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A91363	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.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4237; Thomason E1575_1; ESTC R209217	254,040	517

of peace ariseth from a souls resting satisfied in Christs righteousness adding nothing to it Psal 71. 15 16 19 24. and Psal 119. 142. I will make mention of thy righteousness even of thine only for thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness See Jer. 33. 16. the perfection of Christs righteousness is held forth unto us and alwayes lieth before us that we may be thankfull for it and peaceable with it and rejoyce in the bestower of it the Lord Jesus having spoken peace to the soul and acquainted the soul that he hath paid all his debts for it and that his sins which were so many shall be remembred no more then the soul begins to be filled with joy and peace in beleiving beholding and enjoying Christs righieousness which begets in the soul a perfect peace a precious peace a full and compleat peace and an everlasting peace 4. The next vein through which peace is conveyed to the soul is by our acquainting our selves with him Job 22. 21. Acquaint now thy self with him and be at peace thereby so good shall come unto thee now by thy acquainting thy self with him these things will fall in First thou wilt see that thou wast cast out to the loathing of thy soul and no eye pittying thee much less to relieve thee that then even then when man was ready to perish should be the time of love with God whereby he cast his skirt of compassion over him and said unto him again live Oh ye Heavens stand amazed and oh thou earth flesh and blood rejoyce and triumph for when there was no eye to pitty thee the arm of the Lord hath brought salvation by raising up a mighty one out of the house of his servant David even Christ the Lord the wondefull Counsellor the mighty God mighty to save the everlasting Father the Prince of peace who became man under the Law and obligation to obedience and not only so but also became our Surety for us to do suffer and fulfill that for us which we were no waies able to do for our selves The Covenant of works rested in and trusted unto can never work settled comfort and peace and quietness of heart let a man walk as exactly as ever flesh and blood can attain unto let him as confidently build on this foundation as he possibly may yet the heart will be still in suspition in doubt in fear uncertain what to trust unto but the Doctrine of grace rested in and trusted unto doth settle a soul in peace this is a sure Anchor for the soul to rest upon let waves swell and winds blow he retains a firm peace stand here and we are safe for ever Rom. 5. 1 2. 3. Thirdly This Doctrine is the Root and Spring of all Gospel obedience whatsoever men call obedience if it ariseth not from hence it is but forced and legal we must get up Gospel principles if we would keep up Gospel practises Wheresoever this Doctrine of grace is received and retained in the love and power of it it works these five things in the soul viz. Faith Love Fear Willingness and Chearfulness and from these five things as from five Springs doth all Gospel obedience arise 1. True obedience doth flow from Faith hence it is called the obedience of Faith Rom. 16.26 in the latter part of this Chapter we read of a mysterie revealed and what that mysterie was it was the Doctrine of Gods grace and the end why it was revealed was for the Obedience of Faith see Rom. 1. 5. 2. As Faith in Christ doth put the soul upon heavenly and spiritual actings so also love constrains them in whom it is to keep the Lords commandments John 14. 21 23. compared with Psalm 26. 3 4. If ye love me keep my commandments For thy loving kindness is before mine eyes saith David and I have walked in thy truth 3. As true obedience doth spring from Faith and Love so it is attended with an holy fear Psalm 119. 161. My heart saith David doth stand in awe of thy word Heb. 11. 7. Noah being warned of God touching things not seen was moved with fear and so prepared an Ark. 4. As Gospel obedience doth spring from Faith Love and Fear so it ariseth from a willing mind Psalm 27. 8. when thou saidst seek ye my face my heart answered Lord thy face will I seek as David had said O Lord it is thy great command seek ye my face my heart saith unto thee it is the desire of my soul thy command is become my request thy face Lord will I seek 5. As Gospel-obedience springs from Faith Love and fear and a willing mind so it is performed chearfully and delightfully Psal 40. 8. I delight to do thy will O God thy Law is in my heart as well as in thy Book What shall I say more a soul receiving believing retaining and standing in the true grace of God shall be every way furnished and supplyed with strength to perform any duty to exercise any grace to subdue any lust to resist any temptation to bear any affliction c. Sure if the bowels of mercy do not melt win and draw us Justice will be a swift witness against us And as the Branch cannot bear fruit except it abide in the vine John 15. 4. no more can ye except ye abide in me Gods free love manifested to us and by his Spirit shed abroad in us is the cause of our love to him 1 John 4. 10 19. And our love to him is the cause of our obeying him 1 John 5. 3. John 14. 15 21 23. we read in Jer. 31. 19. After that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh That is as if he had said after that thou hast wrought a gracious change upon my soul by thine afflicting hand out of thy love to me Heb. 12. 6. Or after I came to my self again Luke 15. 17 and considered seriously with my self how it was with me I was touched with repentance with sorrow and with shame for my former miscariages 4. Fourthly this Doctrine received and the heart therein established will be a stop and bar to keep out all floods of errour The floods of all errour flow in at the pipe of ignorance and especially ignorance of this very thing viz. The Doctrine of grace the errour of the Papists of building and resting upon works springs from their ignorance of this blessed Docrtine the errour of the Quaker springs purely from hence the errour of the Arminian springs in at the same pipe partly by works and partly by grace they not seeking salvation by grace but as it were by the works of the Law they stumbled and fell Rom. 9. 32. And all the unstability formality legality that there is at this day appearing amongst the Presbyterian Independant and Baptist or any other people professing godliness doth arise from their ignorance or their little knowledge in this great mysterie nay farther did you

