shall in the resurrection be destroyed; now after the end of the thousand years mentio∣ned by Saint John, Satan shall be loosed out of the prison, and the nations deceived by him, shall compass the camp of the Saints about, and the beloved City; and fire shall come down from God out of heaven and devour them all.

3. Others seem more safely to apprehend that the day here mentioned is to be taken improperly, for time indefinitely, it being in Scripture very ordinary to put a day for time: in an acceptable time have I heard thee, in a day of Salvation have I helped thee, Isa. 49. 8. If thou hadst known in this thy day, Luke 19. 42. Your Father Abraham rejoyced to see my day, John 8. 56, &c. there must be a day wherein that great work of judgement must begin, but the durati∣on thereof is to be measured by the nature of the

thing and the counsel of God; so I can determine no∣thing peremptorily concerning the continuance of the last judgement.