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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

am shut out or excepted against 5. Water is copious and plentiful there is no less in the river for thy drinking there is enough for all men So is the blood of Christ it can never be drawn dry of his fulness we may all receive yet he never the more empty John 1. 16. 6. Water is a cleansing and purifying element and it resembles the blood of Christ fitly in that 1 Iohn 1. 7. The blood of Christ cleanseth from us all sin The inward thing signified is many times really exhibited and coveyed and sealed in the use of the outward hence are those expressions in Scripture of being born again of water and of the Holy Ghost Iohn 3. 5. of cleansing by the washing of water Ephes 5. 29. So again arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins Acts 22. 16. so Rom. 6. 3. we are buried with Christ by Baptism Surely the Ordinance of Baptism being rightly administred and rightly received doth effect that which it doth represent We should know that confirming Ordinances Sacraments or seals properly do not give us any right unto God and his Christ and promises but only seal up and confirm that right and interest which already we have in Gods Covenant of Grace God promised to Father Adam life and then he gave him the tree of life to be a pledge of his promise now it was not the tree of life that gave Adam life but God according to his promise Adam might have lived upon God in the promise without the tree for the tree could do him no good without the promise Thus God promised Christ and his benefits to the believing generation and then he gave Baptism to seal these promises So then it is not Baptism that saves us but the promises it is not water that purgeth our sins but the blood of the Covenant what shall I say more where God is pleased to dispense his seals they are great comforts and pledges of his love and where he denieth means and oportunity of enjoying the signs the things signified are never the further off or less effectual Davids child died the seventh day a day before the time appointed for circumcision and yet both his words and his carriage gives us to understand that he doubted not of the salvation of it So the thief upon the cross believing in Christ was received with Christ into Paradise though he were never baptized but he had the inward grace of baptism the washing of the blood of Christ though not the outward sign some have the outward sign and not the inward grace some have the inward grace and not the outward sign when God affordeth means we must wait upon him for a blessing in them and by them as his pipes of conveyance and when he doth not afford means we should not tye the working of his grace to them These things seriously considered may make any man admire why there should be so great contention jarring and wrangling about the time when and the persons to whom and the manner how this Ordinance is to be administred are not the Scriptures as clear in laying down this as they are in confirming the Ordinance it self now the Scripture being the rule we are to look for a precept for what we do otherwise the Lord will say who hath required these things at your hands and in the want of a precept we are to walk by example so saith the Apostle ye ought so to walk as ye have us for an example in the want of a precept and example necessary directions inferences and consequences may be made use of as I might prove at large but beware of drawing any of these against a plain precept and example Now give me leave to present a few of those precepts and examples recorded in the Scripture for the baptizing of a believer and when the reader hath answered these few I shall give him so many more for ought I know 1. For precept consider these three Scriptures Acts 2. 38. Then Peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you c. Acts 10. 48. And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Acts 22. 16. And now why tarriest thou arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins Now here being three precepts for the baptizing of believers can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we Acts 10. 47. 2. For example consider these three examples Mat. 3. 13 14 15. Then cometh Jesus to John to be baptized ver 16. and Jesus when he was baptized went up straight way out of the water and loe the heavens were opened unto him c. Acts 2. 41. Then they that gladly received the word were baptized c. Acts 8. 12. They were baptized both men and women c. Behold here is both precept and example for baptizing of believers and that in the mouth of two or three witnesses and yet shall not every word be established Shew me the like for baptizing of children and I will write a book of recantation and acknowledge my error both to God and man But I am sure thou canst not do it without thou wilt make a new Scripture or grosly pervert this Let the Reader beware at last that he be not found amongst the number of those spoken of Luk. 7. 30. But the Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves being not bapeized That Baptism is an Ordinance of the Gospel and that only believers hath right unto it hath been proved now I shall lay down a few reasons why children ought not to be baptized 1. Because we find no command nor example in the word of God that any Infants were baptized and we are forbidden to presume above what is written and further if we should admit of any one thing in the worship of God which we find no warrant for in the word of God we should be forced by the same reason to admit of many yea of any inventions of men 2. As an ●nfant is uncapable of examining himself and of discerning the Lords body and therefore not admitted to that Ordinance so also he is uncapable of believing and discerning the use and end of this Ordinance for there are many things about which Faith is to be exercised by him that is baptized I will instance in five 1. To exercise Faith in the blood of Christ for the washing away of sins See Acts 2. 38. compared with Acts 22. 16. Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the name of the Lord 2. Special things held forth in this Ordinance that a child is not capable of discerning is the Mystical mortification of sin Rom. 6. 3. Know you not that so many of us that were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death ver 6. knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed c. 3.