our selves to be justified from our sins by faith in the blood of Christ is the cause of our love to Christ 1 Joh. 4. 10 19. 6. Our love to Christ is the cause of our obeying of Christ 1 Joh. 5. 3. For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments so again Joh. 14. 15. If ye love me keep my commandments See the 21. and 23. ver 7. In our obedience to him he doth manifest these things to us that we have right to the tree of life Rev. 22. 14. Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the City that is in the obedience he shall have the manifestation of that 2 Pet. 1. 11. For so an entrance shall be administred unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ And so he is manifested to be the Author of salvation to all them that obey him Heb. 5. 9. Behold obedience to God is the way of conveyance to us so it is a lively evidence to others that we are the Lords Joh. 13. 35. By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples because our faith which is the evidence of things not seen to us is proved to others to be true by its works Jam. 2. 18. Behold here is the Lords going downward from the causes to the effects now we must go upward from the effects to the causes 1. God shews us what is our duty and puts us upon doing it and for the doing of it those that behold it and hear of us judge us to be true Christians 2. In the doing of it God manifests himself more and more to our souls in the keeping of his appointments there is great reward for so an entrance is administred to us abundantly 2 Pet. 1. 11. 3. The cause of our obedience is our love to God If ye love me keep my commandments 4. The cause of our love was our seeing that God did love us first 1 Joh. 4. 10 19. 5. The cause of our faith in Christ is the preaching of the Gospel Rom. 10. 17. 6. The cause of the preaching the Gospel to us was Christs dying for us 7. The cause of Christs dying for us was Gods great love of pitty to us-wards even when we were dead in trespasses and sins Ephes 2. 4. So then Gods love was the cause of sending his son o deye for our sins Christs dying and rising again is the cause of the Gospe●s being preached The preaching of the Gospel is the cause of our believing Our believing is the cause of our justification from sin the knowing of our selves free from sin by the blood of Christ is the cause of our love to Christ our love to Christ is the cause of our obeying of him and in onr obedience is the manifestation more and more conveyed to us So by our obedience others have some evidence of our faith in Christ Mans life is or should be guided by these vertues 1. FAith whereby we believe in and lay hold on God for something promised 2. Hope and that is either for pardoning mercy or for glory 3. Charity whereby we love God as the only good and his people and our enemies in obedience to his command 4. Prudence 1. In our hearts to guide our thoughts 2. In our mouths to order our speeches 3. It should be in our words to grace or adorn our actions 4. In the intelligence to understand things present 5. Prudence to guess at things to come 6. Prudence to recal matters past 5. Temperance which moderates our desires and brings the Appetite under a rule of reason that it may not exceed the rule of moderation 6. Perseverance which continueth in doing and suffering valiantly 7. Justice which giveth every man his due without self-love fear or ranckor it binds us to give due to God to our parents and kindred verity and equity in all that we do in order to our duty herein 1. Sense perceiveth 2. Imagination representeth 3. Understanding formeth 4. Wit deviseth 5. Reason judgeth 6. Memory preserveth 7. Intelligence apprehendeth 8. Contemplation in the prosecution perfecteth Several Divine Sentences First of Christ HE that was the Son of of God became the son of man that we who were the sons of men might become the sons of God He was made sin for us that knew no sin that we might be made the right●ousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5. 21. The more vile Christ made himself for us the more dear he ought to be unto us therefore let us beware of Christ-dishonouring and soul-undoing opinions All good things are in Christ eminently perfectly and eternally Faith in the blood of Christ the witness of the Spirit of Christ a sense of feeling and the love of Christ and the hope of reigning with Christ are the only things to be desired Christ is as well the fountain of common gifts as of saving grace A true Christian cannot find fulness in the creature nor sweetness in sin nor life in any Ordinance without Christ he will weep over other mens weaknesses and rejoyce at their graces We must lean more upon Christ and less upon our own strength lest with Peter we rest upon some old strength and fall before a new temptation Christ can heal a soul speedily perfectly freely and eternally Oh that Christ should shed his blood for those sins that we never shed one tear for A true Christian doth labour for unity in the Church as well as purity he loves to see Christs coat without rent as well as without spot Phil. 3. 15. Christ did admit his spouse into the garden sweetly though she kept him out of her house sluggishly What a poor soul doth for Christ sincerely that our precious Saviour takes sweetly though it be done ill he doth accept it well Nay though we carry our selves in our choicest performances very weakly yet he doth carry himself towards us very sweetly and doth accept of that which we do kindly although done in much infirmity let us enter into his service and we shall soon experience his sweetness Christ doth weigh the heart of the giver more then the value of the gift and delights to see his people give cheerfully though they cannot give bountifully Let us give over measuring his mercy by the narrow scantling of our dark understandings though difficulties may arise and Christians hearts may fail yet the work of Christ shall go on c. Of affliction for sin in Sentences GOD is as severe in punishing as he is gracious in pardoning his house of correction is his School of instruction God had one Son without corruption but no Son without correction he had one Son without Sin but no Son without Sorrow A Soul may be dearly beloved although soarly afflicted sin and punishment are linked together if thou wilt be sinful thou must be miserable Oh what is the state of a man

