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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.
What desires hath the Spirit and Bride to hear when the Husband Christ shall say to the mighty Angels, Make you ready for the journey, let us go down and divide the skies, and bow the heaven; I'll gather my prisoners of hope into me, I can want my Rachael and her weeping children no longer; Behold I come quickly to judge the Nations: The Bride the Lambs wife blesseth the feet of the Messengers that preacheth such tiding, Rejoice O Zion, put on thy beautiful garments, thy King is coming: yea, she loveth that quarter of the Sky that being rent asunder and cloven, shall yield to her husband, when he shall put through his glorious hand, and shall come riding on the Rain bow and clouds to receive her to himself.
What desires hath the Spirit and Bride to hear when the Husband Christ shal say to the mighty Angels, Make you ready for the journey, let us go down and divide the skies, and bow the heaven; I'le gather my prisoners of hope into me, I can want my Rachael and her weeping children no longer; Behold I come quickly to judge the Nations: The Bride the Lambs wife blesseth the feet of the Messengers that preacheth such tiding, Rejoice O Zion, put on thy beautifull garments, thy King is coming: yea, she loveth that quarter of the Skie that being rent asunder and cloven, shall yield to her husband, when he shall put through his glorious hand, and shall come riding on the Raine bow and clouds to receive her to himself.
The condition of the people of God in the three Kingdoms calleth for this, that we now wisely consider what the Lord is doing; there is a Language of the Lords fire in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem; If we could understand the voice of the crying Rod: The Arrows of God flee beyond us, and beside us, but we see little of God in them. We Sail, but we see not shore, we fight, but we have no Victory, the efficacy of second causes is the whole burden of the business, and this burden we lay upon creatures (and its more then they can bear) and not upon the Lord; God is crying lameness on creatures and multitude, that his eminency of working may be more seen. 2. Many are friends to the success of Reformation, not to Reformation; Mens Faith go along with the promises, until Providence seem to them to belie the promise: through light at a key-hole many see God in these confusions in the three Kingdoms, but they fall away, because their joining with the Cause was violent kindness to Christ; it is not a friends visit to be driven to a friends house to be dry in a shower, and then occasionally to visit wife and children; Christ hath too many occasional friends, but the ground of all is this; I love Jesus Christ, but I have not the gift of burning-quick for Christ: O how securely should Faith land us, out of the Gun-shot of the prevailing power of a black