Another thing held forth to us in this Ordinance is the rising again unto newness of life Romans 6 4. Therefore we are buried with him by Eaptism verse 5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be raised in the likeness of his resurrection 4. Another thing held forth in this Ordinance is the Baptism of the Spirit Act. 2. 38. compared with Act. 11. 16. 5. Another thing held forth in this blessed Ordinance is the resurrection of the body See Col. 7. 12. Rom. 6. 5 8. I suppose the Reader will grant that a child is not capable of apprehending believing and applying these and the like things held forth in this Ordinance and that God requires that such as are baptized should first believe Mat. 28. 19. Act. 8. 12 13 36 37 38. Mat. 3. 6. Act. 10. 47 48. But because this controversie is handled at large in other treatises such as desire further satisfaction may have recourse to them Now what art thou doing O man that callest me and others Anabaptists for our obedience to God in this blessed Ordinance whilest thou art rejecting his counsel if thou say was not I baptized heretofore I answer if I were baptized with God-fathers and God-mothers Common prayer book Cross and Surpliss and by a Minister made by the Bishops all which are voted down as Antichristian and the manner of that Baptism was also by sprinkling water upon my face concerning which the Scripture is silent how may I be assured God will own such a Baptism for his Ordinance Blame me not then if I endeavour to follow Christ herein who was baptized when he came to years and commands me so to walk as I have him for an example 1 John 2. 6. compared with Mat. 3. 15 16. I shall close up all that I have to say at this time to this Ordinance with two words of advice the one to those that own Baptism according to the Scripture Rule when people are capable of it the other to those that rail mock and deride the people that are baptized calling them Anabaptists 1. You that have taken up this Ordinance beware of laying a greater stress upon it then ever God appointed you viz. it was never appointed to break love and Communion and to quench the Spirit and to justle out some other Ordinances nor to shut out the weak in the Faith nor to put them upon doubtful disputations my brethren let me tell you I have rather chosen to weep it out before the Lord in my closset then to publish to the world what I have heard and seen amongst you what know you not that all Christians are one in Christ and partakers of one Spirit promises graces and have right to all Priviledges what know you not that all Saints are fellow-members fellow-souldiers fellow-travellers co-heirs fellow-sufferers and fellow-Citizens having the same father being cloathed with the same robe ruled by the same word inclined to the same work will you shut out those that God hath received and stop the mouth that God hath opened and refuse communion with those that have fellowship with the Father and the Son and that are faithful to what they know are all blind that doth not see by your eyes 2. You that so exceedingly cry up Baptism of Infants and cry down all baptizing of believers Let me tell you that through prejudice weakness and blindness you cry up that which you have neither precept nor example for in all the book of God and cry down that which there is precept upon precept for and example upon example I even tremble to think what a sad account you will give to God for this one day if you say you can prove the baptism of Infants by necessary Deductions from Scripture and Inferences and Consequences then let me ask you how you durst to make use of any of these to cross plain precepts and examples Of the Lords Supper or breaking of bread another standing Ordinance of the Gospel 1. OF the Lords Supper what it is 2. Wherein Baptism doth differ from it 3. Preparations to the Lords table required 4. The actions of the Administrator of this Ordinance 5. The actions of the receiver and duty in receiving 6. Who they are that may partake of this Ordinance 7. The ends and uses of the Lords Supper 8. The duties to be performed after receiving First of the Lords Supper what it is IT is a sealing or confirming Ordinance of the Gospel wherein by the outward elements of bread and wine sanctified by the word and prayer and exhibited by the Minister and rightly received by the communicant assurance is given to those that are ingrafted into Christ of their continuance in him and relation to him receiving nourishment by him unto eternal life or it is a second confirming Ordinance of the New Testament wherein God by the signs of bread and wine signifieth sealeth and offereth to every faithful receiver the body and blood of Christ for his spiritual nourishment and growth in Christ and so confirmeth him in the Covenant of grace The matter of the Lords Supper is partly outward as bread and wine and partly inward as the body and blood of Christ those outward elements signifying Christ and him crucified with all the benefits of his death passion even whole Christ with all the fruits of his mediation Mat. 26. 