Wherein stands the difference between the old and new administration of this Covenant of grace Answer 1. One more burthensome another more easie 2. In regard of the extent of the dispensation the one to the Jews only the other to all Nations 1. The Covenant in the former dispensation was more burthensome as will appear by these things 1. The burthen of their costly sacrifices sutable to the quality of the person and nature of the sin 2. They had long and tedious journeys to Jerusalem thrice a year Deut. 16. 16. 3. They were restrained from many liberties which we now enjoy we are allowed many creatures for meat which they might not eat as the Hare Swine c. Differences of meats is now taken away 4. They were tyed to the observation of many daies new moons and ceremonies which we are freed from 2. The second difference is in regard of the extent of it in the old dispensation the Covenant of grace pertained to the Jews only Rom. 9. 4. Rom. 3. 2 c. but now under the Gospel-dispensation this Covenant extends to all Nations or at least some of all Nations whosoever will saith the Scripture let him come and take of the water of life freely Rev. 22. 17. Isa 55. 1 2. The sixth thing to be enquired into is whether this Covenant may not be broken as the first Covenant of works was 1. AS this Covenant was not made with us but with Christ for us so it cannot be broken by us and as it was not made for our good works so it cannot be disanulled by our sins because the Lord hath founded it upon his own immutable word and promise which he hath confirmed by an oath hence it is called an everlasting Covenant because his everlasting love caused him to make it and because it ceaseth not when we are in glory for our continuance in glory is promised in this Covenant 2. This Covenant cannot be broken because the righteousness upon which it is founded is an everlasting righteousness and everlasting pardon Heb. 8. 12. And everlasting kindness and everlasting mercy and everlasting joy and everlasting consolation 2 Tim. 2. 16 17. Isa 35. 10. Psal 100. 5. Dan. 9. 24. Jer. 31. 3. 3. This Covenant cannot be broken because he that made it is an everlasting God the motives that did move him to make it was everlasting love and the Righteousness upon which it is grounded is as is said before everlasting yea all the legacies and blessings thereof are everlasting to have and to hold salvation by Christ our head is more secure and lasting then in our own keeping God will no more trust us with our selves nor with our righteousness by which we shall stand before him For if when we were truly good and had no corruption nor sin in us we did then fall much more should we do so now were not Christ our undertaker he will keep it for us and us for it so that now the promises of righteousness life and salvation are sure to all the seed of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 3 4 5. 2 Cor. 12. 9. Rom. 4. 16. 4. This Covenant cannot be broken because the Lord hath sworn it shall not Isa 54. 9 10. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee for the mountains shall depart and the hils be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the Covenant of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee Object Do we not read in Scripture that the Lord will break Covenant with the people that break Covenant with him viz. Ezek. 16. 59. Zach. 11. 10. Isa 24. 5. Answ 1. Consider that as this Covenant was not at first made with us so it cannot at last be broken by us and as it was not made for our good works so it cannot be disanulled for our sins and for answer to the three places of Scripture in this objection alleadged let us consider them with an unbiassed judgement the first Scriptures is that in Ezek. 16. 59. For thus saith the Lord God I will even deal with thee as thou hast done which hast despised the oath in breaking the Covenant Now compare these words with 60. and 62. verses and you will find that although man doth break the Covenant on his part yet God will not break Covenant on his part nevertheless saith the Lord I will remember my Covenant with thee and establish my Covenant with thee saith the Lord. The next Scripture is that in Zach. 11. 10. And I took my staff even beauty and cut it asunder that I might break my Covenant which I had made with all the people For answer unto this consider the people oftentimes broke it on their part as doth appear Lev. 26. 44. Deut. 31. 16 20. Judg. 2. 20. Jer. 11. 10. 31. 32. But for all that God never did nor would break it on his part totally see Judg. 2. 1. Psal 89. 34. Jer. 33. 20 21. Exek 16. 60 62. And this Covenant here doth relate more immediately to that peace which he hath granted to his Church that she should be no more assaulted nor molested by any strange Nation c. and so for that place Isa 24. 5. the Covenant was broken but on the peoples part as appears by the express words of the text What shall I say more the old Covenant was for to last but for a time till the time of reformation Heb. 9. 4. but the new Covenant is to last for ever this makes much against that dangerous opinion of those that slight and neglect the ordinances of the Gospel under a pretence of setting up Christs Kingdom The seventh thing to be enquired into is what means should one make use of to get into this Covenant of Grace THE safest and speediest way to get into this Covenant is to rest upon Christ alone and to fetch the comfort of our justification from his perfect obedience only we may not put our selves or others upon the evidencing of our justification by our election nor our election by our justification but both justification and election by a stedfast reliance upon Gods free grace and love held forth in absolute promises 1. The first means Let a man get up and keep up a holy fear of God upon his heart and then thou comest under the promise Psal 25. 14. The secrets of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his Covenant 2. Consider what a pickle poor man was in even as bad as thy self when God did first enter into Covenant with him or when God did manifest himself to be in Covenant with him see Ezek. 16. from verse 2. to the 11. Luk. 10. 30 33 34. It is an apparent truth unto all experienced Christians that when God first enters into Covenant with men he finds them in their blood and in

