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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.
Object. 1But if so be that prayers must be fervent, even to vocal crying and shouting, then I cannot pray, who am often so confounded, that I cannot speak one word. Ans. So was the servant of God, in a Spiritual kind of praying, in uttering the Psal. 77. when he saith v. 4. Thou holdest mine eyes waking, I am so troubled that I cannot speak; yea groaning goeth for praying to God, Psal. 102.20. The Lord looked down from heaven, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, Rom. 8.26. The spirit intercedeth for us, [Greek or Hebrew] with sighs that none can speak. Faith doth sigh prayers to heaven, Christ receiveth sighs in his censure for Prayer: words are but the body, the garment,2 the outside of Prayer, sighs are nearer the heart-work, a dumb beggar getteth an alms at Christs gates, even by making signs, when his tongue cannot plead for him, and the rather because he is dumb.
Object. 1But if so be that prayers must bee fervent, even to vocal crying and shouting, then I cannot pray, who am often so confounded, that I cannot speak one word. Ans. So was the servant of God, in a Spirituall kind of praying, in uttering the Psal. 77. when he saith v. 4. Thou holdest mine eyes waking, I am so troubled that I cannot speak; yea groaning goeth for praying to God, Psal. 102.20. The Lord looked down from heaven, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, Rom. 8.26. The spirit intercedeth for us, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 with sighes that none can speak. Faith doth sigh prayers to heaven, Christ receiveth sighs in his censure for Prayer: words are but the body, the garment,