26 27. 1 Cor. 11. 24 25. Wherein doth Baptism differ from the Lords Supper seeing they are both confirming Ordinances IN regard of the thing signified Baptism as hath been said is a seal of our entrance into the Church of God the Supper of the Lord is a seal of our continuance in the same the one of our new birth the other of our spiritual growth the former is ordained to this end that being out of Christ by nature we being born again might now be ingrafted into his body Tit. 3. 5. Joh. 3. 5. the latter that being in Christ by grace we might continue and encrease in him 1 Cor. 10. 16. and 11. 23. 1 Pet. 3. 21. The Supper of the Lord is to be received as often as he shall give occasion Baptism but once for there is but one entrance into Christ but many degrees of growth up in him Of the Preparation to the Lords table THere ought to be a careful preparation before the action and great heed in the whole action and a joyfull and thankful close and shutting up of it all which ought to be performed as well by the minister as the people 1. Let there be a due search and tryal of our own souls whether we can find in our selves the things which God doth require in worthy communicants viz. 1. by examining our wisdom and knowledge both of Gods will in general and of the nature and use of this holy ordinance in particular whether we can give a reason of the representation of Christ in the bread and wine and see our need of it and what we may

rely upon his providence for all the means of this temporal life and to rest contented with that allowance which he shall think fit for us Psal 4. 11 12. Yea in this petition we beg health wealth food sleep rayment house c together with all the helps and means to attain them and that he would give us care and conscience to get those needfull things by lawfull means that labouring with our hands the thing that is good we may eat our bread Eph. 4. 28. 2 Thes 3. 12. 5. The fifth petition And forgive us our debts as even we forgive them that are debtors to us In this petition there is a frank and humble confession that we have sinned and stand guilty of original and actual transgressions and that there is no power in us to make satisfaction sor our sins for by the Law as by an obligation every man standeth bound to keep it holy and continually Deut. 27. 26. Gal. 3. 10. James 2. 10. So that the breach thereof even once and in the least point maketh us debtors presently as having forfeited our obligation So that no man can make amends unto God for it considering that whatsoever he doth after the breach is both imperfectly done and if it were perfect yet it is due by obligation of the Law and therefore cannot go for payment no more then a man can pay one debt with another 6. The sixt and last petition And lead us not into temptation but delievers from evil In this petition we pray that not only our sin may be pardoned but also that it may be mortified Rom. 6. 1 2. and that we may be either kept from temptation or preserved by his grace from being hurt thereby 1 Cor. 10. 13. 2 Cor. 12. 9. The effect of temptation without the special grace of God is extreamly evil to wit sin and damnation 1 Tim. 6. 9. Now seeing we cannot be tempted without the will of God Job 1. 10. nor resist without his power 2 Cor. 12. 9. If it be his blessed will that he would not let us fall into the one unless he preserve us in the other and that he would tie up Satan and restrain his malice and power or else make us wise to know and avoid his stratagems Of the World Flesh and Devil the three great enemies of man First of the World TAke the world in all its beauty bravery and glory and you shall find sorrow attend worldly joy danger attend worldly safety and loss attend worldly joy labours and tears attend worldly prosperity Where one thousand are destroyed by the worlds frowns ten thousand are destroyed by the worlds smiles it sings to us and sinks us it kisseth us and betrayeth us Let heaven be a mans object and the world will soon be a mans subject the fashion of this world passeth away why should we set our eyes upon that which is not heaven hath a foundation the earth hath none again worldly light is mixt with darkness Joy with sorrows pleasure with pain honour with dishonour riches with want wine with water honey with gall and our Sugar with wormwood and roses with prickles in a word worldly comforts entertained with great delight are seldom lost without exceeding great Sorrow and grief Of the Riches of this world THE good things of this world are not so absolutely given us but