in Christ that binds the strong man hand and foot it is only Faith in Christ that makes a man triumph over sin Satan hell and the world And that stops the issue of blood that makes a man strong in resisting and happy in conquering so that sin alwayes dies most where faith lives most so that we must get up Gospel principles if we would keep up Gospel practices Quere We read in the Bible of many over head and ears in sin and yet at last became great Saints I pray how came those to mortifie their sin Answ We read of their misery and also of their recovery in many Scriptures I will instance in one that speaks the sum of all the rest as to the way how to mortifie sin Tit. 3. 4 5. For we our selves sometimes were foolish disobedient deceived and serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another there is the mysterie but after that the kindness and love of God appeared not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us there is the remedy in a word the consideration of the love and grace of God the Father and the love of God the Son the promises of God and the presence of Christ the example of the Saints and the recompence of reward held forth to us in the Gospel makes a sound Christian to hold on and to hold out resolving to conquer or to dye conquering As a Christian grows up in the assurance of Gods love so he will better heal his strong lusts an heart softned and reconciled to God willingly closeth with the commandment so that the best way to mortifie sin and to amend our lives is to lay hold on the love of God by faith in Christ and so first to get assurance of forgiveness which softens the heart and enlightens the eyes to see that it is only the blood of Christ that purgeth from dead works A man by his own strength cannot prevail against a lust that is to be done only by the blood of Christ into which we are baptized Rom. 6. 3. He that hath the strongest faith hath ever the holiest heart and life sanctification ariseth from justification the Scripture saith Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure in this evidence of self-purifying note these three things First the act performed purifieth Secondly the object about which this act is to be exercised themselves that is their whole man soul and body from all filthiness of flesh and spirit Thirdly the rule or Pattern of this act he purifieth himself as God is pure this is not a word of equality but of resemblance Fourthly the ground or motive inciting to this purifying viz. hope of glory every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure 1 John 3. 2 3. Hope in Christ excites to purity because it conducts us straight to Christ the perfect pattern of all purity Surely it is the appearance of Gods grace to us which works a hope of glory in us and this hope of glory doth purifie these several ensuing waies 1. It puts us upon and helps us in a frequent washing our selves in the fountain opened for sin and uncleaness viz. in the purifying blood of Christ by Faith and hope as instruments applying Christ crucified Zach. 13. 1. Heb 9. 14. Psal 51. 7. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood c. Rom. 3. 25. 2. This works us up to true endeavours in the use of all means to purifie both soul and body person and conversation from all corruption universally both in kind and degree let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness both of flesh and Spirit 2 Cor. 7. 1. Now hypocrites wash the outside of the platter or cup but inwardly they are full of extortion and excess Mat. 23. 25 26. 3. This grace of God and hope of glory puts the soul upon maintaining a constant spiritual combate by faith and hope and other graces of the Spirit against the flesh Rom. 8. 13. And so by the Spirit mortifies the deeds of the flesh daily crucifying the flesh with the affections and lusts Galat. 5. 17 24 25. and this grace of hope as an inward principle works out pollution and corruption as being repugnant thereunto 4. This hope of glory leads the soul to a diligent improvement of the word of God for self-purifying the word hath in it a purifying Faculty John 15. 3. Ye are clean through the word that I have spoken unto you the word purifies these waies 1. As a lamp discovering the spot Rom. 7. 7. 2. As a star conducting to Christ the fountain of purifying 1 John 2. 1 2. Zach. 13. 1. 3. As a rule according to which we are heedfully to order our conversation Psal 119. 9. 4. As a motive to self-purifying 2 Cor. 7. 1. 5. As an antidote against sin Psal 119. 11. thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee Sin in the best Saint and most times in the best actions of Saints 1. THE fairest day hath his clouds and the finest linneng hath its spots the richest jewels their flaws and the sweetest fruit their worms so hath the most precious Christians their failings Davids heart was more often out of tune then his harp 2. Consider what complaints and cryings out there were amongst the most precious Saints being sensible of their sins Rom. 7. 24. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me said Paul Jer 3. 25. We lie down in our shame for we have sinned against the Lord our God both we and our fathers from our youth Gen. 6. 5. God saw that the wickedness of mans heart was great and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually And for the Saints themselves here in all duties there is imperfection something polluted and something defective our most spiritual duties are not wound up to command they are all tainted with disproportion to rule and not only so but our choicest services are be Leoparded with many spots We whilst in this body can stay no more from sinning then the heart from panting and the pulse from beating The Angels are impure in his sight how much more the best of our actions in many things we offend all either offend and fail in the matter or in the ground or in the form or in the end Now our not acting from a pure principle by a pure rule to a pure end or our comming short in any of these may mar the whole action no action is said to be done according to rule in a Gospel administration unless it be attended with these five things 1. All righteous acts must and ought to be done spiritually and heartily with heart and spirit Prov. 23. 26. John 4. 24. 1 Cor. 6. 20. 2. Sincerely as in the sight of God Gen. 17. 1. Psalm 18. 22.

