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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
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Physicians give their three causes of Deafness: 1. When there's a carnosity on the Tympanum auris, 1the drum, this is Extrinsical, the world is another lover, and the care of it, and that hindereth hearing. 2. When the organ of hearing is hurt and distempered, as a lame hand cannot apprehend: now when there be false fancies, & principles contrary to the Gospel in the heart, the ear cannot hear. 3. When there is abundance of humours in the brain, and they raise a noise, and tumult in tympano, in the drum, and hinder sounds to be heard. When Pride, and Principles of Sensuality and vain pleasures make a noise within, that neither Christ knocking, nor his voice without can be heard, men are deaf.
Physicians give their three causes of Deafnesse: 1. When there's a carnosity on the Tympanum auris, 1the drum, this is Extrinsicall, the world is another lover, and the care of it, and that hindereth hearing. 2. When the organ of hearing is hurt and distempered, as a lame hand cannot apprehend: now when there be false fancies, & principles contrary to the Gospel in the heart, the ear cannot hear. 3. When there is abundance of humors in the brain, and they raise a noise, and tumult in tympano, in the drum, and hinder sounds to be heard. When Pride, and Principles of Sensuality and vain pleasures make a noise within, that neither Christ knocking, nor his voice without can be heard, men are deaf.
- 1Three vices in hearing.
But why do we not hear and see Christ revealing himself in his ways and works? Reason would say,1 If Hell and Judgement were before our eyes, we should hear and come to Christ: Suppose we saw with our eyes for twenty or thirty years together, a great furnace of fire, of the quantity of the whole earth, and saw there, Cain, Judas, Ahitophel, Saul, and all the damned, as lumps of red fire, and they boiling and louping for pain in a dungeon of everlasting brimstone, and the black and terrible devils with