that God retains still a right to it and an interest in it and may demand it how and when he please And usually the worst of men have most of these outward things and the best of men have least of earth and most of heaven A man may be great and graceless with Pharaoh honourable and damnable with Saul rich and miserable with Dives A man may have enough of the world to sink him but he can never have enough of the world to save him A man may as soon fill a bag with wisdom and a chest with vertue or a circle with a tryangle as the heart of man with any thing here below therefore it is better to be gracious then great inwardly holy then outwardly happy the riches of this world although well gotten are but like the manna those that gathered less had no lack and those that gathered more had little or none to spare the consideration of this raysed up the spirits of those Saints Heb. 11. to triumph upon all the beauty bravery and glory of the world they having acquaintance with and an interest in a better and more durable riches these are uncertain riches For one storm at Sea one coal of fire one false friend or one unavised word may make a rich man a beggar and a prisoner altogether Oh how do riches hinder the actings of Faith upon God how do they interrupt our sweet communion with God how doth it abate our love to the people of God and cool our love to the things of God oh the deadness dulness and the barrenness that attend men having large possessions in this world and when they fall sick a crown of Gold cannot cure the head ach nor a velvet slipper the gout nor a chain of gold about the neck cannot take away the pain of the teeth Many times he that we account the richest man is the poorest man in the world VVE account him a poor man that doth want meat for his belly cloaths for his back and money in his purse and a house to put his head in and in this respect every man that is out of Christ although the most richest and honourablest man in the worlds account is but a poor man 1. He is a poor and beggarly man that hath no money in his purse now if your bags be full of gold and silver and your hearts empty of grace you are poor and beggarly in a Scripture account yea you are poor and blind and miserable and naked Rev. 3. 17. 2. He is a poor man that hath no meat to put in his belly but every man that is out of Christ doth not nor cannot feed upon that true manna the bread of life nor drink of that water of life John 6. 55. 3. He is a beggarly man that hath not an house to put his head in this is the case of all those that have no interest in Christ when death cometh they know not what to do nor where to go unless it be into a dungeon of darkness full of devils and damned Spirits Mat. 25. 41. 4. He is a poor man that hath no clothes to put on his back thus every man out of Christ is not only poor but naked too Rev. 3. 17. surely he is the poorest man in the world for he wanteth an interest in God Christ the Spirit and promises he wanteth peace with God and peace in conscience he wanteth acceptation and reconciliation he wanteth righteousness Justification and adoption and redemption he wanteth the pardon of sin and power against sin and freedom from the reign of sin he wanteth those riches that perish

when we die indeed it is but a compleating of what we have been doing all our life the best mens lives are as glass bright and brittle and evermore in danger of breaking Jer. 22. 29. Oh earth earth earth hear the voice of the Lord And why doth he mention earth three times 1. Because we came from the earth 2. Because at the best we are but earth 3. Because we shall speedily return to the earth as appears by these Scriptures Job 7. 9. the length of our dayes is compared to the vanishing of a cloud and sometimes to the swiftness of aPost Job 9. 25. sometimes to a flower that springs in the morning and withereth before night Job 14. 2 Sometimes to a Weavers shuttle Job 7. 6. What is swifter then a shuttle it flies to and again forward and backward so nights and dayes pass this shuttle of our life forward and backward to and fro the night doth cast this shuttle to the day and the day casts it to the night and the night to the day and so from one to the other forward and backward to and again So that between these two time quickly weaves off the thread of our life the piece comes to be woven and so to be cut off and just so is our life Isaiah 38. 12. I have cut off like a Weaver What shall I say more All the Prophets and Apostles that have written have more or less written of the fewness of our dayes and uncertainty of our lives Abraham said he was but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. All our dayes on the earth is as a shadow and there is no abiding 2 Chro. 29. 15. When a few years are come then shall I go the way whence I shall not return Job 16. 