take in their company we are often in the company of those that we take no delight in Now do we indeed delight in the society of the Saints then we love them Psalm 16. 3 c. In a word such things as we love we keep with care possess with joy and loose with grief so much of the inward tryals of our love to the Saints Next of the external tryals of this love by which we may know that others do love us and by which they may know that we love them But these evidences are not so infallible as the other we read John 13. 35. By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye have love one to another and how doth our love unto another appear but in these or the like things viz. 1. He that doth love his brother will be apt to reprove him when he doth ill and praise him when he doth well a friend can bear a sharp reproof from a friend c. 2. Another evidence of love is this we acquaint those whom we love with our miseries lay open our griefs and account it some ease to discharge some of our sorrows into their bosoms their advice we ask and from them we look for assistance 2 Cor. 8. 3. 3. Where love is in the heart it will appear in the tongue 1 Cor. 13. Love is kind but there is a great deal of verbal and complementary love with men forbidden in the Scriptures of truth saying love not in word and tongue but in deed and in truth 4. Another Character of love is this when thou hast some injuries offered thee thou wilt not soon be angry 1 Cor. 13. 4. love suffereth long 5. Where there is love unto another there will be endeavours to do good unto another not only to the body but also to the soul they will be apt to say as the woman of Samaria did to her neighbours when she had found Christ her self she cals them to him John 4. 29. Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did is not this the Christ Or as David Psal 66. 16. I will tell you what God hath done for my soul Of the means of attaining a true love to the brethren 1. COnsider the Lord loves them and ●ath received them then say to thy self shall I hate and reject those that he loves and receives how unlike shall be to God 2. Consider that the Lord commands thee to love them and it is thy duty so to do and wilt thou rebel against God in not doing thy duty but the quite contrary 3. Consider they be members of the same body children of the same Father heirs of the same promises as thou art Consider I say thy relation to them 1 Cor. 12. 27. For relation is the ground of affection 4. Labour daily to have a higher esteem of all the Saints and a lower esteem of thy self so by degrees shalt thou come to love them indeed Phil. 2. 3. Let nothing be done through strife and vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better then themselves 5. Eye the work of God in them the Image of Christ in them and the gifts and graces of his Spirit adorning them and then thou wilt quickly love them and that with a pure heart fervently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Of the impediments and hinderances of love 1. THe first impediment that doth hinder love which we should do well to beware of is this beware of persecuting them either with tongue hand or pen Acts 9. 4. Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Zach. 2. 8. He that toucheth them toucheth the Apple of mine eye saith the Lord. 2. Beware of pride Prov. 13. 10. Only by pride cometh contention 3. Beware of offending them Mat. 18. 6. 4. Beware of giving credit to evil reports for many times it is a lye also take heed of evil surmisings and groundless jealousies and all other things that makes head against love E●hes 4. 31. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Of the grace of hope the nature of it and the properties of it and encouragements to it and Characters of it IF any ask why I write of hope after love I answer because I find it so set down in the Scriptures written for our learning 1 Thes 5. 8. But let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breast-plate of Faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation Now first the nature of this hope may be thus That hope of the Gospel is a grace of God whereby we expect good to come patiently waiting till it come Rom. 8. 25. But if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it Look what the brest is to the child and the oyl to the lamp such is hope to the soul it lives upon the promises and every degree of hope brings a degree of joy into the soul Heb. 6. 18. It is built upon the truth and faithfulness of God 2 Tim. 2. 13. Or the hope of a Christian is built upon the love of Christ the blood of Christ the righteousness of Christ the satisfaction of Christ and the intercession of Christ and the free grace of God 1 Peter 1. 13. And upon the infinite power of God Rom. 4. 21. In a word true hope doth consist in Gods love in adoption and the truth of his promises and the power of performance 2 Tim. 1. 12. I know in whom I have believed and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him c. Or hope is that vertue whereby we expect all good things from God and so patiently attend in the use of his appointed means for all things that we need Psal 22. 4 5. and 37. 7. and that not only when we have the means but also when we want all apparent means as the Israelites did in the Desart c. Or true hope is a well grounded and patient expectation of the accomplishment of all those spirituall and eternal good things which God hath promised through Jesus Christ to all that believe and expect them Of the Properties of this hope 1. FIrst this hope as an inward principle works out pollution and corruption as being repugnant thereunto 1 John 3. 3. And every one that hath this hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure 2. Hope is alwaies more or less exercised about heavenly things viz. Sometimes it is exercised about the righteousness of Christ sometimes it is exercised about the love of God the Father in giving Christ sometimes hope is exercised about the word and promises Psal 119. 49 81 114. and Psa 130. 5. In thy word do I hope Hope in the promises will keep the head from aking and the heart from sinking in a word the promises are the ladder by which hope gets up to heaven and so hope in the

