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The trial & triumph of faithThe tryal & triumph of faith
The trial & triumph of faith: or, An exposition of the history of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan Delivered in sermons; in which are opened, the victory of faith; the condition of those that are tempted; the excellency of Jesus Christ and free-grace; and some special grounds and principles of libertinism and antinomian errors, discovered by Samuel Rutherfurd, professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews. Published by authority.The tryal & triumph of faith: or, An exposition of the history of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan Delivered in sermons; in which are opened, the victory of faith; the condition of those that are tempted; the excellency of Jesus Christ and free-grace; and some speciall grounds and principles of libertinisme and antinomian errors, discovered by Samuel Rutherfurd, professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews. Published by authority.
London: printed by John Field, 1652
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hearing of him] What had she heard? that Jesus was the Son of God, 1the Messiah of Israel, and could, and was willing to heal her daughter: two things are here observable, hearing of Christ drew her to Christ: 2. Its good to border with Christ, and to be near hand to him: There is a necessity that we hear of Christ, before we come to him. This is Gods way, Rom. 10. Faith cometh by hearing: Christ is not in us from the womb, Faith is not a flower that groweth out of such a sour and cold ground as nature; its a stem and a birth of heaven: 2. None can come to Christ, except they here a good report of him. How shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? Those who come aright to Christ, must have noble, high, long, ⟨p. 49⟩deep, and broad thoughts of Jesus, 2and know the Gospel. Now what is the Gospel? Nothing but a good report of Christ; you must hear a Gospel-report of Christ, ere you come to him: Ill principled thoughts of Christ keepeth many from him, 1 Kin. 8.42. Strangers shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand. Christ was to be heard by the deaf Gentiles, Is. 29.18. In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book: We hear, and we hear not, because the Lord wakeneth not the ear, morning by morning, that we may hear as the learned: Many hear, but they have not the learned ear, nor the ear of such as have heard and learned of the Father: Many hear of Christ, a voice, and no more but a voice, they know not that Prophecy, Isa. 30.21. Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way walk ye in it: There's another vice in our hearing men do not hear, that they may hear, Isa. 42.18. Hear ye deaf, and behold ye blind, that ye may see: That is, hear that ye may hear, see that ye may see: the Lord giveth Grace, that he may give Grace, and we are to receive Grace, that we may receive Grace: Grace is the only reward of Grace: 3. We hear, and we hear not; we see, but we have no reflect-act upon our seeing: Many open their ears to Christ, but they hear not, they want a spiritual faculty of observing,