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 end of the world.

THE consequents of the last judgement is life eternal in heaven or hell, and the end of the world: having finished the former, let me point to the latter, and I have finished what I intended: we read Mat. 24. 3. that Peter, James, John and Andrew, Mark. 13. 3. came to Christ and desired him to satisfie them in these three questions.

• 1. Concerning the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.
• 2. Concerning Christs second coming, and the signs thereof.
• 3. Concerning the end of the world, &c.

The answer to the first question is from ver. 4. to ver. 23.

The answer to the second is from ver. 24. to ver. 36.

The answer to the third question is from ver. 36. to the end of that Chapter.

In which Christ tels them that the very day and hour no man knoweth; that day is hidden from us, that we might not be secure, but alwayes prepa∣red, expecting the day of his coming, and hope

for it, and have a special care, that that certain uncertain hour come not upon us unawares, Luke 12. 40.

The end of the world is the destruction of this vi∣sible universe: as the wicked are thrust into hell, and the godly entred into heaven: this is called the con∣summation of the world, it shall be destroyed by fire, 2 Pet. 3. 6, 7, 10, 12, &c. but what kind of fire this is, he only knows, who is himself a consuming fire.

Some understand that this world shall be destroyed only in its quality, others in its substance; they who think it shall be destroyed only in qualities, mean a purging, and restauration of it to its primitive insti∣tution.

But the reader may do well to take notice, that it is one thing to be restored and changed into a better state, and another thing to wax old like a garment, and to vanish like smoak, to be dissolved, to melt, to be burned, to pass away, to be no more, as these Scriptures affirm, 1 Cor. 7. 31. Psal. 102. 26, 27. and Heb. 1. 11. Isa. 51. 6. Mat. 24. 35. 2 Pet. 3. 7, 10, 12. Rev. 21. 1.