Creator the Gospel commandeth us to worship him in Christ as our Saviour the Law like Pharaoh requires brick but allows no straw the Gospel both allows strength and supplies Rom. 10. 5 6 8. But yet as the Law saveth us not without the Gospel so the Gospel saveth us not without the Law which directeth us in our duty both to God and man Deut. 5. 32. At the giving of the Law the mountain burned the trumpet sounded the people fled and Moses trembled and all this to teach us that we should be very careful to perform obedience to the same Object What was the Ceremonial Law Answ It was that which did prescribe orders for direction in rites of outward worship only shadowing the grace of the Gospel Heb. 10. 1. But the substance of this Law being come those shadows are utterly abolished by the death of Christ and therefore the use of them now would be a kind of denyal of his death Quest What was the Judicial Law Answ That wherein God appointed a form of civil government of the Common-wealth Now this Law is not utterly revoked and abolished by Christ for he came not to over-turn any good government Quest What is the Moral Law Answ That which commandeth perfection of godliness and righteousness and directeth us in our duties both to God and man Deut. 5. 32 12. 32. Quest Are not we delivered from this Law by the means of Christ Answ From the burden of the Law exacting in our own persons perfect obedience and from the curse of the Law due unto disobedience we are delivered by Christ Gal. 3. 10 11 12 13. but from the commandment as a rule of life we are not freed Jam. 2. 8. For the Law doth lay a charge upon all the powers of the soul viz. First it doth charge the understanding to know every duty even all the will of God it chargeth the judgement to discern between good and evil it chargeth the memory to retain it it chargeth the will to chuse the better and to leave the worse it chargeth the affections to love those things that are lovely and to hate things that are uncomely Of the ten Commandments THe ten Commandments are divided into two tables Deut. 4. 13. and 10. 1 4. Which Chirst called the two great Commandments Mat. 22. The four first do contain our duty to God and the six latter our duty to man The first commandment is Thou shalt have no other Gods before me This commandment directs us to the choice of the true God and the entertaining him in all our thoughts in which there are nine things enjoyned and three things prohibited or forbidden 1. Knowledge Joh. 17. 3. 2. Remembrance Eccles 12. 1. 3. Love Deut. 6. 5. 4. Trust Prov. 3. 5. 5. Hope Psal 146. 5. 6. Fear Isa 51. 12 13. 7. Humility Mich. 6. 8. 8. Patience Lam. 3. 39. 9. Obedience 1 John 5. 3. Things prohibited or forbidden in this first commandment 1. Atheism Heb. 11. 6. 2. Heresie Tit. 3. 10 11. 3. Apostacy Heb. 10. 26. The second Commandment Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them Exod. 20. 4 5. This second commandment layes before us the solemn worship that is to be performed unto God without images and ceremonies This second commandment doth prohibit seven things and enjoyn six things four ordinary two extraordinary The things prohibited or forbidden are these seven 1. Idolatry Psal 97. 7. 2. Will-worship Col. 2. 23. 3. Superstition Act. 17. 22 4. Traditions Col. 2. 8. 5. Schism 1 Cor. 11. 18. 6. Witch-craft Exod. 22. 18. 7. Confusion 1 Cor. 11. 21. Things commanded and enjoyned in this second commandment are first ordinary secondly extraordinary First ordinary Extraordinary 1. Prayer 1 Thes 5. 17. 2. Preaching Mal. 2. 7. 3. Seals or Sacraments 4. Discipline Mat. 18. 17. 5. Fasting Lev. 23. 19. 6. Feasting and thanksgiving Ester 9. 22. The third Commandment is this Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain Exodus 20. 7. This third commandment doth inform us how we should glorifie God aright in the actions of our common life without swearing or blaspheming This third commandment doth prohibit four things and enjoyn five things The things forbidden or prohibited are 1. Oaths Jer. 4. 2. 2. Vows Numb 30. 2 3. Lots Prov. 16. 33. 4. All unreverent and unholy use of his name and prophaning of his titles properties actions and Ordinances either by mouth or action Lev. 21. 32. Mal. 1. 6 12. Things commanded or enjoyned in the third commandment in the sanctifying of God 1. His names Deut 28. 15. 2. Attributes 1 Pet. 3. 15. 3. Word Psal 50. 16 17. 4. Works Psal 58. 10 11. 5. Religion Ephes 4. 1. The fourth Commandment is this Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. This fourth commandment doth inform us of a certain day set apart for Gods service as the Sabbath or Lords day This fourth commandment doth prohibit certain things and enjoyn many other things Things prohibited 1. The making of it a common day Neh. 13. 15 2. Vain speech about wordly things Isa 581. 3. 3. Idleness feasting pastimes Exod. 32. 6. 4. The doing that on the Lords day which is no day lawful Mar. 3. 4. Ezek. 23. 37 38. 5. The imploying others in worldly business Things commanded or enjoyned to be done on that day 1. Hearing and reading the word Luk. 4. 16 22. Act. 13. 14 15. 2. Prayer and singing of Psalms 3. Visiting and relieving the sick 4. Examining our selves and those that belong to us 5. Catechising our families The fifth Commandment runs thus Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be l●ng in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Exod. 20. 12. This commandment layes before us the duties we owe one to another in regard of our particular relation unto such as are our superiors inferiors and equals In a word the fifth commandment presents us with the duty of 1. Magistrates 1 Tim. 2. 2. 2. Ministers 1 Pet. 5. 2. 3. Parents Eph●s 6. 4. 4. Masters Col. 4. 1. 5. Husbands Ephes 5. 25. 6. Noble and rich 1 Tim. 6. 17. 7. Aged Tit. 2. 2 4. 8. Subjects Rom. 13. 1. 9. People Heb. 13 17. 10. Children Ephes 6. 1. 11. Servants 1 Pet. 2. 18. 12. Wife Ephes 5. 24 33. 13. Poor 1 Sam. 25. 8. 14. Young Lev. 19. 32. The sixth Commandment runs thus Thou shalt not murder Exod 20. 13. This commandment layes before us our duty in the preservation of mens persons and living in peace and meekness In this commandment there are five things forbidden and four things enjoyned The things forbidden are these and such like 1. Unjust anger