22. We spend our dayes like a tale that is told Psal 70. 9. All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field Isa 4. 6 7. We do all fade as a leaf and our iniquities as wind have taken us away Isa 64. 6. For what is our life it is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away such is the swiftness of mans dayes and shortness of his life and frailty of his nature that the swiftest shortest and frailest things that we read of in Scripture are not swift short and frail enough to compare mans life unto Here I cannot but acquaint the Reader with some things that the Lord made of great use to me many years since in reading some part of the practise of Piety and auother book called Sincere the Convert and another little book called Good news from heaven c. together with what I have learned from the Scriptures and Christians c. and so I shall trace man from his birth to his death and begin First with chose that live and die in a state of nature Secondly we shall lay down and that in few lines the blessed state of those that in their life prepare for death for death hath something to say to every man and would fain be heard but men are not at leisure to hearken to him till he throws them upon their sick beds Of the Condition of man in his birth and infancy By the pangs groans and struglings and the violent travell of his mother the child is produced to the light many miscarrying at their birth by divers accidents the mother and the child perish together but sometimes by Gods providence after the child hath been imprisoned nine moneths in an obscure prison it springs into the world and so as it were cast naked upon the earth all embrued into the blood of filthiness so that the mother is ashamed to let the child know the manner thereof Oh miserable man where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery who art condemned as soon as conceived and adjudged to eternal death before thou wast born to a temporal life a beginning indeed we may find but no end of thy misery and so thou art subject in this life to all kind of slavery and in the life to come to overlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels from which there is no escaping unless thou art born again of water and of the spirit John 3. 3 5. Of mankind in the state of childhood THE two first years of it is nothing but impotency and weak imbecility to himself and charge trouble and vexation to his parents other creatures by the benefit of nature can stand upon their Legs and seek after their food but thou must be swadled in clouts and not able to help thy self the yound chickens as soon as they are hatched can run after their dam to seek for food the lambs calves and yound colts stand suddenly upon their legs to seek their dams teats but man would perish if his mother did not bring the nipple of her brest to his mouth and rock him upon her knees and for the three or four years of his infancy he must be carefully tended for fear he should take hurt left horses carts or coaches run over him c. Of mankind in the state of youth THE greatest part of this time is spent under the restraint of their tutors or masters for youth is as an untamed beast all whose affections are rash and rude not capable of good counsel when it is given delighting in nothing but toyes and babies and vanity and therefore must be kept under the rod and fear of parents and masters as if thou hadst been born to live in slavery rather then at the disposition of thy own will no tired horses were ever more willing to be rid of their burdens then thou art to get out of this state of bondage c. never minding thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12. 1. Except the Lord hedge up thy way thou art running with all speed headlong to Hell Of the state of manhood THE maturiry of mans age begins at thirty and continues till forty five in this state the flesh provokes thee to lust the world allures thee to pleasure and the Devil tempts thee to all kind of sins fears of enemies affright thee suits in Law do vex thee wrongs of ill neighbours do oppress thee cares for wife and children do consume thee sin stings thee within Satan layes snares before thee sins past dogs behind thee in this miserable estate whither wilt thou go for rest and comfort the house is full of cares the Field of toyl the Sea of Pirats the Land of Robbers who can reckon up besides all this the losses crosses griefs disgraces sicknesses and calamities that do attend us the death of near and dear friends and relations one while adversity on the left-hand frets thee another while prosperity on the right-hand flatters thee over thy head Gods judgements due to thy sins are ready to fall upon thee and under thy feet hels mouth is ready to swallow thee up therefore take heed Oh man what thou dost