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 day of judgement shall be a great Day.

THIS day shall be a great day; first in respect of the judge, attended with a great number of Saints and Angels, even all his Servants waiting upon him, 1 Thes. 1. 13. Secondly this day shall be great in respect of the judged, as they fall under a four-fold consideration.

1. In respect of the greatness of their company and number.

2. In respect of the greatness of their ranks and dergees.

3. The greatness of their faults and offences.

4. In respect of the greatness of their rewards and recompences.

1. In respect of the greatness of their number, Matthew 25. 32. and 2 Thes. 2. 1. We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body.

2. The day shall be great in respect of the great∣ness of their ranks and degrees; the high and migh∣ty Emperors, as well as the poorest out-casts; the tallest Cedar, as well as the stoutest heart, must bend and break at that day, Psalm 110. 5. there will be no other crowns worn at that day, but the crowns of righteousness: no other robes, but those washed in the blood of Christ.

3. The day of judgement will be great in respect of their faults and offences▪ the least sin will appear exceeding great, the smallest offence unpardoned, is against a God infinite; the least sin will then be looked upon, as that which put God upon complaining, Christ upon bleeding, and the Spirit upon grieving. Oh how will the scarlet, crimson transgressions, at which natural conscience is affrighted, appear at that day? those blasphemies, murthers, open oppressions, unnatural uncleanness, &c.

4. This day shall be great in respect of the great∣ness of their rewards, and recompences; there will be the loss of Gods presence to the one, and the freedom of all misery to the other, and the stamp of eternity put upon both; it shall be a righteous sentence, every cause shall be judged rightly; Christ is called a righ∣teous Judge, 1 Tim. 4. 8. in righteousness doth he judge, Rev. 19. 11. The Scepter of his Kingdom is a rig••teous Scepter, he loves righteousness, Psal. 45. 6, 7. The day of judgement is a day of the revelation

of the righteous judgement of God; righteousness shall be the girdle of his loyns, this Judge cannot be byassed by favour, there is no respect of persons with God: he regardeth not the persons of men.

To draw towards a close, let the reader consi∣der, that in this great day of judgement, God will bring in every secret thing, whether it be good or bad, Eccles. 12. 14. For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, whether it be good or bad, 2 Cor. 5. 10. For he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness, Act. 17. 31.

Oh did we meditate sometimes on this day, and think of the preparations to it, and the acting of it, and the execution of the sentence, we should trem∣ble at his word; surely at this day our consciences shall be so enlightned, that all shall perfectly remem∣ber what ever good or evil they did in the time of their life, the secrets of all hearts being then reveal∣ed; and some shall be judged according to the Law of God, which hath been revealed unto men, whether it be the Law of nature only, which is written in the hearts of all, to leave them without excuse, or that written word of God. First, the Old Testament, and after also of the New, as the ground of faith, and the rule of life, Romans 2. 12. and so by the evidence of every mans conscience, bringing all his works to remembrance, bearing witness with him, or against him, together by the testimony of such, who by Doctrine or example have approved or condemn∣ed him.

What shall I say more, this will be a great day in this respect also, viz. as Christ doth come to judge

things that are not judged; so also he doth come to judge over again things that are judged amiss, Eccles. 3. 16, 17. Moreover I saw under the Sun the place of judgement, that wickedness was there, and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there: Then I said in my heart, God shall judge the world in righteousness, yea he shall judge both the righteous and the wicked, Mark 13. 32. But of that day, and that hour knoweth no man, no not the Angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. See Mat. 24. 36, &c. God is a knowing Judge, a righteous Judge, a powerful Judge.

I shall now proceed in order to speak of the state of both the damned and saved, after the judgement is over, and the sentence given, and so close up all with a few words of advice; and so of the end of the world.