Mat. 5. 22. 2. Hatred 1 Joh. 3. 15. 3. Inward desire of revenge Rom. 12. 19. 4. Reviling and back-biting Psal 15. 3. 5. Immoderate worldly sorrow 2 Cor. 7. 10. Things enjoyned or commanded 1. Friendship Prov 27. 9. 2. Mercy and good works Gal 6. 10. 3. Meekness Ephes 4. 32. 4. Overcoming evil with good Rom. 12. 21. The seventh Commandment is this Thou shalt not commit adultery Exod. 20. 14. This commandment presents us with the preservation of chastity temperance and marriage In this commandment there are eight things forbidden and seven things enjoyned The things forbidden are these and such like 1. Wanton gestures or behaviour Prov. 6. 13. and 7. 10. 2. Wanton looks Job 31. 1. 3. Wanton speeches Ephes 4. 29. and 5. 3 4. 1 Cor. 15. 33. 4. Uncleaness 1 Cor. 6. 9. 5. Fornication 1 Cor. 6. 9. 6. Adultery Heb. 13. 4. 7. Intemperance 1 Pet. 4. 3. 8. Bad company 1 Cor. 5. 9. Things enjoyned in this commandment 1. Marriage 1 Cor. 7. 2 9. 2. Care to keep a good conscience Eccles 7. 28. 3. Labour in our vocation 4. Watchfulness over our own hearts Mal. 2. 16. 5. A Covenant with our eyes Job 31. 1. 6. Prayer Psal 119. 37. 7. Holy meditation c. The eighth Commandment is this Thou shalt not steal Exod. 20. 15. This commandment enjoyns us to have a care and endeavour the preservation of our own and our neigbours good and therein of the maintaining of justice in our dealing one with another In this eighth commandment there are seven things prohibited and five things enjoyned The things forbidden follow 1. Theft Lev. 19. 13. 2. Oppression Prov 14. 31. 3. Deceit 1 Thes 4. 6. 4. Sacriledge Prov. 20. 25. 5. Usury Deut. 23. 20. 6. Bribery Prov. 29. 4. 7. Prodigality Luk. 15. 13. Things enjoyned in this commandment 1. Just dealing Lev. 25. 14. 2. Diligence in our calling Ephes 4. 28. 3. Liberality Prov. 11. 25. 4. Hospitality 1 Pet. 4. 9. 5. Restitution Exod. 22. 5. Lev. 6. 4 5. The ninth Commandment is as followeth Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Exod. 20 16. This commandment enjoyns us with the preservation of our own and our neighbours good name and the maintaining of truth in our testimony This ninth commandment doth prohibit seven things and enjoyn five things Things prohibited in this commandment 1. Slandering Prov. 15. 24. 2. Credulity Psal 15. 3. 3. Hearing tale-bearers Prov. 25. 23. 4. Censuring Mat. 7. 1. 5. Sinister suspitions 1 Cor. 13. 5. 6. Flattery Prov. 27. 14. 7. Silence in defending 2 Tim. 4. 16. Things enjoyned in this commandment 1. A care of our own names Phil. 4. 8. 2. A care of the names of others Mat. 1. 19. 3. A care of our speeches that they be to Gods glory Ephes 5. 4. 4. That they be profitable to the good of others Col. 4. 6. 5. And lastly that our speeches be both true and charitable for these two must inseparably go together for charity rejoyceth in truth 1 Cor. 13. 6. And the truth must be spoken in love Ephes 4. 15. For truth without love savoureth of malice and charity without truth is false vain and foolish because God is true and the Author of truth and the Devil a lyar and the father of lyes and as truth makes us like unto God so lyes make us like unt the Devil The tenth Commandment is as follow e●h Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife Exod. 20. 17. This tenth and last commandment doth prohibit 1. Covetousness Heb. 13. 5. 2. self-Self-love 2 Tim. 3. 2. 1 Cor. 10. 24. 3. Evil thoughts Prov. 24. 9. 4. Envy Prov. 23. 4. This commandment doth enjoyn 1. A pure heart 1 Tim. 1. 5. 2. Watchfulness over our thoughts Prov. 4. 23. 3. Contentedness Phil. 4. 11. 4. Coveting after spiritual things 1 Cor. 12. 31. Now in the strictest sense it is impossible that any man should keep these commandments in thought word and deed from such a principle and to such an end as it ought to be kept but this may serve First to humble us in the sight and sense of our sins which have made us subject to the wrath of God and the curse of the Law that so we may be driven out of our selves and with hast flie unto the mercies of God in the satisfaction of Jesus Christ Of the Lords prayer and the several petitions therein contained THere are in the Lords prayer six petitions the three first do concern Gods glory and the three latter do concern our necessity divided as it were into two tables whereof three do concern God as doth the first table of the Law and three do concern our selves and our neighbours as doth the Second table so that by the very order of the petitions we may learn this that we ought to think upon Gods glory before any thing that belongs to us John 12. 27 28. The six petitions are as followeth 1. Hallowed be thy name Mat. 6. 9. Luke 11. 12. 2. Thy kingdom come Mat. 6. 0. Luke 11. 2. 3. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Mat. 6. 10. Luke 11. 2. 4. Give us this day our daily bread Mat. 6. 11. Luke 11. 3. 5. Forgive us our debts as we forgive them that are debtors to us Mat. 6. 12. Luke 11. 4. 6. And leads us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Mat. 6. 13. Luke 11. 4. 1. Of the first Hallowed be thy name 1. By the name of God we are to understand God himself 1 Kings 5. 5. Isa 26. 8. His titles as Jehovah Eloim the Lord of Host and such like and then his attributes and properties as wisdom power love goodness justice mercy truth Exod. 33. 18 19. 34. 5 6. We are said to hallow his name when we acknowledge it and honour it Psal 96. 7 8. Thereby as it were setting the crown of holiness and honour upon the head of God 2. In the next petition Thy kingdom come In this petition we pray that God may reign in our hearts that the kingdom of sin and Satan being more and more abolished Act. 26. 18. Col. 1. 3 Christ may now reign in our hearts by grace Col. 3. 15 16. and we with him for ever in glory 2 Tim. 2. 5. 12. 3. In the next petition Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Hereby we exclude all wills opposed to the will of God as our own will and all wills of evil men or wicked Angels may be dissappointed and so we desire grace that we may obey his will and not the lust of the flesh and the will of man 4. In the next petition we pray Give us this day our daily bread In this petition we beg that God would provide for us competent maintenance or such a proportion of outward means as he shall see meet for us Prov. 30. 8. and that he would give us grace to

love thereof they willingly parted with much of their earthly goods and possessions to lay up treasure in heaven Abraham and Sarah left their own country and possessions to look for a City whose maker and builder is God Heb. 11. 10 15 16. David preferreth one day in this place before a thousand elsewhere Psal 84. 10. Elias earnestly besought the Lord to receive his soul into his Kingdom and went willingly though in a fiery Chariot King 19. 4. Saint Paul having once seen heaven continually desi●eth to be dissolved that he might be with Christ Phil. 1. 23. Saint Peter having espyed but a glimpse of eternal glory in the mount wished that he might dwel there all the dayes of his life Mat. 17. 4. saying Master it is good for us to be here c. Christ a little before his death prayeth his Father to receive him into that excellent glory Joh. 17. 5. And the Apostle witnesseth Heb. 11. 2. that for the joy which was set before them they endured the cross and despised the shame 1 Pet. 5. 4. and when the chief Shepheard shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away c. this eternal condition admits of no change or alteration decay or consumption waste or diminution mans eternal condition admits of no comparison revocation or conclusion c. What use we may make of all these precious things 1. EXcellent arguments may be drawn to pres-Christians to a holy life 2 Pet. 3. 11. see ing then that all these things must be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness and ver 14. Wherefore seeing ye look for such things give diligence that ye may be found in him in peace It is our duty to live in a continual expectation of the coming of the Lord Jesus with our loins girt and our lamps burning for blessed is that servant whom his master when he cometh shall find so doing 2. Consider that here is a fountain opened for Christian comfort and ground for patience in all troubles that there shall be an end a Christians hope shall not be cut off if in this life only we had hope we were of all men most miserable 1 Cor. 15. 19. But here lyes the comfort and patience of true Christians theywait for another world and they know it is a just thing with God to give them rest after their labours 2 Thes 1. 9. and a crown after their combate 2 Tim. 4. 8. and after their long Pilgrimage an everlasting habitation 2 Cor. 5. 1. Be patient saith the Apostle and settle your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh James 5. 8. 2 Pet. 2. 9. When they that have sown in tear shall reap in joy Psal 126. 5. 3. Consider that assurance of that blessed state may be attained in this life we know faith Paul 2 Cor. 5. 1. That if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed we have a building not made with hands eternal in the heavens these things saith John I have written unto you that ye may know that ye have eternal life 1 John 5. 13. I am sure saith Job 19. 25 26 27. that my Redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet shall I see God in my flesh whom I my self shall see and mine eyes shall behold when I awake saith David I shall be satisfied with thy Image Psal 17. 15. 4. The consideration of this should provoke us to be such as may be made meet for this inheritance of the Saints in light and to endeavour to attain and retain the earnest of the Spirit whence we may be alwaies able to say we are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 8. and to fill the soul with strong consolation against the sufferings of life and the fear of death and to work an answerable conversation that whether absent or present we may so walk as we may be accepted of him 5. The consideration of this should put us upon a patient waiting for and a longing expectation of our change which draweth on a pace and not to put that off as most do to the last year and when that is come to the last moneth of that year and then to the last week of that moneth and then to the last day of that week and then to the last hour of that day and then to the last minute of that hour and so time shall be no more and we shall not find repentance although we seek it with tears 6. Consider that the cause of our salvation and so of our glorious condition is Gods meer love and favour without any merit of ours Luke 12. 32. It is our Fathers good pleasure to give us a Kingdom Joh. 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Ephes 2. 8. By grace we are saved through faith and not of our selves it is the gift of God Rom. 6. 23. everlasting life is the gift of God and though eternal life be called a reward yet it is not of merit but of mercy let this be grounded in our hearts that the Kingdom of heaven is not a stipend of servants but an inheritance of Sons which they only obtain that lay hold on his mercy Romans 5. 8. compared with 1 Tim. 6. 12. and 19. 2. Now as hath been said as the love of God is the cause of our salvation fo Jesus Christ is the way Joh. 10. 9. Joh 14. 6. 3 The holy Spirit is the guide in that way as in Joh. 16. 13. 4. The Scriptures of truth is the rule Gal. 6. 16. Isa 8. 20. 5. The evidence of this salvation is faith Heb. 11. 1. It is true the instrumental cause offering and proclaiming salvation is the Gospel but the instrumental receiving and applying it is faith and the cause sealing it inwardly to our souls is the Spirit of God the external and instrumental seals thereof are the two confirming Ordinances Baptism and the Lords Supper 6. The anchor of this salvation is hope Heb. 6. 19. 7. The effects of this salvation is love to God because he loved us first and a holy conversation if ye love me saith Christ keep my commandments and they that have believed in Christ must be careful to maintain good works which are found and required in the way to the Kingdom but they are not the cause of reigning 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